Dr. Phibes Quotes in The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)

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Dr. Phibes Quotes:

  • Dr. Vesalius: Your wife, no, Phibes, but *you* I *will* kill!

    Dr. Phibes: But you can't, Doctor: I-AM-AL-REA-DY... DEAD. Your son needs you.

  • Dr. Phibes: I will have killed nine times in my life, Dr. Vesalius; how many murders can be attributed to you?

    Dr. Vesalius: None, for I did not kill your wife!

    Dr. Phibes: No?

    Dr. Vesalius: I tried to save her...

    Dr. Phibes: With a knife in your hands? Doctor, I have no faith in your profession! I was told, after my crash that I would never speak again. The doctors were, of course, wrong, for as you see and can hear, I have used my knowledge of music and acoustics to re-create my voice!

    Dr. Vesalius: You don't need to remind me of your ingenuity, Dr. Phibes... WHERE IS MY SON?

  • Dr. Phibes: [to Vesalius, after Phibes has kidnapped Lem] Nine killed her; nine shall die! Eight have died, soon to be nine! Nine eternities in doom! The organ plays till midnight! The large house in Maldene Square. Come alone!

  • Dr. Phibes: Vulnavia, my work is almost complete. Go and destroy all that I have created.

  • Dr. Phibes: You will see your son, under conditions that may bring back memories to you, Doctor. You need not be alarmed, he's already been anaesthetized.

  • Dr. Phibes: My love, sweet Queen and noble wife. I alone remain to bring delivery of your pain. Severed my darling, too quickly from this life. Of fires drawn and memories met, I shall hold our two hearts again in single time. Nine killed you. Nine shall die. Nine times, nine! Nine killed you! Nine shall die! Nine eternities in DOOM!

  • Dr. Phibes: [from trailer] What lovely music for a murder... or two... or three... or nine.

  • Dr. Phibes: [from trailer] Ladies and gentlemen, I want you to meet a dear friend.

  • Dr. Phibes: [from trailer] Are you ready for Dr. Phibes? Hmm?

  • Dr. Phibes: [from trailer] Dr. Phibes who samples the finer things in life in his own imitable way and experiments with fascinating instruments of death.

  • Dr. Phibes: Work faster, Doctor! The acid is descending! My wife existed only six minutes on the operating table, and then she was dead. You murdered her...

    Dr. Vesalius: No!

    Dr. Phibes: *MURDERED HER*... But *he* will have what *she* did not: a second chance!

  • Dr. Phibes: My love, my sweet Queen, my noble wife. Severed, too quickly, too cruelly from this life. I remain and suffer to bring delivery of your pain. Of fires drawn and memories met, soon we shall hold our two precious hearts in single time.

  • Dr. Phibes: [from the poster] Love means never having to say you're ugly.

  • Dr. Phibes: I am protecting you, Victoria, from those who would discover us. I shall eliminate them all, one by one, my love. Yes, even Beiderbeck himself, if need be.

  • Dr. Phibes: Dear girl, man the machine.

  • Dr. Phibes: The devil take me? Not for some considerable time, I trust.

  • Dr. Phibes: I too have searched, Beiderbeck, but not for myself. For my Victoria. I offer you the same goal, the life of your beloved. But hurry. When the bough breaks, my friend...

    Biederbeck: It could be a trick. Why should I trust you of all people?

    Dr. Phibes: Not me. The ancient artisans who built these chambers. When the gates are unlocked, the water from Diana's pool will drain out and she will be free. Save her! Don't be a fool. Soon it will be too late.

    Biederbeck: For whom?

    Dr. Phibes: For us all, especially Diana. Every second brings her closer to a terrible death. Can you pay that price, Beiderbeck? The key!

    Biederbeck: The devil take you, Phibes.

  • Dr. Phibes: I call on you once more, Vulnavia, come my trusted aide.

    [Vulnavia appears]

    Dr. Phibes: Thank you, my dear, for answering my call. Upstairs, in my safe, is a most precious map of papyrus. The way to a pharaoh's tomb! Beneath which flows, each two thousand years, the River of Life. We must make haste and find the river at its flood

  • Dr. Phibes: Sleep on, my sweet Victoria, for regal claws of noble birds guard well your place of rest. For those poor fools that dare intrude, the penalty is death.

  • Dr. Phibes: It is a pity in a way. We have so much in common.

    Biederbeck: You flatter yourself.

    Dr. Phibes: I think not. For years I have had one terrible obsession - to find the river of life once used by the pharaohs of Egypt. It lies beyond those gates, a river that gives new life, again and again and again.

    Biederbeck: Why do you think I came here?

    Dr. Phibes: You have all the life you need.

    Biederbeck: No more, Phibes. The elixir that gave my life for a hundred years is gone. It has suspended time and age, but no more.

    Dr. Phibes: How long? How many years?

    Biederbeck: Too long to remember. Too long to throw it all away now!

  • Biederbeck: Phibes!

    Dr. Phibes: So, at last we meet, Beiderbeck.

    Biederbeck: Where's Diana?

    Dr. Phibes: Waiting, as we all must wait.

  • Dr. Phibes: Oh, what happy times of years ago I think of, Victoria. It won't be long now. Soon you will be moving, breathing. Thy in my arms again and I in yours.

  • Dr. Phibes: So once more I have been forced to kill for you, Victoria. Only that you may live again, my noble wife.

  • Dr. Phibes: No force in all the world can stop us now!

  • Dr. Phibes: Victoria, for three years I have rested by your side. Now the moon has risen to the exact position which last occurred two thousand years ago, signaling the opening of this crypt, and the beginning of our greatest adventure. We shall embark to the land of Egypt, where years ago I did prepare for us a wondrous shrine. I shall search for the river of life, which holds the key to resurrection for you and eternal life for both of us.

  • Dr. Phibes: No! While I slept in sweet oblivion, who dared destroy my house? The safe. Could it still be here?

    [he checks and finds it is empty]

    Dr. Phibes: What fiend has taken it? Only one who seeks eternal life as I do... Beiderbeck!

  • Nick Castle: Do you feel that?

    Dr. Phibes: I'll tell you what happened...

    Nick Castle: It just got cold in here.

  • Dr. Phibes: You see the water acts like ice. A whole body would take a year to decompose, longer if it was down far enough, cold enough.

    Nick Castle: But he was on the boat. He was below decks.

    Dr. Phibes: No. Dick Baxter died in the ocean. Remember last October those three kids that went diving for that old boat off the point? We got to 'em, they'd been down a week, maybe ten days. I swear to you right now, he's been down longer.

  • [Dr. Phibes is recording his examination of Dick Baxter's body]

    Dr. Phibes: Evidence of deep penetrating wounds into each ocular orbit, entering into the cranial cavity. Also jagged lacerations to the face. The right area of his throat has been crushed. Thorax has been crushed and the lungs are filled with fluid.

  • [the pathologist, Dr. Phibes, has just examined the body of Dick Baxter]

    Dr. Phibes: What the hell happened out there?

    Nick Castle: There was rust all over everything. It was like the boat had been out there a long time, taking on water. He was down below, near the bunks.

    Dr. Phibes: Nick, his wounds are covered with algae, his lungs are full, and there's silt under his fingernails. I tell ya, I saw Dick Baxter three days ago in Salinas. Now he's lying there on the table looking like he's been underwater for a month!

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