Isle of the Dead (1945)

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Hear the most memorable quotes from the classic 1945 horror film Isle of the Dead, with sound bites!

Actors: Boris Karloff (General Pherides), Ellen Drew (Thea), Marc Cramer (Oliver Davis), Katherine Emery (Mrs. Mary St. Aubyn), Jason Robards Sr. (Aubrecht), Ernst Deutsch (Dr. Drossos), Helene Thimig (Madame Kyra)

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1 The symptoms are wavering gait, convulsions, weakness, sometimes blindness, and then death, always death. Always death, and very quickly.
2 It may be an ill omen to sing in a cemetery, but there's no law against it.
3 It's better to have no General than one carrying the plague.
4 Laws can be wrong and laws can be cruel, and the people who live only by the law are both wrong and cruel.
5 Thank you. To believe, to pray, even if only to some pagan god, so long as belief is there, it brings comfort.
6 The doctor is the doctor, and we'll do as he says. -Certainly. But one might as well go out on the cliff, and build a votive fire to Hermes. Not that I believe in Hermes, either.
7 The horseman on the pale horse is pestilence. He follows the wars.
8 The soldiers are exhausted. Why don't you use horses? -Horses cannot understand why they have to work beyond endurance for their country. But the men understand.
9 We'll make a wager. The doctor can use his science, I'll pray to Hermes. We'll see who dies and who is saved.
10 A fool's courage. Fight death all your days then die, knowing you know nothing.
 
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