Claude Rains movie quotes

“- Sir John Talbot: Larry, Bela the gypsy was killed last night. Your walking stick was found next to the body.
- Larry Talbot - The Wolf Man: You mean, Bela the fortune teller? But... I only saw a wolf.”

Claude Rains - Sir John Talbot
Lon Chaney Jr. - Larry Talbot - The Wolf Man

“If you try and escape by the window, I shall follow you, and no one in the world can save you.”
Claude Rains - Dr. Jack Griffin aka The Invisible Man

“Rick is the kind of man that… if I were a woman, and I were not around, I should be in love with Rick. But what a fool I am talking to a beautiful woman about another man.”

Claude Rains - Captain Louis Renault

“- Dr. Jack Griffin aka The Invisible Man: I give you a last chance to leave me alone.
- Constable Jaffers: Give me a last chance? You've commited assualt, that's what you've done, and you can come along to the station with me.”
Claude Rains - Dr. Jack Griffin aka The Invisible Man
E.E. Clive - Constable Jaffers

“- Enrique Claudin: I have written a concerto. Now, will you trust me if I can arrange to have it published?
- Signor Ferretti: Every violinist has written a concerto! Come, come, my dear Claudin.
- Enrique Claudin: But I have faith in this one. As much faith as I had in Mademoiselle Dubois when I came to you three years ago.”
Claude Rains - Erique Claudin
Leo Carrillo - Signor Ferretti

“Goodbye, Kemp. I always said you were a dirty little coward. You're a dirty sneaking little rat as well. Goodbye.”

Claude Rains - Dr. Jack Griffin aka The Invisible Man

“- Captain Louis Renault: I've often speculated why you don't return to America. Did you abscond with the church funds? Run off with a senator's wife? I like to think you killed a man. It's the romantic in me.
- Rick Blaine: It was a combination of all three.”
Claude Rains - Captain Louis Renault
Humphrey Bogart - Rick Blaine

“- 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

“I don't know what's going to happen to this world in the next hundred years or so, but I can guarantee you life isn't going to get any simpler. Worry and doubt bring on a bellyache. Mankind's building up the biggest psychic bellyache in history.”

Claude Rains - Dr. Alexander Tower

“- Rick Blaine: Remember, this gun is pointed right at your heart.
- Captain Louis Renault: That is my least vulnerable spot.”
Humphrey Bogart - Rick Blaine
Claude Rains - Captain Louis Renault

“- Job Skeffington: A woman is beautiful when she's loved, and only then.
- Fanny Trellis Skeffington: Nonsense. A woman is beautiful when she has eight hours' sleep and goes to the beauty parlor every day. And bone structure has a lot to do with it too.”
Claude Rains - Job Skeffington
Bette Davis - Fanny Trellis Skeffington

“You mustn't be too harsh on my secretaries. They were always very understanding when I came to the office after a hard day at home.”

Claude Rains - Job Skeffington

“- Don José Alvarez de Cordoba: It is extremely important that my niece is presented to the Queen before her new maids of honor are chosen.
- Capt. Lopez: They say that Elizabeth surrounds herself with beauty in the hope that it may be contagious.”
Claude Rains - Don José Alvarez de Cordoba
Gilbert Roland - Capt. Lopez

“I don't put much faith in scientific terms. I leave that to the fakers and the writers of books.”

Claude Rains - Dr. Jaquith

“- Dr. Jack Griffin aka The Invisible Man: I hope your car's ensured, Kemp. I'm afraid there's going to be a nasty accident in a minute. A very nasty accident!
- Dr. Arthur Kemp: Griffin, I'll do anything! Everything you ask me!”
Claude Rains - Dr. Jack Griffin aka The Invisible Man
William Harrigan - Dr. Arthur Kemp

“- Capt. Freycinet: It's a fine day.
- Renault: Any day that takes us closer to France is a fine day.”
Claude Rains - Capt. Freycinet
Philip Dorn - Renault

“I put my trust in Kemp. I told him my secret and he gave me his word of honor.”
Claude Rains - Dr. Jack Griffin aka The Invisible Man

“The drugs I took seemed to light up my brain. Suddenly I realized the power I held, the power to rule, to make the world grovel at my feet.”
Claude Rains - Dr. Jack Griffin aka The Invisible Man

“- Sir John Talbot: Yes, that's the sign of the werewolf.
- Larry Talbot - The Wolf Man: That's just a legend though, isn't it?
- Sir John Talbot: Yes, but like most legends, it must have some basis in fact. It's probably an ancient explanation of the dual personality in each of us.”
Claude Rains - Sir John Talbot
Lon Chaney Jr. - Larry Talbot - The Wolf Man

- Mrs. Henry Vale: The very word "psychiatry", doesn't it fill you with shame, my daughter, a member of our family?
- Dr. Jaquith: There's nothing shameful or frightening about it. It's simple, what I do. People come to a fork in the road. They don't know which way to go. I put up a signpost: "Not that way. This way".

Gladys Cooper - Mrs. Henry Vale
Claude Rains - Dr. Jaquith

“My darling, I failed. I meddled in things that man must leave alone.”

Claude Rains - Dr. Jack Griffin aka The Invisible Man