Hjalmar Poelzig: Come, Vitus, are we men or are we children?


--Boris Karloff (as Hjalmar Poelzig) in The Black Cat

Hjalmar Poelzig: The phone is dead. Do you hear that, Vitus? Even the phone is dead.


--Boris Karloff (as Hjalmar Poelzig) in The Black Cat

Hjalmar Poelzig: Vitus! Your are mad.


--Boris Karloff (as Hjalmar Poelzig) in The Black Cat

Hjalmar Poelzig: You say your soul was killed, that you have been dead all these years. And what of me? Did we not both die here in Marmorus 15 years ago? Are we any the less victims of the war than those whose bodies were torn asunder? Are we not both the living dead? And now you come to me, playing at being an avenging angel, childishly thirsting for my blood. We understand each other too well. We know too much of life.


--Boris Karloff (as Hjalmar Poelzig) in The Black Cat

Imhotep: [to Helen Grosvenor dressed as his beloved Princess Anck-es-en-Amon] It was not only this body I loved, it was thy soul. I destroy this lifeless thing! Thou shall take its place but for a few moments and then... RISE again, even as I have risen!


--Boris Karloff (as Imhotep) in The Mummy

Imhotep: Anck-es-en-Amon, my love has lasted longer than the temples of our gods. No man ever suffered as I did for you.


--Boris Karloff (as Imhotep) in The Mummy

Imhotep: Excuse me... I dislike being touched... an Eastern prejudice.


--Boris Karloff (as Imhotep) in The Mummy

Imhotep: You will not remember what I show you now, and yet I shall awaken memories of love... and crime... and death...


--Boris Karloff (as Imhotep) in The Mummy

James Rankin: I'm sorry, Barbara, but a man must do the work in which he believes!


--Boris Karloff (as James Rankin) in The Haunted Strangler

James Rankin: You mean he killed while in some sort of trance?


--Boris Karloff (as James Rankin) in The Haunted Strangler