Basil Rathbone movie quotes

“- Professor Moriarty: Each second a few more drops leave your desiccated body. And you can feel them can't you? You're perfectly conscious aren't you, Holmes?
- Sherlock Holmes: I shall be conscious long after you're dead, Moriarty.”

Lionel Atwill - Professor Moriarty
Basil Rathbone - Sherlock Holmes

“It appears that my father thought that he could extract from lightning some super-violet ray of life-giving properties.”
Basil Rathbone - Baron Wolf von Frankenstein

“I put secret after truth, you will be hated, blasphemed and condemned.”

Basil Rathbone - Baron Wolf von Frankenstein

“I told my son you were dead. Why do you make me out a tyrant who intervenes between him and you?”

Basil Rathbone - Alexei Alexandrovitch Karenin

“Perhaps you will regard my work with ridicule or even with a distaste. If so, destroy these records. But if you like me burn with the irresistable desire to penetrate the unknown, carry on.”

Basil Rathbone - Baron Wolf von Frankenstein

“- Peter Blood: Women will be the death of you, Levasseur.
- Levasseur: Then it is a very pleasant way to die, even if it is expensive.”
Errol Flynn - Peter Blood
Basil Rathbone - Levasseur

“There's an east wind coming all the same. Such a wind as never blew on England yet. It will be cold and bitter, Watson. And a good many of us may wither before its blast. But it's God's own wind nonetheless, and a greener, better, stronger land will lie in the sunshine when the storm has cleared.”

Basil Rathbone - Sherlock Holmes

“- Anna Karenina: There is no life for me without my child. To leave him would be infamous and base. I couldn't. And you know I couldn't.
- Alexei Alexandrovitch Karenin: Very well. I can assume, then, that you will never again jeopardize my honor.”
Greta Garbo - Anna Karenina
Basil Rathbone - Alexei Alexandrovitch Karenin

“I assure you, Mr. Ahrens, that Dr. Watson is the very soul of discretion.”

Basil Rathbone - Sherlock Holmes

“- Robin Hood: You would not kill a man for telling the truth, would you?
- Sir Guy of Gisbourne: If it amused me, yes!”

Errol Flynn - Robin Hood
Basil Rathbone - Sir Guy of Gisbourne

“- Sir Guy of Gisbourne: You've come to Nottingham once too often!
- Robin Hood: When this is over, my friend, there'll be no need for me to come again.”
Basil Rathbone - Sir Guy of Gisbourne
Errol Flynn - Robin Hood

“I'm sorry, Watson, the pleasures of the chase are no longer for me. I'm through with crime now and forever.”

Basil Rathbone - Sherlock Holmes

“Elementary, my dear Watson.”
Basil Rathbone - Sherlock Holmes

“Remarkable woman. Audacious and deadly as one of her own spiders.”
Basil Rathbone - Sherlock Holmes

“- Sir Guy of Gisbourne: Let me ram those words down his throat your highness!
- Prince John: No... later. Let him spout for the moment.”

Basil Rathbone - Sir Guy of Gisbourne
Claude Rains - Prince John

“Consider, Watson, the irony, the tragic irony, that we accepted the commission from the victim to find her murderer. For the first time... we've been retained by a corpse.”

Basil Rathbone - Sherlock Holmes

“It's extraordinary to me that you people cannot take care of yourselves and your children.”

Basil Rathbone - Marquis St. Evrémonde

“You've a magnificent brain, Moriarty. I admire it. I admire it so much I'd like to present it pickled in alcohol to the London Medical Society.”
Basil Rathbone - Sherlock Holmes

“- Anna Karenina: Then you will not give me a divorce?
- Alexei Alexandrovitch Karenin: Never. Why should I? To permit you to legalize a sin? To justify your conduct and his? Never.”
Greta Garbo - Anna Karenina
Basil Rathbone - Alexei Alexandrovitch Karenin

“I believe in marriage as a sacrament.”

Basil Rathbone - Alexei Alexandrovitch Karenin

“- Sherlock Holmes: Indubitably, these murders are the work of a well-organized gang and directing them is one of the most fiendishly clever minds in all Europe today.
- Lestrade: Any notion who?
- Sherlock Holmes: I suspect a woman.”

Basil Rathbone - Sherlock Holmes
Dennis Hoey - Lestrade

“I shall write a monograph some day... on the noxious habit of accumulating useless trivia.”
Basil Rathbone - Sherlock Holmes

“- Sir Guy of Gisbourne: What is your name?
- Much-the-Miller's-Son: A better one than yours!”
Basil Rathbone - Sir Guy of Gisbourne
Herbert Mundin - Much-the-Miller's-Son

“You have inherited the fortune of the Frankensteins, I trust you will not inherit their fate.”

Basil Rathbone - Baron Wolf von Frankenstein

“- Elsa von Frankenstein: What a dreadful storm and awful lightening.
- Baron Wolf von Frankenstein: It's magnificent. Nothing in nature is terrifying when one understands it.”
Josephine Hutchinson - Elsa von Frankenstein
Basil Rathbone - Baron Wolf von Frankenstein