Memorable quotes for
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939) More at IMDbPro »

Quasimodo, the bell-ringer: Ohh, you asked me why I saved you. I tried to carry you off, and the next day, you gave me a drink of water, and a little pity.
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Quasimodo, the bell-ringer: [half-laughing, half-weeping] I'm about as shapeless as the man in the moon!
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Quasimodo, the bell-ringer: [to one of the stone gargoyles] Why was I not made of stone - like thee?
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[Watching Esmeralda dance]
Louis XI, King of France: Doesn't she make your pulse beat faster?
The King's Physician: I'm a widower four times, sire, but I could begin all over again.
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Quasimodo, the bell-ringer: Sanctuary! Sanctuary!
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Clopin: Try to take a purse out of that pocket, but if one single bell jingles, you fail.
Gringoire: And then?
Clopin: And then you hang!
Gringoire: [pondering for a moment] Can you do it?
Clopin: I'm above that sort of thing. I cut throats. I don't cut purses.
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Clopin: [to Gringoire immediately following flogging of Quasimodo] Never trust a man with pinched nostrils and thin lips.
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Louis XI, King of France: Doctor, lend me half a livre.
The King's Physician: Half a livre?
Louis XI, King of France: Afraid I won't repay you?
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Witness to flogging: Our whipper could make him cry.
Witness to flogging: Are you saying you have a better whipper in Marseilles than we have in Paris?
Witness to flogging: Yes!
[they knock him off the steps]
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Gringoire: Your hands are like ice. You're not afraid are you?
Esmeralda: Not now oh Gringoire, Why did I ever come to paris?
Gringoire: Don't cry darling
Esmeralda: I keep thinking and thinking How I came here to soften the king heart towards my people until my silly heart betrayed me for that I deserve to die.
Gringoire: You will not! I will get you free
Esmeralda: You will look out after my people when I am gone
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Quasimodo, the bell-ringer: I never realize till now how ugly I am, because you're so beautiful... Im not a man not a beast laughs I'm about as shapeless of the man on the moon. I'm deaf you know but you can speak to me by signs
Esmeralda: Why did you save me
Quasimodo, the bell-ringer: you ask me why I saved you oh, I tried to carry you off, and the next day you gave me a drink of water and little pity.
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