The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
Lon Chaney: The Phantom
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Quotes
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The Phantom : [Christine sees a casket in the room] That is where I sleep. It keeps me reminded of that other dreamless sleep that cures all ills - forever!
Christine Daae : You - You are the Phantom!
The Phantom : If I am the Phantom, it is because man's hatred has made me so. If I shall be saved, it will be because your love redeems me.
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The Phantom : [title card] She is singing to bring down the chandelier!
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The Phantom : [title card]
[at the Bal Masque as "The Red Death"]
The Phantom : Beneath your dancing feet are the tombs of tortured men! Thus does The Red Death rebuke your merriment!
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The Phantom : [title card] Feast your eyes! Glut your soul on my accursed ugliness!
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The Phantom : [title card] Did you hear voices?
[Christine shakes her head]
The Phantom : [title card] Perhaps we have more callers.
Title Card : Heat - Intolerable heat!
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The Phantom : [title card] If you turn the Scorpion - you have said 'Yes' and spared de Chagny. Turn the grasshopper - - and the Opera House is blown to a thousand bits!
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The Phantom : [title card] What do you offer for their lives? Your answer quick - they can survive but a few moments!
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The Phantom : [title card]
[after having drowned Raoul's brother]
The Phantom : The callers have departed.
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The Phantom : [title card] Christine, tonight I placed the world at your feet!
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The Phantom : [title card] She has betrayed me!
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The Phantom : Men once knew me as Erik, but for many years I have lived in these cellars, a nameless legend.
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The Phantom : You are in no peril as long as you do not touch my mask.
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The Phantom : Look not upon my mask - think rather of my devotion which has brought you the gift of song.
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The Phantom : I am human like other men - I will not be cheated of my happiness!
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The Phantom : [to Christine] I have brought you here - five cellars underground - because I love you! For long weary months I have awaited this hour! So that which is good within me, aroused by your purity, might plead for your love.
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The Phantom : Since first I saw your face, this music has been singing to me of you and of - love triumphant! Yet listen - there sounds an ominous undercurrent of warning!
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The Phantom : No longer like a toad in these foul cellars will I secrete the venom of hatred - for you shall bring me love!