- Roger Collins: All right, Kitten. I'll get out my score pad and you can catch me up on the number of guests we have now ensconced here.
- Carolyn Stoddard: Well, Jason is still here.
- Roger Collins: Check.
- Carolyn Stoddard: But, uh, Willie Loomis has gone.
- Roger Collins: Oh, bravo. You can't keep the jet set down, can you? Did he accept an invitation from the Prince and Princess of Monaco or could he simply not stand another one of Mrs. Johnson's famous boiled dinners?
- [opening narration]
- Victoria Winters: My name is Victoria Winters. There are two great houses at Collinwood. One alive with the present and the other slowly decaying, filled with the dead memories of the past.
- [first lines]
- Victoria Winters: David! David! David, answer me if you're in here. Come on, David, it's getting dark outside. David, is that you? David, I know it's you. Sometimes you're the most exasperating boy in the world. David, open the door! David!
- [last lines]
- Carolyn Stoddard: [regarding Barnabas] It's more than a resemblance. It's almost as if it were exactly a portrait of him.
- Victoria Winters: Well, you've made your point in comparing this house to the pyramids. But there is one difference between them. The pyramids were designed to be tombs.
- Barnabas Collins: You're right. This house was not designed to be a tomb.