Film Quotes by Basil Rathbone
70 quotes
Year: 1962
Director:
Bert I. Gordon
Director:
Bert I. Gordon
Lodac:
Take Sir George to the dungeon.
--
Basil Rathbone
(as Lodac)
in
The Magic Sword
(1962)
Year: 1929
Director:
Sidney Franklin
Director:
Sidney Franklin
Lord Arthur Dilling:
By marrying I can make only one woman miserable. By remaining single I can make so many happy.
--
Basil Rathbone
(as Lord Arthur Dilling)
in
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
(1929)
Year: 1935
Director:
George Cukor
Director:
George Cukor
Mr. Micawber:
[to young Copperfield] Boy, as I have frequently had occasion to observe, "When the stomach is empty, the spirits are low."
--
Basil Rathbone
(as Mr. Murdstone)
in
David Copperfield
(1935)
Year: 1935
Director:
Ernest B. Schoedsack*Merian C. Cooper
Director:
Ernest B. Schoedsack*Merian C. Cooper
Pontius Pilate:
I am innocent of the blood of this just man.
--
Basil Rathbone
(as Pontius Pilate)
in
The Last Days of Pompeii
(1935)
Year: 1935
Director:
Ernest B. Schoedsack*Merian C. Cooper
Director:
Ernest B. Schoedsack*Merian C. Cooper
Pontius Pilate:
My boy, I've heard such ideas, a long time ago. They are dreams - beautiful dreams, I know, but dreams nonetheless.
Flavius, as a Man: Was it a dream that once I knew a man who said "Love thy neighbor as thyself"?
Marcus: There never was such a man, I tell you.
Pontius Pilate: Don't lie to him, Marcus. There was such a man.
Flavius, as a Man: What happened to him?
Pontius Pilate: I crucified Him.
Flavius, as a Man: Was it a dream that once I knew a man who said "Love thy neighbor as thyself"?
Marcus: There never was such a man, I tell you.
Pontius Pilate: Don't lie to him, Marcus. There was such a man.
Flavius, as a Man: What happened to him?
Pontius Pilate: I crucified Him.
--
Basil Rathbone
(as Pontius Pilate)
in
The Last Days of Pompeii
(1935)
Year: 1943
Director:
Roy William Neill
Director:
Roy William Neill
Sherlock Holmes:
...I must confess I shied at the thought of disemboweling a complete set of Charles Dickens.
--
Basil Rathbone
(as Sherlock Holmes)
in
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
(1943)
Year: 1939
Director:
Sidney Lanfield
Director:
Sidney Lanfield
Sherlock Holmes:
[a portrait that he has just seen fascinates him] You must - you must dine with us before you sail.
Sir Henry Baskerville: Well, there's the old boy himself - Sir Hugo, the Beast of the Baskervilles.
Dr. Watson: Done by Ransome, one of the minor painters.
Sir Henry Baskerville: I don't imagine it's very valuable.
Sherlock Holmes: I can't quite agree with you, Sir Henry.
[ominously]
Sherlock Holmes: One day, it might prove to be of the greatest value.
Sir Henry Baskerville: Well, there's the old boy himself - Sir Hugo, the Beast of the Baskervilles.
Dr. Watson: Done by Ransome, one of the minor painters.
Sir Henry Baskerville: I don't imagine it's very valuable.
Sherlock Holmes: I can't quite agree with you, Sir Henry.
[ominously]
Sherlock Holmes: One day, it might prove to be of the greatest value.
--
Basil Rathbone
(as Sherlock Holmes)
in
The Hound of the Baskervilles
(1939)
Year: 1944
Director:
Roy William Neill
Director:
Roy William Neill
Sherlock Holmes:
[Describibg Andrea Spedding as she is being arrested] A remarkable woman! Audacious and deadly as one of her own spiders!
--
Basil Rathbone
(as Sherlock Holmes)
in
The Spider Woman
(1944)
Year: 1944
Director:
Roy William Neill
Director:
Roy William Neill
Sherlock Holmes:
[sitting down gingerly to remove his make-up] Oh, I'm as stiff as a varnished eel!
--
Basil Rathbone
(as Sherlock Holmes)
in
The Pearl of Death
(1944)
Year: 1944
Director:
Roy William Neill
Director:
Roy William Neill
Sherlock Holmes:
[to Watson] My dear chap, I really must caution you against hitting newspaper reporters in the teeth...
--
Basil Rathbone
(as Sherlock Holmes)
in
The Pearl of Death
(1944)