- Jenny Williams: Even a man who is pure in heart and says his prayers by night, may become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms and the autumn moon is bright.
- Larry Talbot: [after hearing it twice already] You know that one too, eh?
- [last lines]
- Maleva: The way you walked was thorny though no fault of your own, but as the rain enters the soil, the river enters the sea, so tears run to a predestined end. Now you will have peace for eternity.
- Col. Paul Montford, chief constable: The wolf must have attacked her and Larry came to the rescue. I'm sorry, Sir John.
- Gwen Conliffe: [Dismayed] Larry!
- Sir John Talbot: All astronomers are amateurs. When it comes to the heavens, there's only one professional.
- Maleva: The way you walked was thorny, through no fault of your own, but as the rain enters the soil, the river enters the sea, so tears run to a predestined end. Your suffering is over, Bela my son. Now you will find peace.
- Maleva: You are not frightened, are you, Sir John?
- Sir John Talbot: Frightened, of what?
- Maleva: Of the night.
- Sir John Talbot: Rubbish. You startled me.
- Maleva: Don't be startled, Sir John. You have the silver cane for protection.
- Sir John Talbot: Who are you?
- Maleva: Hasn't your son told you?
- Sir John Talbot: You're the gypsy that's been filling his mind with this werewolf nonsense!
- Gwen Conliffe: [Gwen and Larry are taking a moonlight walk] So you're a fortune teller?
- Larry Talbot: Uh-huh.
- Gwen Conliffe: Is that how you knew about the earrings?
- Larry Talbot: Well, no exactly. You see, a telescope has a mighty sharp eye. It brings the stars so close that you feel you can almost touch them.
- Gwen Conliffe: [shocked] A telescope?
- Larry Talbot: Sure. And it does the same thing to people in their rooms - that is if you point it in the right direction.
- Gwen Conliffe: Oh you wouldn't.
- Larry Talbot: Well, now, I was only testing the refractor. I didn't know about you and all of sudden there you were.
- Gwen Conliffe: From now on I'll be sure to draw the curtains.
- Larry Talbot: Oh, don't do that, I mean, not on account of me.
- [stumbling]
- Larry Talbot: I mean, well, you know what I mean.
- Gwen Conliffe: [grinning] Yes, I'm afraid I do.
- Maleva: You killed the wolf.
- Larry Talbot: Well, there's no crime in that is there?
- Maleva: The wolf was Bela.
- Larry Talbot: You think I don't know the difference between a wolf and a man?
- Maleva: Bela turned into a wolf and you killed him. A werewolf can only be killed by a silver bullet, or a silver knife...
- [looks down at Larry's walking stick]
- Maleva: ...or a stick with a silver handle.
- Larry Talbot: You're insane! I tell you, I killed a wolf! A PLAIN, ORDINARY WOLF!
- Sir John Talbot: You've been preying upon his gullibility with your witch's tales.
- Maleva: But you fixed him, didn't you, Sir John? You don't believe the witch's tales, do you?
- Sir John Talbot: Not for a minute.
- Maleva: Then where were you going, Sir John? Why aren't you back there, at the shooting stand?
- Sir John Talbot: I was.
- Maleva: Were you hurrying back to the castle? Did you have a moment's doubt? Were you hurrying to make sure he's all right?
- Sir John Talbot: I wanted to be with my son. I was going back...
- [a rifle fires in the distance]
- Maleva: Yes, Sir John, you were going. Hurry, Sir John, hurry.
- Col. Paul Montford, chief constable: [after shooting at the Wolf Man] I Could've swore I hit him dead on.
- Frank Andrews: And I to.
- Doctor Lloyd: [Grins] have you forgotten it takes a silver bullet to kill a werewolf.
- Sir John Talbot: Larry, to some people, life is very simple. They decide that this is good, that is bad. This is wrong, that's right. There's no right in wrong, no good in bad. No shadings and greys, all blacks and whites.
- Larry Talbot: That'd be Paul Montford.
- Sir John Talbot: Exactly. Now others of us find that good, bad, right, wrong, are many-sided, complex things. We try to see every side but the more we see, the less sure we are. Now you asked me if I believe a man can become a wolf. If you mean "Can it take on physical traits of an animal?" No, it's fantastic. However, I do believe that most anything can happen to a man in his own mind.
- Col. Paul Montford, chief constable: Just imagine having a stuffed werewolf staring at you from the wall!
- Larry Talbot: You wouldn't wanna run away with a murderer wouldja?
- Gwen Conliffe: Oh Larry, you're not. You know you're not.
- Larry Talbot: I killed Bela. I killed Richardson. If I stay here any longer, you can't tell who'll be next.
- Sir John Talbot: You can't run away.
- Larry Talbot: That's it! That's what she said.
- Sir John Talbot: Who?
- Larry Talbot: The gypsy woman.
- Sir John Talbot: Gypsy woman? Now we're getting down to it. She's been filling your mind with this gibberish. This talk of werewolves and pentagrams. You're not a child Larry, you're a grown man and you believe in the superstitions of a Gypsy woman!
- Maleva: For a thousand years we Gypsies have buried our dead like that. I couldn't break the custom even if I wanted to.
- Rev. Norman: Fighting against superstition is as hard as fighting against Satan himself.
- Maleva: [Larry shows Maleva his chest wound concealed under his shirt] Go now - and heaven help you!
- Col. Paul Montford, chief constable: [showing Larry's stick to him] Is this your walking stick?
- Larry Talbot: Why, yes. That's the stick I killed the wolf with.
- [Sir John Talbot and Col. Montford look at Larry with great concern]
- Sir John Talbot: Larry, Bela the gypsy was killed last night. Your walking stick was found next to the body.
- Larry Talbot: You mean, Bela the fortune teller? But... I only saw a wolf.
- Larry Talbot: [on hearing the word "lycanthropy"] Oh, it's all Greek to me!
- Sir John Talbot: Well, it is Greek.
- Sir John Talbot: Yes, that's the sign of the werewolf.
- Larry Talbot: That's just a legend though, isn't it?
- Sir John Talbot: Yes, but like most legends, it must have some basis in fact. It's probably an ancient explanation of the dual personality in each of us. How does it go? "Even a man who is pure in heart and says his prayers by night may become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms and Autumn moon is bright."
- Rev. Norman: But my dear Maleva, we can't bury this man without prayer.
- Maleva: There is nothing to pray for, sir. Bela has entered a much better world than this. At least, so your ministers always say, sir.
- Rev. Norman: And so it is. But that's no reason to hold a pagan celebration. I hear your people are coming to town dancing and singing and making merry.
- Maleva: For a thousand years, we Gypsies have buried our dead like that. I couldn't break the custom even if I wanted to.
- Rev. Norman: Fighting against superstition is as hard as fighting against Satan himself.
- Larry Talbot: Don't try to make me believe that I killed a man when I know that I killed a wolf!
- Doctor Lloyd: [patronizing Larry] Yes, yes. We're all a little bit confused.
- Frank Andrews: [to Gwen about Larry] There's something very tragic about that man... and I'm sure that nothing but harm will come to you through him.
- Col. Paul Montford, chief constable: [investigating the scene where Bela was killed] What's this?
- Twiddle: A stick with a horse's-head handle.
- Col. Paul Montford, chief constable: It's not a horse's head. That's a wolf's head. Make a note of that, Twiddle.
- Maleva: Whoever is bitten by a werewolf and lives becomes a werewolf himself.
- Larry Talbot: Ah, don't hand me that. You're just wasting your time.
- Maleva: The wolf bit you, didn't he?
- Larry Talbot: Yeah. Yeah he did!
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