Prince Prospero: 33 Movie Quotes with Audio

Updated: Aug 6, 2026

Movie quotes spoken by Prince Prospero, ranked by user ratings. Listen online or download free MP3 and WAV clips.

1 Hush. Listen. The passing of time, the beating of a heart, the footstep of an assassin. Destiny.

Vincent Price in The Masque of the Red Death

2 Can you look around this world and believe in the goodness of a god who rules it?

Vincent Price in The Masque of the Red Death

3 No. If a god of love and light ever did exist, he is long since dead. Someone, something rules in his place.

Vincent Price in The Masque of the Red Death

4 But Satan rules the universe. I made a pact with him.

Vincent Price in The Masque of the Red Death

5 Do you know how a falcon is trained, my dear? Her eyes are sewn shut. Blinded temporarily, she suffers the whims of her god patiently until her will is submerged and she learns to serve.

Vincent Price in The Masque of the Red Death

6 But then is Satan a god of hate? -Oh, no. Of reality, of truth.

Vincent Price as Prince Prospero; Jane Asher as Francesca in The Masque of the Red Death

7 A celebration, my friends. A celebration of victory over death, of evil over good.

Vincent Price in The Masque of the Red Death

8 But the wells and the streams, they'll be frozen over. There's no food. -Then store up nuts, like the squirrels.

Vincent Price in The Masque of the Red Death

9 Is it to awaken and hear the passing of time or is it the failing beat of your own heart?

Vincent Price in The Masque of the Red Death

10 You do little but eat and swill and dream of other things. How like a pig you are. Be one.

Vincent Price in The Masque of the Red Death