Magda: [to Miranda] You mustn't take me seriously, Miss. No one ever does. - Spring Byington (as Magda) in Dragonwyck (1946)

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Magda: You like it here? Miranda Wells: [defensive] Of *course* I do! Magda: Of course you do. You like being waited on - I could see tonight it was your first time. You like peaches out of season. You like the feel of silk sheets against your young body... And one day you'll wish with all your heart you'd never come to Dragonwyck! - Spring Byington (as Magda) in Dragonwyck (1946)

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Abigail Wells: [talking about Miranda] Sometimes when a woman's unhappy, she just can't talk about it, Ephraim. Ephraim Wells: Are you gonna tell me it's a man? What man I'd like to know? She's given frostbite to every mother's son in the country. Abigail Wells: Perhaps the right man hasn't come along. Ephraim Wells: No, she won't find find him with her nose in the air, wanting what she can't get! A woman oughta get a man first and then want him! - Walter Huston (as Ephraim Wells) in Dragonwyck (1946)

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Johanna Van Ryn: What can you possibly do up there? Nicholas Van Ryn: Possibly? Anything from pinning butterflies to hiding an insane twin brother. Actually, I read. I hope that my explanation satisfies you? - Vincent Price (as Nicholas Van Ryn) in Dragonwyck (1946)

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Miranda Wells: [inquiring about Nicholas' grandparents] Did they fall in love at first sight? Nicholas Van Ryn: No Van Ryn does anything at first sight. - Vincent Price (as Nicholas Van Ryn) in Dragonwyck (1946)

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Miranda Wells: But there's everything here you could possibly want! Ephraim Wells: Everything is what no man should ever want. - Walter Huston (as Ephraim Wells) in Dragonwyck (1946)

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Miranda Wells: Nicholas - you do believe in God? Nicholas Van Ryn: I believe in myself, and I am answerable to myself! I will not live according to printed mottoes like the directions on a medicine bottle! - Vincent Price (as Nicholas Van Ryn) in Dragonwyck (1946)

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Miranda Wells: The breeze feels wonderful against my face. Nicholas Van Ryn: The breeze must feel wonderful indeed with a face as beautiful as yours against it. - Vincent Price (as Nicholas Van Ryn) in Dragonwyck (1946)

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Nicholas Van Ryn: [dying words] That's right. Take off your hats in the presence of the patroon. - Vincent Price (as Nicholas Van Ryn) in Dragonwyck (1946)

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Nicholas Van Ryn: [to Miranda] To my wife promptness at meals is the greatest human virtue. - Vincent Price (as Nicholas Van Ryn) in Dragonwyck (1946)

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