"I am the master of this house, Miss Winters. I will decide what is fair and what is not fair."
"The prestige of the Collins family name, sir, is the result of many long years of hard work, dedication to high principles, and a devotion to God. A scandal must not be risked at any cost." - to Reverend Trask
"What do you suggest? Shall I open my own bottle of sherry and see how much I have to drink before I begin to see hands appearing?"
"You know as well as I do that if the girl is not here and if she isn't a witch, nothing will happen. So please, Barnabus, allow this man to come here and perform his mumbo-jumbo so that we can keep peace in this family."
"For various reasons, I have decided to keep my son's death a secret ... Tomorrow I will spread the word that Barnabus left suddenly on a business trip to England."
"I see you have a window in your cell...It's almost the hour of sunset...I suggest that you gaze out of your window and look at this one. And if the sight of the sunrise is of special pleasure to you, I suggest that you rise early in the morning...Enjoy your beloved sunrises and your glorious sunsets. There will be few left for you to see...I'll see to that." - to Victoria Winters
"Perhaps a few days of the streaks of red blazing in the sky, you can contemplate not only the fires of hell to which you will surely be damned, but the fires of this earth - the death of witches that will take you to the fires of the next!" - to Victoria Winters
"I never gave you love, but I wanted at least to give you peace. If someone has disturbed your rest, I vow revenge. If some cowardly thief, no matter who it be, has broken your slumbers, I promise swift destruction. - about Barnabus Collins
"I went to the place where we laid Barnabus to rest...I opened the coffin...I opened the coffin that my son was buried in, and there was nothing there. The coffin was empty."
"It was fortunate for you that I came in when I did. She could have killed you... Allow me to inform you that if she had, your loss would not have been missed by a single member of this family." - to Nathan Forbes
Nathan Forbes: "You could have some compassion." Joshua: "That would be foreign to my nature."
Joshua: "I am to release you, to let you murder?!...Why?! How can you ask me to do a thing like this? How?! Barnabus Collins: "Because I am a vampire! I must have blood!"
"I must share the blame for her death. She would not have taken her own life if she had felt she could turn to me...She said something to me before she died, something I didn't expect her to say...She said that she loved me...I thought she had stopped loving me long ago." - about Naomi Collins
"He is a vampire...Barnabus has been placed under a curse. It has destroyed this family and will, in due time, destroy Barnabus himself."
