Fanny and Alexander (TV Mini Series)

Demonerna (1983)

Jarl Kulle: Gustav Adolf Ekdahl

Quotes 

• Gustav Adolf Ekdahl : My dear Edvard, you'd rather shit in your pants than suffer the disgrace of the parish hags whistling through their false teeth. You may well have morality and the law on your side, old man, but bear in mind that I'm in league with immorality, and even were you to win in court, we who side with immorality will have spread so many credible rumors about your person, your way of life, your household, your sister, your servants, your sanity, your sexual excesses, your phony hair, your hypocrisy, your hypochondria, and your lack of decency that you'll be forever forced to preach to Huguenots, hooligans and Eskimos!

• Gustav Adolf Ekdahl : Turning pale now, are you? The holy man's looking pale, eh, Carl? I'd say his nose even grew a bit too. Yes, yes, yes. You're a special kind of bully, Edvard Vergérus. One thing I've learned in my profession is to recognize the smell of a bully, even if he wears a cassock. And I know how bullies should be treated. They must be bullied!

• Gustav Adolf Ekdahl : Shut up, Carl. Shut up!

  [turns to the Bishop] 

  Gustav Adolf Ekdahl : While I tell this spiritual masturbator what we have up our sleeves.

• Gustav Adolf Ekdahl : The world is a den of thieves and the night is falling. Evil breaks its chains and runs through the world like a mad dog. The poison affects us all, us Ekdahls, and everyone else. No one escapes, not even Helena Viktoria or little Aurora. So it shall be. Therefore, let us be happy while we are happy. Let us be kind, generous, affectionate and good. It is necessary, and not at all shameful, to take pleasure in the little world. Good food, gentle smiles, fruit trees in blossom, waltzes.

• Gustav Adolf Ekdahl : We must be able to grasp the world and reality so we can complain of their monotony with a clear conscience. Don't be sad, dear splendid artists. Actors and actresses, we need you all the same. It is you who must give us our supernatural shivers, or better yet, our innermost diversions.

• Gustav Adolf Ekdahl : Just imagine: We're all together again! Our little world has closed around us in safety, wisdom and order. After a period of fear and confusion, death's shadows have been routed, winter has been put to flight, and joy has returned to our hearts.

• Gustav Adolf Ekdahl : We Ekdahls have not come into the world to see through it. Never think that. We are not equipped for such excursions. We might just as well ignore the big things. We must live in the little world. We will be content with that and cultivate it and make the best of it.