Claude Rains movie quotes

View Quote I'm only a poor corrupt official.

View Quote Realizing the importance of the case, my men are rounding up twice the usual number of suspects.

View Quote [about Ugarte] I'm making out the report now. We haven't quite decided whether he committed suicide or died trying to escape.

View Quote (As he takes off his clothes) They've asked for it, the country bumpkins. This will give them a bit of a shock, something to write home about. A nice bedtime story for the kids, too, if they want it.

View Quote It's easy, really, if you're clever. A few chemicals mixed together, that's all, and flesh and blood and bone just fade away! A little of this injected under the skin of the arm every day for a month. An invisible man can rule the world! Nobody will see him come, nobody will see him go. He can hear every secret. He can rob, and rape, and kill!

View Quote I must have a partner, Kemp. A visible partner, to help me in the little things. You're my partner, Kemp. We'll begin with a reign of terror. A few murders here and there. Murders of great men, murders of little men, just to show we make no distinction. We might even wreck a train or two - just these fingers around the signalman's throat, that's all...

View Quote [After Jefferson Smith collapses during his filibuster] I'm not fit to be a Senator. I'm not fit to live. Expel me! Expel me! Not him. Every word that boy said is the truth! Every word about Taylor and me and graft and the rotten political corruption of our state. Every word of it is true. I'm not fit for office! I'm not fit for any place of honor or trust. Expel me!

View Quote Gentlemen, I have lost all patience with this brazen character. I apologize to this body for his appointment. I regret I ever knew him. I'm sick and tired of this contemptible young man and I refuse to stay here and listen to him any longer. I hope every member of this body feels as I do.

View Quote [After verbally attacking Smith] I hit him from the floor with everything I knew...[looks away]..I haven't got the stomach for this anymore.

View Quote All astronomers are amateurs. When it comes to the heavens, there's only one professional.

View Quote You policemen are always in such a hurry. As if dead men didn't have all eternity.

View Quote Sir John: Yes, that’s the sign of the werewolf.
Larry: That’s just a legend though, isn’t it?
Sir John: 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. How does it go? “Even a man who is pure in heart and says his prayers by night may become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms and Autumn moon is bright.”

View Quote When we told lies you told half-lies. And a man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it.

View Quote On the whole, I wish I’d stayed in Tunbridge Wells.

View Quote Big things have small beginnings.

View Quote Dr. Jaquith: My dear Mrs. Vale, if you had deliberately and maliciously planned to destroy your daughter's life, you couldn't have done it more completely.
Mrs. Vale: How? By having exercised a mother's rights?
Dr. Jaquith: A mother's rights? Twaddle. A child has rights. A person has rights to discover her own mistakes, to make her own way, to grow and blossom in her own particular soil.
Mrs. Vale: Are we getting into botany, Doctor? Are we flowers?

View Quote Mrs. Vale: I will not countenance deceit, Lisa, against one of my own flesh and blood. But neither will I countenance any more of Charlotte's nonsense. [to Charlotte] Lisa tells me that your latest peculiarities, your fits of crying, your secretiveness indicate you're on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Is that what you're trying to achieve?
Lisa: Charlotte, dear, believe me, I was only trying to help you.
Mrs. Vale: Dr. Jaquith has a sanitarium in Vermont, I believe. Probably one of those places with a high wire fence and yowling inmates.
Dr. Jaquith: I wouldn't want anyone to have that notion. Cascade is where people go when they're tired. Like you go to the seashore.
Mrs. Vale: The very word "psychiatry," Dr. Jaquith ... 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."

View Quote Dr. Jaquith: There's nothing like these old Boston homes anywhere. Here on Marlborough Street or Beacon Hill, you see them standing in a row like bastions. Firm, proud, resisting the new. Houses turned in upon themselves, hugging their pride.
Charlotte: Introverted, doctor.
Dr. Jaquith: Well, I wouldn't know about that. I don't put much faith in scientific terms. I leave that to the fakirs and writers of books.