Nikola Tesla quotes from Sanctuary

Nikola Tesla

But we were young, and, believe it or not, even a tad arrogant.

Nikola Tesla

Helen... You're going to have to find another date to the prom.

Nikola Tesla

Thanks for consulting me about the suicide pact.

Nikola Tesla

Take this to Eisenhower. And if he says it's cryptic, I'll knock his teeth in.

Nikola Tesla

You're unpleasant when you use rhetoricals.

Nikola Tesla

Who is that? William?

Nikola Tesla

Hey. Listen here you little creep: we're working as fast as inhumanly possible, so...what?...yeah...yeah, we can do that.

Nikola Tesla

Helen Magnus. Kiss me and I’ll save your life.

Helen Magnus

And if I don’t?

Nikola Tesla

[scoffs] It’s been over sixty years, just plant one on me already, will you?

Helen Magnus

Nikola Tesla. You always did know how to get attention.

Nikola Tesla

And you’re still boring as ever when it comes to giving a lecture. But to business: Cabal agents are all over the building. If we don’t leave now, things are going to get...rather bullet-ridden.

Nikola Tesla

This is fun, isn’t it? Just like old times, back in London? When was that, forty-two? Forty-three?

Helen Magnus

I prefer not to think about it.

Nikola Tesla

Come on, Helen. Every major spy agency in the world was looking for me. I needed your help. And besides, what’s a faked death among friends?

Helen Magnus

Whose hare-brained notion was it to supply every allied government with plans for your death ray weapon?

Nikola Tesla

Well, I thought they’d all share and that peace would break out. I did. I had my Nobel speech all memorized.

Nikola Tesla

Well, I did die a lonely, impoverished, pitiful old man. Thanks for the funeral, by the way. I heard it was quite nice.

Helen Magnus

I faked your death to save your life, so that your work could continue. I think I’m owed an explanation as to your whereabouts since then.

Nikola Tesla

Hey, perfecting the use of electricity and radio waves? Hard acts to follow, okay?

Helen Magnus

Why would the Cabal see you as a threat?

Nikola Tesla

I’m a vampire. Some people are threatened by that.

Nikola Tesla

When vampires ruled the earth, it was a golden age. Science, art, architecture, all advanced. And after they killed them off what happened?

Helen Magnus

The Dark Ages.

Nikola Tesla

And now everybody thinks that we're allergic to garlic and we can turn into bats at will. It's beyond insulting.

Helen Magnus

You’ve always been like this, haven’t you? Selfish and arrogant, putting your own desires before everyone else’s.

Nikola Tesla

I brought you here for two reasons: Because only you can help me finish what I’m working on and because I love you.

Helen Magnus

Yes, so you keep... what?

Helen Magnus

We’re going to have to fight our way out of here. No killing.

Nikola Tesla

Said the woman with the gun to the vampire.

Helen Magnus

Guess I can tell you that, at Oxford? No one liked you.

Nikola Tesla

Aw. Was it because I was a genius?

Helen Magnus

No. Because you were an obnoxious ass.

Nikola Tesla

Well, look who's still standing.

Nikola Tesla

I’m guessing that one of you must be a blood relative of Nigel Griffin otherwise why would you even be brought along. I hope you're up to the task.

Clara Griffin

Damn straight I am, skinny.

Nikola Tesla

You, I like. [to Will] You, I don't know.

Will Zimmerman

I'm Dr Zimmerman, I work with Dr Magnus.

Nikola Tesla

Protégé. Well. The mission's necessary disposable item.