Henry Sturgess Quotes in Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012)

[last lines]

Henry Sturgess: A guy only gets that drunk when he wants to kiss a girl or kill a man. So which is it?

Henry Sturgess: I'd like you to chop this tree down, in a single swing.

Abraham Lincoln: That tree? It's got to be more than a foot across. That's impossible.

Henry Sturgess: But it isn't a tree. It's what you hate most in the world. So tell me, Mr. Lincoln: what do you hate?

Abraham Lincoln: I hate Jack Barts.

Henry Sturgess: [motions to the tree] Then strike him down.

[Abe swings, chopping into the tree, but fails to cut it down]

Henry Sturgess: Well, clearly you don't hate him that much. What do you *really* hate?

Abraham Lincoln: [swings, but again the tree stays upright] I hate that my mother was taken away.

Henry Sturgess: Inadequate.

Abraham Lincoln: [swings] I hate that we were afraid.

Henry Sturgess: And?

Abraham Lincoln: [swings] That my mother, father, everyone that we knew, lived in fear!

Henry Sturgess: Pathetic.

Abraham Lincoln: [swings] I hate that I was too small!

Henry Sturgess: Weak.

Abraham Lincoln: Yes!

Henry Sturgess: And that you failed.

Abraham Lincoln: Yes!

Henry Sturgess: To protect her.

Abraham Lincoln: Yes!

Henry Sturgess: That you... Let her die.

[With a roar, Abe swings, chopping straight through the trunk of the tree and toppling it to the ground. Abe looks stunned]

Henry Sturgess: Power, Lincoln, *real* power, comes not from hate, but from truth.

Henry Sturgess: [about the weapons] So, Abe... which one takes your fancy?

Abraham Lincoln: Actually, I haven't had the best luck with shooting irons.

[catches sight of an axe on a stump outside]

Abraham Lincoln: But... I was a rail splitter.

[from trailer]

Henry Sturgess: If vengeance is all you seek, you will never be able to save mankind. Fight this war with me, not for one man but for the whole world... Mr President.

Abraham Lincoln: [after Henry has saved Abraham and Will from falling train] Thank you, Henry. I suppose... some vampires CAN be trusted.

Henry Sturgess: As can some men, Abraham.

[pauses]

Henry Sturgess: If the train was a decoy, where is the silver?

Will Johnson: This isn't the only railroad.

Abraham Lincoln: [Henry nods, Abraham grins knowingly] A wise man once taught me... always have a contingency plan.

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire are just myths.

Henry Sturgess: Myths don't beat you senseless after you've put a bullet in their brain!

Abraham Lincoln: My mother was murdered.

Henry Sturgess: And if I teach you how to murder her murderer... so what? How will that honor her memory? How will that benefit the next boy whose mother was taken?

[Henry leads Abe to the cellar of his home, to test him on what he has learned]

Henry Sturgess: Before you protect others from darkness, you must first be able to protect yourself. Your enemies have the power to render themselves invisible. You must have the ability to fight blind. To see without seeing.

[He shuts the door, plunging the room into darkness. There are the sounds of grunts, blows landing and Abe moaning. The door opens, revealing Abe, coughing and bloody, crawling slowly towards the door as if to leave]

Abraham Lincoln: Again.

[He shuts the door]

[from trailer]

Henry Sturgess: There is darkness EVERYWHERE! You are not the only one who has lost everything!

Henry Sturgess: [to Lincoln at the bar] Haven't you had enough?... A boy only gets this drunk when he wants to kiss a girl... or kill a man.

Henry Sturgess: [in the bath with Gabriella as Lincoln bursts in] Might I suggest we begin by... closing the door.

Abraham Lincoln: [stammering as he backs out of the room] Y-y-yeah, I'm sorry... I didn't see anything!

Henry Sturgess: [coming out and walking through the house] Should we dive right in? Or were you finding Gabriella's egress too distracting?

Abraham Lincoln: I'm sorry, sir but who are you?

Henry Sturgess: Who I am is Henry Sturges. And where you are is my home. And what happened... I saved your life... during you rather pathetic attempt at taking another's.

Abraham Lincoln: What were you doing there and... how did you know I would try to kill Barts?

Henry Sturgess: How? I watched this boy carry out his first long-awaited mission. Drunk, I might add.

Henry Sturgess: [to Lincoln] You know I can restore the dead.

Mary Todd Lincoln: [entering the room] Do it... do it.

Abraham Lincoln: Mary...

Mary Todd Lincoln: Do it...

[to Lincoln]

Mary Todd Lincoln: Your journal... the one you always kept in your coat pocket... I know I shouldn't have, Abe, but I needed to know what you were hiding...

[to Henry]

Mary Todd Lincoln: If what you say is true, I beg you... give us our little boy back.

Abraham Lincoln: Mary, he wouldn't be our little boy. He would be something else, something terrible. Trust me, you don't want that.

Mary Todd Lincoln: You're asking me to trust you, after you lied to me for all these years?

Abraham Lincoln: I did it to protect you, to protect our family.

Henry Sturgess: You cannot take on slavery, Abraham! You cannot take on the whole south!

Abraham Lincoln: Why? Because of Adam?

Henry Sturgess: No!

Abraham Lincoln: Are you afraid of him?

Henry Sturgess: Because it is the only thing that has kept them sated all these years... and you take that away and no one is safe!

Henry Sturgess: [to Lincoln, about the offer to kill Barts] My services aren't for sale.

Henry Sturgess: [to Lincoln] If vengeance is all you seek, seek it elsewhere.

Henry Sturgess: [to Lincoln] I give you the targets. That was our deal.

Henry Sturgess: Vampires have been in the new world for centuries. Slaughtering native tribes and early settlers.