Lionel Barrymore quotes
- From the movie: Duel in the Sun
“- Jesse McCanles: You mean to shoot down unarmed men?
- Sen. Jackson McCanles: Just like rattlesnakes if they cross that line!” - From the movie: Duel in the Sun
“I once fought for that flag; I'll not fire on it.”
- From the movie: Duel in the Sun
“- Sen. Jackson McCanles: So that's where you stand!
- Jesse McCanles: I think I'd rather be on the side of the victims than of the murderers.” - La trovi in About Colleagues
“Like cutting Tolstoy's beard so he wouldn't write any revolutionary novels.”
- La trovi in Reputation and Popularity
“Half the people in Hollywood are dying to be discovered and the other half are afraid they will be.”
- La trovi in Life and Death in Hollywood
“If a man doesn't know death, he doesn't know life.”
- La trovi in Relationships in Hollywood
“The older you get, the more you realize that kindness is synonymous with happiness.”
- La trovi in Insults
“I've played everything but the harp.”
- From the movie: It's a Wonderful Life
“I am an old man, and most people hate me. But I don't like them either so that makes it all even.”
- From the movie: A Guy Named Joe
“No man is really dead unless he breaks faith with the future, and no man is really alive unless he accepts his responsibility to it.”
- From the movie: It's a Wonderful Life
“- Mr. Potter: Have you put any real pressure on these people of yours to pay those mortgages?
- Pa Bailey: Times are bad, Mr. Potter. A lot of these people are out of work.
- Mr. Potter: Well, then, foreclose.
- Pa Bailey: I can't do that. These families have children.
- Mr. Potter: They're not my children.” - From the movie: Key Largo
“You’re right, you shouldn’t have been deported, you should have been exterminated.”
- From the movie: Grand Hotel
- From the movie: Grand Hotel
“You think you have free license to be insulting? Believe me, you have not. You think you're superior, but you're quite an ordinary man.”
- From the movie: Grand Hotel
“To life! To the magnificent, dangerous, brief, wonderful life... and the courage to live it! You know, Baron, I've only lived since last night, but that little while seems longer than all the time that's gone before.”
- From the movie: Dinner at Eight
“- Oliver Jordan: International star returns to stage...
- Carlotta Vance: Never! I'll have my double chins in privacy.”
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