Quotes
Ichabod Crane: Villainy wears many masks, none of which so dangerous as virtue…
Brom Van Brunt: We haven’t heard your name yet, friend.
Ichabod Crane: I have not yet said it.
Lady Van Tassel: Watch your heads.
Katrina Anne Van Tassel: I have shed my tears for Brom… and yet my heart is not broken. Do you think me wicked?
Ichabod Crane: No… but perhaps there is a little bit of witch in you, Katrina.
Katrina Anne Van Tassel: Why do you say that?
Ichabod Crane: Because you have bewitched me.
Ichabod Crane: It is truth, but truth is not always appearance.
Reverend Steenwyck: Their heads weren’t found severed. Their heads were not found at all.
Ichabod Crane: The heads are… gone?
Notary James Hardenbrook: Taken. Taken by the headless horsemen. Taken back to hell.
Young Masbath: Is he dead?
Ichabod Crane: That’s the problem. He was dead to begin with.
Katrina Anne Van Tassel: Good-bye, Ichabod Crane. I curse the day you came to Sleepy Hollow.
Ichabod Crane: You believe the father killed her?
Samuel Philipse: The Horseman killed her.
Ichabod Crane: How often do I have to tell you? There is no Horseman, never was a Horseman, and never will be a Horseman.
[Pulls a pendant off of The Magistrate's neck]
Ichabod Crane: What is that thing?
Samuel Philipse: It’s my talisman. It protects me from the Horseman.
Ichabod Crane: It was a headless horseman.
Baltus Van Tassel: You must not excite yourself.
Ichabod Crane: But it was a headless horseman.
Baltus Van Tassel: Of course it was. That’s why you’re here.
Ichabod Crane: No, you must believe me. It was a horseman, a dead one. Headless.
Baltus Van Tassel: I know, I know.
Ichabod Crane: You don’t know because you were not there. It’s all true.
Baltus Van Tassel: Of course it is. I told you. Everyone told you.
Ichabod Crane: I… saw him. [faints]
Ichabod Crane: The millennium is almost upon us. In a few months, we will be living in the nineteenth century. But our courts continue to rely on medieval devices of torture.
High Constable: Stand down.
Ichabod Crane: I stand up for sense and justice.
Baltus Van Tassel: The horseman was a Hessian mercenary sent to the shores by German princes to keep Americans under the yoke of England. But unlike his compatriots, who came for money, the horseman came for love of carnage.
Ichabod Crane: We have murders in New York without benefit of ghouls and goblins.
Baltus Van Tassel: You are a long way from New York, constable.
Ichabod Crane: Katrina, why are you in my room?
Katrina Anne Van Tassel: Because it is yours.
Ichabod Crane: [opens the book] It was your mother’s?
Katrina Anne Van Tassel: Keep it close to your heart. It’ll show protection against harm.
Ichabod Crane: Are you so certain of everything?
Ichabod Crane: [to the Western Woods Crone] I should like to say that I make no assumptions about your occupation nor your ways which… which… which… which nothing to me what if you are.
Ichabod Crane: Katrina, I might have killed you. Why have you come?
Katrina Anne Van Tassel: Because no one else would go with you.
Ichabod Crane: I am now twice the man, and it is your white magic.
Lady Van Tassel: Dear step-daughter… You look as if you’ve seen a ghost.
Lady Van Tassel: The first part was the easiest. To enter your home as your mother’s sick-nurse and send her body into the grave while my own into your father’s marriage bed.
Baltus Van Tassel: If you are wise, you will leave this place.
Baltus Van Tassel: [to Ichabod] Young sir, you are most welcome, even if you are selling something.
Katrina Anne Van Tassel: I think you have no heart. And I had a mind once to give you mine.
Ichabod Crane: [to the horse] Giddy Up… no, no this way… good horsey.
Lady Van Tassel: The Horseman comes. And tonight he comes for you.
Lady Van Tassel: Still Alive?
Ichabod Crane: Run, Katrina.
Lady Van Tassel: Yes, do run, and jump, and skip.
Ichabod Crane: [the decapitated corpse of Masbath has been found] You have moved the body.
Dr. Thomas Lancaster: I did.
Ichabod Crane: You must never move the body!
Dr. Thomas Lancaster: Why not?
Ichabod Crane: Because!
Dr. Thomas Lancaster: This is most irregular, Constable.
Ichabod Crane: I should hope so, Doctor, but in this case necessary. I shall need to operate.
Dr. Thomas Lancaster: Operate? She’s dead.
Ichabod Crane: Once more, the neck wound cauterized. The sword thrust to the stomach… the same. But, to what purpose?
Dr. Thomas Lancaster: To what is your purpose is the question.
[Dr. Lancaster inquisitively looks at one of Ichabod's operating tools]
Dr. Thomas Lancaster: What manner of instruments are these?
Ichabod Crane: Some of my own design!
[Regarding a spider]
Ichabod Crane: Kill it! No, no! Stun it!
[On Katrina's apparent guilt]
Young Masbath: A strange sort of witch, with a kind and loving heart. How can you so?
Ichabod Crane: I have good reason.
Young Masbath: Then you are bewitched by reason.
Ichabod Crane: I am beaten down by it!
[to Katrina, who is apparently guilty]
Ichabod Crane: It was an evil spirit possessed you. I pray God it is satisfied now, and you find peace. The evil eye has done it’s work; my life is over, spared for a lifetime of horrors in my sleep, waking each day to grief. Goodbye, Katrina.
Lady Van Tassel: You’re just in time to have your head cut off.
Ichabod Crane: Katrina… you took the evidence and burned it.
Katrina Anne Van Tassel: So you would not have it to accuse my father.
Ichabod Crane: I accuse no one.
- Source: IMDb.com