30 Best Angels & Demons Quotes

Robert: You will counsel him wisely.
Cardinal: [chuckles] I am an old man. I will counsel him briefly.

Robert: It scares the hell out of me.

[Police have been ordered to return Langdon to the Vatican]
Robert: [to poiice] The Vatican is about to see its fourth Cardinal murdered tonight! Now, look... You can do as they say and force me back to the Vatican, where we can all mourn his death together. Or you can show how real cops act, and take me to the Piazza Navona, where we still might be able to stop it!
[the police start conferring between themselves]
Robert: Oh, by all means, let's talk it over. In 14 minutes, he's gonna be dead!

Assassin: Be careful. These are men of God.

Camerlengo: Would it surprise you to find those clothes suit you?
Robert: [chuckles] It would surprise the hell out of me.

Robert: I need access to the Vatican Archives.
Inspector: Professor, I don't think this is the appropriate moment.
Richter: Your petition has been denied seven times.
Robert: No, no. This has nothing to do with my work. The Path of Illumination is a hidden trail through Rome itself that leads to the Church of the Illumination, the place where the Illuminati would meet in secret. If I can find the Segno, the sign, that marks the beginning of that path, the four churches along it may be where he intends to murder your Cardinals. One every hour at 8:00, 9:00, 10:00 and 11:00. Then the device explodes... at midnight. If we can figure out the first church and get there before he does, may be we can stop it. But I can't find the start of the path until I get into the Archives.
Richter: Even if I wanted to help you, access to the Archives is only by written decree by the curator and the Board of Vatican Librarians.
Robert: Or by papal mandate.
Richter: Yes, but as you no doubt have heard, the Holy Father is dead.
Robert: What about Il Carmerlengo?
Richter: The Carmerlengo is just a priest here, the former Pope's chamberlain.
Robert: Doesn't the power of the Holy See rest in him during Tempo Sede Vacante?
[all the Vatican police men look at each other, with various degrees of doubt and uncertainty]
Robert: Fellas... you called me.

[first lines]
Narrator: The Ring of the Fisherman, which bears the official papal seal, must be destroyed immediately following the Pope's death. The papal apartment is then sealed for nine days of mourning, a period known as "Sede Vacante", the time of the empty throne.

Camerlengo: Christianity's most sacred codices are in that archive. Given your recent... entanglement with the Church, there is a question I'd like to ask you first here in-in the office of His Holiness.
[Walks towards Robert Langdon]
Camerlengo: Do you believe in God, sir?
Robert: [pause] Father, I simply believe that religion...
Camerlengo: I did not ask if you believe what man says about God. I asked if you believe in God.
Robert: [pause] I'm an academic. My mind tells me I will never... understand God.
Camerlengo: And your heart?
Robert: [pause] Tells me I'm not meant to. Faith is a gift... that I have yet to receive.
Camerlengo: [pauses to consider his words] Be delicate with our treasures.

Vittoria: [points to computer diagram of the antimatter device] The antimatter is suspended there in an airtight nanocomposite shell with electromagnets in each end. But if it were to fall out of suspension and come in contact with matter, say, the bottom of the canister, then the two opposing forces would annihilate one another violently.

Camerlengo: We are at war! We're weak when we should be strong! If science is allowed to claim the power of creation, what is left for God?

Robert: The Illuminati did not become violent until the 17th Century. Their name means "The Enlightened Ones." They were physicists and mathematicians, astronomers. They were concerned with the Church's inaccurate teaching and they were dedicated to scientific truth. But the Vatican didn't like that. So the Church began to... how did you say it? Oh, "Hunt them down and kill them."

Robert: Do you smoke?
Chartrand: A little bit.
Robert: Then you better sit down before you keel over.

Camerlengo: Have you come to make me a martyr?

Robert: [Swiss Guards Offices Corridor. As Langdon and Olivetti walk, Langdon studies the row of statues of male nudes that line both sides of the hallway, all wearing fig leaves] The Great Castration.
Inspector: I beg your pardon?
Robert: 1857. Pius IX felt the male form might inspire lust, so he got a hammer and chisel and unmanned two hundred statues. These plaster figs were added later.
Inspector: [Olivetti stops abruptly, outside a heavy steel door with a security keyboard beside it] Are you anti-Catholic, Professor Langdon?
Robert: Me? No, I'm anti-vandalism.

