Claude Frollo/Quotes

Collection of quotes relating to Judge Claude Frollo

*"You idiot! That wasn't kindness, it was cunning! She's a gypsy! Gypsies are not capable of real love! Think, boy! Think of your mother!"* (recomposes himself) *"But what chance could a poor, misshapen child like you have against her heathen treachery? Well, never you mind, Quasimodo. She will be out of our lives soon enough. I will free you from her evil spell. She will torment you no longer."*
―Claude Frollo yelling at Quasimodo[src]

*"I know where her hideout is, and tomorrow, at dawn, I attack with a thousand men."*
―Claude Frollo[src]

*"And he shall smite the wicked and* plunge *them into the fiery pit!"*
―Frollo's final words[src]
### Dialogue

**Frollo**: "*This is an unholy demon. I'm sending it back to hell, where it belongs!*"
**Archdeacon**: "*See there the innocent blood you have spilt on the steps of Notre Dame.*"
**Claude Frollo**: "*I am guiltless. she ran, I pursued.*"
**The Archdeacon**: "*Now you would add this child's blood to your guilt on the steps of notre dame.*"
**Claude Frollo**: "*My conscience is clear!*"
**The Archdeacon**: "*You can lie to yourself and your minions you can claim that you haven't a qualm but you never can run from, nor hide what you've done from the eyes the very eyes of Notre Dame!*"
**Clopin**: "*And for one time in his life of power and control, Frollo felt a twinge of fear for his immortal soul*"
**Claude Frollo**: "*What must I do?*"
**The Archdeacon**: "*Care for the child, raise it as your own.*"
**Frollo**: "*What? I'm to be settled with this misshapen…? Very well. Let him live with you, in your church.*"
**Archdeacon**: " *Live here? Where?*"
**Claude Frollo**: " *Anywhere. Just so he's kept locked away where no one else can see. The bell tower, perhaps. And who knows? Our Lord works in mysterious ways. Even this foul creature may yet prove one day to be of use to me*"
— Claude Frollo and the Archdeacon[src]

**Frollo:** "*You, Gypsy girl! Get down at once!*"
**Esmeralda:** "*Yes, Your Honor. Just as soon as I free this poor creature.*"
**Frollo:** "*I forbid it! How dare you defy me?*"
**Esmeralda:** "*You mistreat this poor boy the same way you mistreat my people. You speak of justice, yet you are cruel to those most in need of your help!*"
**Frollo:** "*Silence!*"
**Esmeralda:** "*Justice!*"
**Frollo:** "*Mark my words, Gypsy, you will pay for this insolence.*"
**Esmeralda:** "*Then it appears we've crowned the wrong fool. The only fool I see is you!*""
―Esmeralda and Claude Frollo[src]

**Frollo**: "*What's different in here?*"
**Quasimodo**: "*Nothing, sir.*"
**Frollo**: "*Isn't this one new? It's awfully good. Looks very much like the gypsy girl. I know... YOU HELPED HER ESCAPE! And now, all Paris is burning because of you!*"
**Quasimodo**: "*She was kind to me, master.*"
**Frollo**: "*You idiot! That wasn't kindness, it was cunning! She's a gypsy! Gypsies are not capable of real love! Think, boy! Think of your mother!"* (recomposes himself) *But what chance could a poor, misshapen child like you have against her heathen treachery? Well, never you mind, Quasimodo."* (takes Esmeralda's figurine with his dagger and burns it.) *"She will be out of our lives soon enough."* (throws figurine on floor) *"I will free you from her evil spell. She will torment you no longer.*"
**Quasimodo**: "*What do you mean?*"
**Frollo**: "*I know where her hideout is, and tomorrow, at dawn, I* attack *with a thousand men.*"
— Claude Frollo and Quasimodo[src]

**Frollo:** "*Now, now... L-Listen to me...Quasimodo..."*
**Quasimodo:** "*No,* you *listen! All my life, you have told me that the world is a dark, cruel place. But now I see that the only thing dark and cruel about it is people like you...!"*
**Esmeralda:** "*Quasimodo?"*
**Quasimodo:** "*Esmeralda!"*
**Frollo:** "*She lives!"*
**Quasimodo:** "No!"
―Frollo, Quasimodo, Esmeralda[src]