Curse of the Demon (1957)

Niall MacGinnis: Doctor Julian Karswell

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• John Holden : I see you practice white magic as well as black.

  Doctor Julian Karswell : Oh yes, I don't think it would be too amusing for the youngsters if I conjured up a demon from hell for them.

• Doctor Julian Karswell : Some things are more easily started than stopped.

• Doctor Julian Karswell : Do I believe in witchcraft? What kind of witchcraft? The legendary witch that rides on the imaginary broom? The hex that tortures the thoughts of the victim? The pin stuck in the image that wastes away the mind and the body?

  John Holden : Also imaginary.

  Doctor Julian Karswell : But where does imagination end and reality begin? What is this twilight, this half world of the mind that you profess to know so much about? How can we differentiate between the powers of darkness and the powers of the mind?

• Doctor Julian Karswell : Ha ha, snakes and ladders. An English game, you wouldn't know it. You see, if you land at the foot of the ladder you climb all the way to the top. But if you land on the head of the snake, you slide all the way down again. Funny thing, I always preferred sliding down the snakes to climbing up the ladders. You're a doctor of psychology, you ought to know the answer to that.

  John Holden : Maybe you're a good loser.

  Doctor Julian Karswell : I'm not, you know. Not a bit of it.

• Doctor Julian Karswell : Listen, mother. You believe in the supernatural. I've shown you some of its power and some of its danger.

  Mrs. Karswell : Yes, Julian.

  Doctor Julian Karswell : Well, believe this also. You get nothing for nothing. This house, the land, the way we live. Nothing for nothing. My followers who pay for this do it out of fear. And I do what I do out of fear also. It's part of the price.

  Mrs. Karswell : But if it makes you unhappy. Stop it. Give it back.

  Doctor Julian Karswell : How can you give back life? I can't stop it. I can't give it back. I can't let anyone destroy this thing. I must protect myself. Because if it's not someone else's life, it'll be mine. Do you understand, mother? It'll be mine.

• John Holden : [after a windstorm conjured by Karswell has forced Holden and Karswell indoors]  I didn't know you had cyclones in England!

  Doctor Julian Karswell : We don't.

• Doctor Julian Karswell : A magician doesn't like to expose his magic, black or white.

• Doctor Julian Karswell : You get nothing for nothing.