The best Quotes from The Silence of the Lambs

The best Quotes from The Silence of the Lambs

We begin by coveting what we see every day! Don't you feel eyes moving over your body, Clarice? And don't your eyes seek out the things you want?

Hannibal Lecter

Look for severe childhood disturbances associated with violence. Our Billy wasn't born a criminal, Clarice. He was made one through years of systematic abuse.

Hannibal Lecter

When the Fox hears the Rabbit scream he comes a-runnin', but not to help.

Thomas Harris

Nothing made me happen. I happened.

Thomas Harris

Being smart spoils a lot of things, doesn't it?

Thomas Harris

A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.

Hannibal Lecter

Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness, except greed.

Thomas Harris

I've no plans to call on you, Clarice. The world is more interesting with you in it.

Hannibal Lecter

I'm not sure you get wiser as you get older, Starling, but you do learn to dodge a certain amount of hell.

Thomas Harris

You still wake up sometimes, don't you? You wake up in the dark and hear the screaming of the lambs.

Hannibal Lecter

Problem-solving is hunting; it is savage pleasure and we are born to it.

Thomas Harris

Quid pro quo. I tell you things, you tell me things. Not about this case, though. About yourself.

Hannibal Lecter

But the face on the pillow, rosy in the firelight, is certainly that of Clarice Starling, and she sleeps deeply, sweetly, in the silence of the lambs.

Thomas Harris

God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again.

Thomas Harris

I would not have had that happen to you. Discourtesy is unspeakably ugly to me.

Thomas Harris

He lives down in a ribcage in the dry leaves of a heart.

Thomas Harris

She didn't give a damn about some of them, but she had grown to learn that inattention can be a stratagem to avoid pain, and that it is often misread as shallowness and indifference.

Thomas Harris

Whenever feasible, one should always try to eat the rude.

Hannibal Lecter

We've tried to study him, of course, but he's much too sophisticated for the standardtests.

Frederick Chilton

I expect most psychiatrists have a patient or two they'd like to refer to me.

Thomas Harris

Clarice Starling: "Most serial killers keep some sort of trophies from their victims."
Hannibal Lecter: "I didn't."
Clarice Starling: "No, you ate yours."

He's a monster. Pure psychopath. So rare to capture one alive. From a research point of view, Lecter is our most prized asset.

Frederick Chilton

Can you smell his sweat? That peculiar goatish odor is trans-3-methyl-2 hexenoic acid. Remember it, it's the smell of schizophrenia.

Thomas Harris

I'm going to show you why we insist on such precautions. On the evening of July 8, 1981, he complained of chest pains and was taken to the dispensary. His mouthpiece and restraints were removed for an EKG. When the nurse leaned over him, he did this to her. The doctors managed to reset her jaw, more or less. Saved one of her eyes… his pulse never got above 85, even when he ate her tongue.

Frederick Chilton

You might like these Quotes aswell

It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.

Jodie Foster

1

Solitude & Loneliness

I've only been to Dublin once, and I had a great time. I got completely soaked because it was rainy.

Jodie Foster

I'm a technician. I don't go for the get-into-the-role stuff. I read the lines and play the scenes.

Jodie Foster

'Taxi Driver' was the best thing that ever happened to me, and I didn't become a weirdo and squawk like a chicken.

Jodie Foster

It's very hard for me to get a new car. It's really hard for me to get a new house. It's really hard for me to move on from the things that give me stability.

Jodie Foster

Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable.

Jodie Foster

Sweat is the urine of the skin.

Sheldon Cooper in Young Sheldon - Season 4 Episode 3

Related pages to The Silence of the Lambs

Thomas Harris

Jodie Foster

The best Quotes about Sweating

The best Book Quotes

Book-Quotes