32 Angels & Demons Quotes (2026) #2

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

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[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 Patrick McKenna: 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.

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Robert Langdon: [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 Olivetti: I beg your pardon?
Robert Langdon: 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: [Olivetti stops abruptly, outside a heavy steel door with a security keyboard beside it] Are you anti-Catholic, Professor Langdon?
Robert Langdon: Me? No, I'm anti-vandalism.

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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.

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Vittoria Vetra: [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.

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Camerlengo Patrick McKenna: 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.

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

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Assassin: Be careful. These are men of God.

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Robert Langdon: [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 Olivetti: I beg your pardon?
Robert Langdon: 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 Langdon: [Olivetti stops abruptly outside a heavy steel door with a security keyboard beside it] Are you anti-Catholic, Professor Langdon?
Robert Langdon: Me? No, I'm anti-vandalism?