Sleepy Hollow Quotes (1999)
Ichabod Crane: We take the Indian Trail to the Tree of the Dead.
Young Masbath: How will we recognize it?
Ichabod Crane: Without difficulty, I rather fear. Then climb down to the Horseman’s resting place.
Young Masbath: His camp?
Ichabod Crane: His grave.
Ichabod Crane: Yes I think you loved me that day when you followed me into the Western Woods… to have braved such peril.
Lady Van Tassel: You’re just in time to have your head cut off.
[Regarding a spider]
Ichabod Crane: Kill it! No, no! Stun it!
Baltus Van Tassel: There is a conspiracy here, and I will seek it out!
Lady Van Tassel: Still alive?
Ichabod Crane: Run, Katrina.
Lady Van Tassel: Yes, do run, and jump, and skip.
Katrina Anne Van Tassel: I think you have no heart. And I had a mind once to give you mine.
Lady Van Tassel: The easiest part was the first. To enter your home as your mother’s sick-nurse and put her body into the grave and mine into the marriage bed.
Ichabod Crane: [to the Western Woods Crone] I should like to say that I make no assumptions about your occupation nor your ways, Witch… which… which… which are nothing to me, whatever you are.
Ichabod Crane: [opens the book] It was your mother’s?
Katrina Anne Van Tassel: Keep it close to your heart. It’s sure protection against harm.
Ichabod Crane: Are you so certain of everything?
Samuel Philipse: Five victims in four graves.
Ichabod Crane: The millennium is almost upon us. In a few months, we will be living in the nineteenth century. But our courts continue to rely on medieval devices of torture.
High Constable: Stand down.
Ichabod Crane: I stand up for sense and justice.
Katrina Anne Van Tassel: Will you take nothing from Sleepy Hollow that was worth the coming here?
Ichabod Crane: No. No, not nothing.
[pauses]
Ichabod Crane: A kiss, from a lovely young woman, before she saw my face or knew my name.
Katrina Anne Van Tassel: Yes, without sense or reason.
Young Masbath: Is he dead?
Ichabod Crane: That’s the problem. He was dead to begin with.
Katrina Anne Van Tassel: I have shed my tears for Brom… and yet my heart is not broken. Do you think me wicked?
Ichabod Crane: No… but perhaps there is a little bit of witch in you, Katrina.
Katrina Anne Van Tassel: Why do you say that?
Ichabod Crane: Because you have bewitched me.
Ichabod Crane: Villainy wears many masks, none of which so dangerous as virtue…
Ichabod Crane: It was a headless horseman.
Baltus Van Tassel: You must not excite yourself.
Ichabod Crane: But it was a headless horseman.
Baltus Van Tassel: Of course it was. That’s why you’re here.
Ichabod Crane: No, you must believe me. It was a horseman, a dead one. Headless.
Baltus Van Tassel: I know, I know.
Ichabod Crane: You don’t know because you were not there. It’s all true.
Baltus Van Tassel: Of course it is. I told you. Everyone told you.
Ichabod Crane: I… saw him. [faints]
Ichabod Crane: [the decapitated corpse of Masbath has been found] You have moved the body.
Dr. Thomas Lancaster: I did.
Ichabod Crane: You must never move the body!
Dr. Thomas Lancaster: Why not?
Ichabod Crane: Because…
[after escaping from the burning windmill and the Horseman]
Young Masbath: Is he…dead?
Ichabod Crane: That’s the problem. He was dead to begin with.
Dr. Thomas Lancaster: This is most irregular, Constable.
Ichabod Crane: I should hope so, Doctor, but in this case necessary. I shall need to operate.
Dr. Thomas Lancaster: Operate? She’s dead.
Ichabod Crane: Of course, when I say operate, I mean I shall need to use the operating table
Ichabod Crane: Katrina, why are you in my room?
Katrina Anne Van Tassel: Because it is yours.
Lady Van Tassel: Dear stepdaughter… You look as if you’ve seen a ghost.
Ichabod Crane: We have murders in New York without benefit of ghouls and goblins.
Baltus Van Tassel: You are a long way from New York, constable.
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