Evil Queen quotes from Once Upon a Time

Evil Queen

My gift to you is this happy, happy day. For tomorrow, my real work begins. You've made your vows. Now I make mine. Soon everything you love, everything all of you love, will be taken from you. Forever. And out of your suffering will rise my victory. I shall destroy your happiness... if it is the last thing I do.

Evil Queen

I always felt there were two kinds of people. Wolves and sheep. Those who kill, and those who get killed. And you, Huntsman... you are most certainly a wolf.

Evil Queen

[speaking before her execution] I know I'm being judged for my past, a past where I've caused pain, a past where I've inflicted misery, a past where I've even brought death. When I look back at everything I've done, I want you all to know what I feel, and that is regret... regret that I was not able to cause more pain, inflict more misery, and bring about more death. And above all else, with every ounce of my being, I regret that I was not able to kill Snow White!

Evil Queen

The Queen is dead. Long live the Evil Queen.

Evil Queen

I've dreamt of this moment for so long, Snow White. I'd wake up still feeling the grit of your crushed heart clinging to my palms. But that ending isn't poetic enough, is it? I want to give you my pain. The pain of being alone.

Evil Queen

Genie of Agrabah, I wish that Emma Swan's wish – to have never been the Savior – be granted.

Evil Queen

What must I do to enact this curse?

Rumplestiltskin

You need to sacrifice a heart.

Evil Queen

I sacrificed my prize steed.

Rumplestiltskin

A horse? This is the curse to end all curses. You think a horse is going to do? Great power requires great sacrifice. The heart you need must come from something far more precious.

Evil Queen

Tell me what will suffice.

Rumplestiltskin

The heart of the thing you love most.

Evil Queen

I just want to be happy.

You can be. Of this I'm sure. I believe, given the chance, we can find happiness. Together. But the choice is yours.

Evil Queen

I offered your children everything, whatever their hearts desired, and they still chose uncertainty because of their blind faith in you. Tell me why. Why did your children refuse me?

Because we're a family, and family always finds one another.

Evil Queen

[reflecting on how King Leopold still loves his first wife] I'm trapped by the memory of the life they used to share.

I know about being trapped more than anyone. Maybe this will lift your spirits. [pulls out a hand mirror] So you can see yourself the way I see you.

Evil Queen

And how do you see me?

As the fairest in all the land.

Snow

I take that apple and he lives? That's the deal you want to make?

Evil Queen

With all my heart.

Snow

Then congratulations. You've won.

Evil Queen

When she is gone, when Snow is dead, then they will see my kindness.

Rumplestiltskin

Yes, through the charred remains of their homes. I'm sure that will be perfectly clear.

If you had a family of your own, if you had love, you'd know you shouldn't do this. You wouldn't have to be so cruel.

Evil Queen

Don't you tell me what I do or don't understand. I know who I am and what I want. And right now... it's your head on a spike.

Are you sure you don't want me to kill her?

Evil Queen

I won't turn her into a martyr for these people to worship. No. I have to turn them against her. And these miserable people will finally realize the truth. I am meant to be their queen.

Emma

[after learning that the Evil Queen wants to make her watch Ashley lose her happy ending] I saved her once. I'll save her again.

Evil Queen

That's the tragic thing about being a savior. You have to keep saving people. But once you're off the chessboard, everything falls apart. All those happy endings turn to dust and your entire life means nothing.