Top 30 Quotes From Robert Langdon

Robert: But I need a copy of the book.
Sienna: Copy of the book? That's quaint.
[waves a smart phone]
Sienna: I use Google.

Robert: Zobrist is dead, but if his plague is real, then this map, it's a trail he has left so someone can find it.
Sienna: Who?
Robert: Well, someone who believes the same as he does.
Sienna: And that's why you have it?
Robert: Well, I don't remember ever meeting Zobrist.

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

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

Robert: In the Palazzo's Hall of Five Hundred, there's a famous mural: Giorgio Vasari's "Battle of Marciano". Near the top of the mural is a coded message. It's one of the art world's most famous puzzles.
Sienna: And what's the message?
Robert: Cerca trova. "Seek and find". And at the hospital, I kept saying I was sorry...
Sienna: Very sorry. Over and over.
Robert: Well, maybe that's not what I meant. The name of the artist, Vasari. I-I could have been saying "Vasari".
Sienna: That's good. You seem clearer.
Robert: Yeah. I-I am.
Sienna: What's your middle name?
Robert: [dodging] Well, I-I am. I am.

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.

Robert: [on Zobrist] I agree in what he's saying but not his intended actions

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.

Robert: [sadly on Sienna as body bags are brought up] She thought she was saving the world
Elizabeth: [resigned] So did they all

Robert: You afraid of heights?
Sienna: A little.
Robert: I'm uncomfortable in tight spaces. So don't look down. Or do. I can never remember which.

Harry: At my behest. When things had appeared to go tits up, I tried to sweep it all away quickly.
Robert: By killing me?
Harry: Oh, I apologize unreservedly, Mr. Langdon.

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.

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."

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.

Inspector: Where did you get that paper?
Vittoria: We borrowed it.
Robert: [reading paper with magnifier] "From Santi's earthly tomb with demon's hole...
Inspector: Are you insane?
Robert: ...Cross Rome the mystic elements unfold. The path of light is laid, the sacred test. Let angels guide thee on they lofty quest."
Inspector: You removed a document from the Vatican Archives?
Robert: [points at Vittoria] She did.

Robert: It scares the hell out of me.

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.

[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!

Robert: We met?
Sienna: Sorry, that's not quite fair. I was 9 years old at the time.
Robert: Wait, wait, 9, 9 years old?
Sienna: I was crazy about puzzles. And I liked your books. Maybe not Lost Language of Ideograms. But the others.
Robert: Okay.
Sienna: I read them all.
Robert: What a weird kid.
Sienna: I was, actually.
Robert: Did I say that out loud?
Sienna: You did.

Robert: [trying to solve an anagram] V, R, O. Got... gotta re-arrange these letters. Over, code, covered, cat. God, I used to be good at this.
Sienna: Cerca trova. It's Italian. It means "seek and find".
Robert: Cerca trova? Yes! I know why I am in Florence.

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

Sienna: You called him a murderer. A psychopath.
Robert: What?
Sienna: But history will call us saviors.
Robert: Oh, my god. Oh, my god.
Sienna: I'm not afraid to act, Robert. But doing nothing terrifies me.
Robert: The path and-and the pointer, he left that all for you. Zobrist. You knew him?
Sienna: Knew him? I loved him. You're wearing his suit.

Sienna: Questions are important. It'll help you recover.
Robert: Can I ask you for a cup of, uh... it-it's... it's, um... well, it... it's brown and it's hot, and people drink it in the morning for energy. Uh...
Sienna: Tea?
Robert: Tea. No! The other one.
Sienna: Coffee.
Robert: Coffee! Could I have a cup of coffee?

[last lines]
Robert: Well, you might tell someone that the lights on the Dante mask should be turned on because I could barely see it.
Death: I know, I'm sorry, sir, the Dante mask is no longer here. It was stolen.
Robert: Really? I was just looking at it.
Death: Excuse me.
[guard leaves to go look into the mask room and starts shouting in Italian bring in many other guards, who also start speaking Italian as they find the Dante mask in place]

Robert: I'm sorry, this is Sienna... my niece.
Marta: You're in Italy, Professor. You don't have to say "niece."
Robert: No.

Robert: There are too many of us down here. You won't get to that bag before we do.
Sienna: No. But I can make sure it breaks.
Robert: [protesting] Come on. Don't-don't do this, Sienna, don't. You'll be murdering innocents.
Sienna: [bluntly] Yes, people will die, a lot of them, but the crisis will be averted. It's what nature demands. The problem won't just be slowed down, it'll be solved. Permanently.
Robert: [aghast] Killing billions to save lives? That's the logic of tyrants.
Sienna: [preaching] For a greater good, humanity...
Robert: [mortified] Genius does not come with extra rights.
Sienna: [agitated] No, it comes with the responsibility to take action when others won't.
Robert: [exasperated] You wanna do something? Fine. Then scream at the top of your lungs and invent and lead!
Sienna: [appealing] If you love humanity, if you love this planet, you'd do anything to save it.

Robert: [direct] The greatest sins in human history have been committed in the name of love.
[shaking head]
Robert: No one will look on this act and call it love.
Sienna: [resigned] They'll be alive. What does it matter what they say about us?

Robert: [believing he's in a hospital in Boston] What am I doing in Florence? That's il Duomo. That... that's the Palazzo Vecchio, isn't it?

Sienna: You lied to me when you asked for my help.
Robert: Well, technically, I withheld.

Sienna: Why was someone shooting at you?
Robert: I don't know.
Sienna: Also, when you came into the E.R., you were mumbling something over and over.
[playing a recording on her phone]
Robert: Very sorry. Very sorry. Very, very sorry.
[she turns the recording off]
Robert: "Very sorry"?
Sienna: Do you have any idea why you'd be saying this?
Robert: No.
Sienna: Why was someone shooting at you?
Robert: You can keep asking me these questions, lady, but I'm not gonna know the answers!