[the bomb that threatens to destroy St.Peter's is set to go off at midnight. The Camerlengo is discussing evacuation with his security chief]
Camerlengo: At 11:15, if the Church is still in peril, If we are still in peril... give the order to evacuate the Cardinals. But with dignity. Let them walk out into St. Peter's Square with their heads held high. I don't want the last image of this Church to be of frightened old men sneaking out the back door.

Inspector: [on hearing Langdon's description of Pius IX's "Great Castration" of Vatican City's male statues] Are you... anti-Catholic, Professor Langdon?
Robert: No. I'm anti-vandalism.

Chartrand: The Catholic Church is not a corporation, it's a beacon. A source of inspiration for a one billion lost and frightened souls.
Robert: Sure, I get that. It's also a bank.

Cardinal: Religion is flawed. But only because man is flawed. All men, including this one.

Camerlengo: Our church is at war. We are under attack from an old enemy. The Illuminati. They have struck us from within. Murdering our Holy Father. And threatening us all with destruction at the hands of their new god, science.

Richter: He said they'd be killed publicly.
Robert: Yes. Revenge... for La Purga.
Richter: La Purga?
Robert: Oh, geez, you guys don't even read your own history, do you? 1668, the Church kidnapped four Illuminati scientists and branded each one of them on the chest with the symbol of the cross... to purge them of their sins, and they executed them. Threw their bodies out into the street as a warning to others to stop questioning Church ruling on scientific matters. They radicalized them. The Purga created a darker, more violent Illuminati, one bent on... on retribution.

Camerlengo: Their faith will not protect them from an explosion.
Cardinal: Well... We are all bound for heaven eventually, are we not?
Camerlengo: Spoken like one who has enjoyed the blessings of a long and full life.

Cardinal: May god forgive you for what you've done...
Assassin: Father, if God has issues, they won't be with what I've done. They will be with what I'm about to do.

Assassin: [on video] We will destroy your four pillars. We will brand your Preferiti and sacrifice them on the altars of science, then bring your church down upon you. Vatican City will be consumed by light. A shining star at the end of the Path of Illumination.

Assassin: You know, when they call me... and they all call me... it is so important to them that I know what they ask is the Lord's will. Or Allah's or Yahweh's... And I suppose they're right... Beause if he was not vengeful, I would not exist, now would I?

Vittoria: You know, the worst thing we thought would happen... was that our work would fall into the hands of the energy companies... We thought we could change the world... So naive.
Robert: No, no. Not naive. Innocent, maybe. But that's not a crime.
Vittoria: I'm not so sure.
Robert: Go back to work. Change the world.

Assassin: Were it up to me, it would not be this way. It's a sin to kill the pain. It's a sin to kill without reason. Father... they make me a sinner.

Vittoria: He chose the name Luke.
Robert: There's been many Marks and Johns. Never a Luke.
Cardinal: It's said he was a doctor.
Vittoria: It's quite a message, science and faith all in one.
Cardinal: The world is in need of both.

Robert: [Swiss Guards Offices corridor. As Langdon and Olivetti walk, Langdon studies the row of statues of Male nudes that line both sides of the hallway, all wearing fig leaves] The Great Castration.
Inspector: I beg your pardon?
Robert: 1857. Pius IX felt that the male form might inspire lust, so he took a hammer and chisel and unmanned hundreds of these statues. These plaster fig leaves were added later.
Robert: [Olivetti stops abruptly outside a heavy steel door with a security keyboard beside it] Are you anti-Catholic, Professor Langdon?
Robert: Me? No, I'm anti-vandalism?

[last lines]
Cardinal: Mr. Langdon. Thanks be to God for sending someone to protect His church.
Robert: I don't believe He sent me, Father.
Cardinal: Oh, my son. Of course He did.

Cardinal: And when you write of us... and you will write of us... May I ask one thing? Do so gently.