Laing Quotes in The Ghoul (1933)

Nigel Hartley: I happened to be staying in the neighborhood, and hearing of your master's illness I took the liberty of calling. How is he tonight?

Laing: He'll never see the morning.

Nigel Hartley: He has not asked for anyone of my cloth?

Laing: Nor will he. He's set in his ways, and they are the ways of the heathen.

Nigel Hartley: I know he won't see the rector, but though I'm a comparative stranger, I don't like to leave a man to die like that.

Laing: He'll die in his own fashion as he has lived.

Nigel Hartley: Still, sometimes at the end...

Laing: Not him! He's stubborn and unbending and will be so at the throne itself!

Prof. Morlant: You're afraid of me!

Laing: [Shakes his head] I'm afraid FOR you.

Prof. Morlant: [Referring to the jewel] If this should leave me, you'll have reason to fear... for when the full moon strikes the door of my tomb, I will come back. You hear? I will come back to kill!

Doctor: [referring to Morlant] What was the idea of bandaging his hand like that?

Laing: I cannot say. He had many a queer fancy.

Broughton: I advise you to be very careful, Laing.

Laing: I've a careful nature.

Broughton: You may be putting yourself perilously near dishonesty.

Laing: I've seen men nearer.

Laing: You know, Toby, when I was your age, I was always covered in something. Mud, jam, failure... My father never associated himself with anything dirty. Or real.

Toby: My father's up there.

Laing: You mean, in heaven?

Toby: Heaven isn't real, stupid.

Laing: [on the building] Prone to bouts of mania, narcissism and power failure.

Laing: [on Wilder] He's probably the sanest man in the building.

Laing: It's my paint!