The Ninth Gate Quotes

Baroness Kessler: My latest work: "The Devil: History and Myth" - a kind of biography. It will be published next year.
Dean Corso: Why the devil?
Baroness Kessler: [laughs] I saw him one day. I was fifteen years old, and I saw him as plain as I see you now: cutaway, top hat, cane. Very elegant, very handsome. It was love at first sight.
Dean Corso: 300 years ago, that would get you burned at the stake.
Baroness Kessler: 300 years ago I wouldn't have said it!


Liana Telfer: Don't fuck with me!
Dean Corso: I thought I just did.


Boris Balkan: [Crashing the black mass] Mumbo Jumbo! Mumbo Jumbo!
[shouts]
Boris Balkan: MUMBO JUMBO! Mumbo Jumbo!


Boris Balkan: Nothing is more reliable than a man whose loyalties can be bought with hard cash.


Ceniza: Even Hell has its heroes, señor.


Liana Telfer: You work for money I take it.
Dean Corso: What else?
Liana Telfer: I have a great deal of money.
Dean Corso: I'm very happy for you.


Bernie: I told him I had nothing to do with this operation.
Dean Corso: Nothing except your ten percent.
Bernie: Twenty. The Swiss is my client, remember.
Dean Corso: [shakes his head] No deal.
Bernie: Fifteen. For my children's sake.
Dean Corso: You don't have any.
Bernie: I'm still young. Give me time.
Dean Corso: [expels a lungful of smoke, unmoved] Ten.


[first lines]
Dean Corso: It's an impressive collection. You have some very rare editions here. Are you sure you want to sell them all?
Old Man's Son: They're of no use to father. Not anymore. Not since he's been this way. His library was his whole world. Now it's just a feeble memory.


Boris Balkan: You must see her again.
Dean Corso: Are you kidding? Have you seen her secretary?
Boris Balkan: Try the lunch break.


Boris Balkan: Look around you all what do you see? A bunch of buffoons parading around in fancy dress. You think the prince of Darkness would deign to manifest himself before the likes of you? He never has and he never will! Never


[last lines]
Boris Balkan: It's miraculous I feel nothing! Nothing at all.


Boris Balkan: Behold I plunge my hands in fire I feel no heat
Dean Corso: That's just great! Give us another.


Dean Corso: Where's the last engraving? I want it!
The Girl: You're running out of fuel


Dean Corso: [indicating to the engravings] You killed for those! They're worth more than money
Boris Balkan: Infinitely more! But they happen to be mine... not yours!


Boris Balkan: [performing the ceremony] Now you can watch! You can't come with me... I must travel alone but you can look on and marvel.
Dean Corso: That's very kind of you.
Boris Balkan: Indeed it is. There have been men who have been burned alive or disemboweled for a glimpse of what you are about to witness.


Boris Balkan: Corso!
Dean Corso: What did you expect? An apparition?
Boris Balkan: You're not wanted here Corso... LEAVE
Dean Corso: I'm the only apparition you'll see here tonight


Dean Corso: [pulls Liana's gun on him] Stand aside.
Boris Balkan: I credited you with more finesse.
Dean Corso: You heard me. Stand back!
Boris Balkan: Put that away. It's not you're style.
[upon overpowering him and shoving him into a hole in the floor]
Boris Balkan: It seems you found you're proper niche at last... I like that.


Boris Balkan: [reciting the secret meaning of the illustrations] To travel in silence / by a long and circuitous route, / To brave the arrows of misfortune / and fear neither noose nor fire, / To play the greatest of all games / and win, foregoing no expense / is to mock the vicissitudes of Fate / and gain at last the key / that will unlock the Ninth Gage.


Boris Balkan: [speaking of the engravings in 'The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows'] They form a kind of satanic riddle. Correctly interpreted with the aid of the original text and sufficient inside information, they are reputed to conjure up the Prince of Darkness in person.