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Quotes from The Penalty (1920)

8 quotes
Lon Chaney
Barbara Ferris: Why do you live in the underworld?
Blizzard: When Satan fell from Heaven he looked for power in Hell.

Lon Chaney
Blizzard: [to Barbara] Laughter burns a cripple like acid.

Lon Chaney
Blizzard: [to Barbara] Some excellent judges think that I resemble Satan.

Lon Chaney
Blizzard: [to his white slaves] By the way, Barbara Nell, who strayed from us, now sleeps on a marble slab.

Lon Chaney
Blizzard: Don't grieve, dear - death interests me.

Lon Chaney
Blizzard: Fate chained me to evil, for that I must pay the Penalty. - That is a great puzzle. Perhaps I am going to see it solved.

Lon Chaney
Blizzard: You have worked in the dark long enough - this is the plan I have been developing for two years.
Blizzard: At twelve noon on that day I shall loot the City of San Francisco.
Blizzard: Your ten thousand foreign malcontents will filter into the city in small detachments.
Blizzard: The signal will be an explosion.
Blizzard: By fire and riots I shall draw the police and military into the suburbs.
Blizzard: The heart of the city will be left defenseless - ours to loot at will.
Blizzard: And then we shall vanish with our treasure.

Charles Clary
Older doctor: Good God, you should not have amputated!
Dr. Ferris: [No title but clearly mouthing the word] What?
Older doctor: You have mangled this child for life!