Death Takes a Holiday (1934)

Guy Standing: Duke Lambert

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• Baron Cesarea : I think you're all wrong to be afraid. I talked to him about dying, and he said "Has it ever occurred to you that Death may be simpler than Life and infinitely more kind?"

  Duke Lambert : He said that?

  Baron Cesarea : Yes... and when he spoke, I had a curious feeling that somehow he knew.

• Duke Lambert : Why do you do this?

  Death : For a number of reasons. For one thing, to discover why men fear me as they do.

  Duke Lambert : Don't you know?

  Death : How should I know? What could terror mean to me, who have nothing to fear?

• Stephanie : [referring to Death]  Do you think he'll surely come?

  Duke Lambert : Oh yes... I think he'll come back and say goodbye to his... friends.

• Duke Lambert : I've had a glimpse of deep waters tonight, and I didn't like it.

• Duke Lambert : He is the one whom all men dread! He is... DEATH! His Majesty Death, amusing himself on a holiday... amusing himself with love!