Ichabod Crane: Villainy wears many masks, none so dangerous as the mask of virtue.
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.
Ichabod Crane: It is truth, but truth is not always appearance.
Lady Van Tassel: Dear stepdaughter... You look as if you'd seen a ghost.
Ichabod Crane: Katrina, why are you in my room?
Katrina Anne Van Tassel: Because it is yours.
Dr. Thomas Lancaster: Enough have died already. It is time we confess our sins.
Lady Van Tassel: The Horseman comes, and tonight he comes for you.
Katrina Anne Van Tassel: Good-bye, Ichabod Crane. I curse the day you came to Sleepy Hollow.
Lady Van Tassel: You're just in time to have your head cut off.
Ichabod Crane: Yes I think you loved me that day when you followed me into the Western Woods... to have braved such peril.
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.
Brom Van Brunt: We haven't heard your name yet, friend.
Ichabod Crane: I have not said it.
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.
Answer: It may have been because she was a widow. I'm not sure, but it was possibly frowned upon at the time.
Sierra1 ★
The widow was pregnant with Van Garett's child.