- [Norton laughs manically after seeing the Mummy leave the archaelogists' workshop with the sacred scroll]
- Sir Joseph Whemple: What's the matter, man? For heaven's sake, what is it?
- Ralph Norton: He went for a little walk! You should have seen his face!
- Doctor Muller: Look! The sacred spells which protect the soul in its journey to the underworld have been chipped off the coffin. So Imhotep was sentenced to death not only in this world, but in the next.
- Ralph Norton: Maybe he got too gay with the vestal virgins in the temple.
- Doctor Muller: Possibly.
- Frank Whemple: Stuck in the desert for two months, and was it hot! That tomb...
- Helen Grosvenor: What tomb?
- Frank Whemple: Surely you read about the princess?
- Helen Grosvenor: So you did that.
- Frank Whemple: Yes. The fourteen steps down and the unbroken seals were thrilling. But when we came to handle all her clothes and her jewels and her toilet things - you know they buried everything with them that they used in life? - well, when we came to unwrap the girl herself...
- Helen Grosvenor: How could you do that?
- Frank Whemple: Had to! Science, you know. Well after we'd worked among her things, I felt as if I'd known her. But when we got the wrappings off, and I saw her face... you'll think me silly, but I sort of fell in love with her.
- Helen Grosvenor: Do you have to open graves to find girls to fall in love with?
- Sir Joseph Whemple: [translating inscription on box] "Death... eternal punishment... for... anyone... who... opens... this... casket. In the name... of Amon-Ra... the king of the gods." Good heavens, what a terrible curse!
- Ralph Norton: [eagerly] Well, let's see what's inside!
- Imhotep: Anck-es-en-Amon, my love has lasted longer than the temples of our gods. No man ever suffered as I did for you. But the rest you may not know. Not until you are about to pass through the great night of terror and triumph. Until you are ready to face moments of horror for an eternity of love.
- Frank Whemple: Oh, I know it seems absurd when we've known each other such a short time. But I'm serious.
- Helen Grosvenor: Don't you think I've had enough excitement for one evening, without the additional thrill of a strange man making love to me?
- Doctor Muller: Put it back. Bury it where you found it. You have read the curse. You dare defy it?
- Sir Joseph Whemple: In the interest of science, even if I believed in the curse, I'd go on with my work for the museum. Come back with me, and we'll examine this great find together.
- Doctor Muller: I cannot condone an act of sacrilege with my presence.
- Helen Grosvenor: I loved you once, but now you belong with the dead. I am Anck-es-en-Amon, but I... I'm somebody else, too. I want to live, even in this strange new world.
- Imhotep: [to Helen Grosvenor dressed as his beloved Princess Anck-es-en-Amon] It was not only this body I loved, it was thy soul. I destroy this lifeless thing! Thou shall take its place but for a few moments and then... RISE again, even as I have risen!
- Imhotep: You will not remember what I show you now, and yet I shall awaken memories of love... and crime... and death...
- Frank Whemple: He's a strange one.
- Sir Joseph Whemple: But you might at least have thanked the man. He was responsible for finding the Princess.
- Frank Whemple: Yes, I rather wish he hadn't been. I think it's a dirty trick, this Cairo Museum keeping everything we've found.
- Sir Joseph Whemple: That was the contract. The British Museum works for the cause of science, not for loot.
- Frank Whemple: You seem to think this thing has all the devils of hell in it. Why not burn it and be done with it?
- Doctor Muller: An excellent sugggestion...
- Imhotep: Have we not met before, Miss Grosvenor?
- Helen Grosvenor: No. I don't think so. I don't think one would forget meeting you, Ardath Bey.
- Imhotep: Then I am mistaken.
- Helen Grosvenor: Where was I when I fainted, Mr. Whemple?
- Frank Whemple: Oh, outside the museum.
- Helen Grosvenor: What was I doing there?
- Frank Whemple: [chuckling] Well, I wouldn't know that, would I?
- Frank Whemple: No, I wouldn't supposed you would. I wish I did...
- Doctor Muller: Helen knows. She knows the moment she stops struggling he will give her back her strength to come to him.
- Helen Grosvenor: But I don't want to lose my own mind, and be someone else, someone I hate!
- Frank Whemple: Queer story, that young Oxford chap he had with him going mad. You know what I think it was?
- Professor Pearson: No, what?
- Frank Whemple: I think he went crazy. Bored beyond human endurance, messing round in this sand and these rocks.
- Professor Pearson: He was laughing when your father found him. He died laughing, in a strait-jacket.
- Doctor Muller: Frank, I need your help. I saw your attraction to my patient last night, and hers to you.
- Frank Whemple: Hers to me? You really think so?
- Doctor Muller: And I welcomed it.
- Frank Whemple: But do you think I have a chance? 'Cause I think she's the most wond- oh, but this is terrible at a time like this.
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