Lestat de Lioncourt quotes from Interview with the Vampire

Lestat de Lioncourt

I thought we could have an orgy. You can fuck them and I can eat them.

Lestat de Lioncourt

We'll be together ten thousand nights, a hundred thousand. What we're doing is hard. Anything that wards off the dungs of the everlasting road we walk, the pleasures of the flesh, the pleasures of the kill, for me. Pleasures of the good book by the fire for you.

Lestat de Lioncourt

[Reading about Louis's grisly murder of Alderman Fenwick in the paper] I must confess, I'm very proud of you, Louis. It goes against much of my teaching, but you managed to execute it with such aplomb.

Lestat de Lioncourt

[Forcing Claudia to watch at Charlie in the incinerator] Stop squirming and watch. Remember this, his face as it melts. This is why we don't get close to mortals. Because sooner or later, they end up dead.

Lestat de Lioncourt

There is one thing about being a vampire that I most fear above all else... and that is loneliness. You can't imagine the emptiness. A void stretching out for decades at a time. You take this feeling away from me, Louis. We must stay together and take precaution... and never part.

Lestat de Lioncourt

I played three games at once in the Jardin du Luxembourg, and one of my opponents was Johannes Zukertort,

Lestat

[To Louis] Even now, I'm still the only one you chose.

Lestat de Lioncourt

The dark, dreary industrial world has finally succumbed to automation. Laborers stand in their doorways, hitting their pipes as their children half-pipe in their drained, empty swimming pools. Drugstores locked up baby formula and shaving cream. While Saks ate Barneys and someone told everyone that Lululemon was sexy. Facts are irrelevant. Feels are everything. And the value of human life has never been more arbitrary. David, Freddie, Prince Rogers, they're all gone, and the lights on Tay-Tay's era have dimmed. Fire coming down the hill, water moving in on Nantucket. No more safe spaces. It's my era now.

Are you one with Christ, Monsieur Lioncourt?

Louis de Pointe du Lac

How 'bout you shut your damn mouth?

Louis...

Lestat de Lioncourt

That's alright, Louis, Madame. The birds speak for him... I came to know Christ in a monastery. I wanted to be a priest. Just like you, Paul.

Lestat de Lioncourt

[Begins to hypnotize Paul] And under the guidance and discipline of the monks who lived there, I came to memorize both testaments, the writings of Assisi, Aquinas, Erasmus, all the saints and scholars. My father, a vulgar man, did not think much of this education. And so he and my brothers conspired to pull me out, lock me away, where, between beatings, starvations and the failure of Christ to intercede the beatings and starvations, I slowly forgot all about the testaments, Assisi, Aquinas, Erasmus, all of it. And so to answer your boring question, there is an ocean between Christ and myself! J'espère que cela satisfera les oiseaux perchés dans la cage de votre esprit!

Louis de Pointe du Lac

[Slams the table] Don't do that shit here! Not with my family. You understand?

Lestat de Lioncourt

[Long pause] I am cursed with my father's temper at times. The rudeness is all mine.

That's alright. It's the humidity, it does that sometimes.

Lestat de Lioncourt

Seul l'impossible peut faire l'impossible.

Lily

I don't know much what you're saying, but it sure sounds nice.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

'Only the impossible can do the impossible.'

Lestat de Lioncourt

Bonsoir, monsieur. You speak French?

Lily

We speak all sorts of tongues in New Orleans.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

It's a hard table to get. How'd you manage it?

Lestat de Lioncourt

How'd you manage to get yourself through the front door?

Louis de Pointe du Lac

Excuse me?

Lestat de Lioncourt

I mean that as a compliment, a man of your race to have privileges here.

Lily

Louis has a small empire of his own down the street. It gives him privileges. [Lestat laughs]

Louis de Pointe du Lac

Somethin' funny about that?

Lestat de Lioncourt

Your name is Louis. Of course it's Louis.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

I didn't get your name, fella.

Lestat de Lioncourt

Je suis désolé. Je m'amuse trop en privé. I know who you are, sir. You're the man who made me buy a townhouse in the Quarter. I owe you everything. Please join us.

Lestat de Lioncourt

New to the... the New World, I am.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

That explains the clothes.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

You did good gettin' off that boat when you did. St. Louis is dull as dishwater.

Lestat de Lioncourt

Yes, I feel quite at home here.

Lestat de Lioncourt

[In Paul's funeral procession] Mes condoléances.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

Pas ici.

Lestat de Lioncourt

An elegant coffin. Would you tell me where you purchased?

Louis de Pointe du Lac

Move on.

Lestat de Lioncourt

I wait on my balcony every night. You've been avoiding me.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

I have been occupied.

Lestat de Lioncourt

Miss Lily proved herself a poor substitute and I don't take kindly to being avoided.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

It's my brother's funeral!

Lestat de Lioncourt

Believe me when I tell you, your brother longed for that flagstone.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

You killed Lily.

Lestat de Lioncourt

Cut short that magnificent life she was living? What a tragedy.

Louis de Pointe du Lac

Ain't no fever out there. That's you. You bringin' the death to town.

Lestat de Lioncourt

I give death to those deserving. I'm not the Devil. You were wrong about that. But I can give you death.