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Film Quotes by Cedric Hardwicke

21 quotes
The Ten Commandments
Year: 1956

Director:
Cecil B. DeMille
Moses: [just after Moses defended himself, against Rameses' accusations, he opens a curtain, to Sethi] Let your own image proclaim my loyalty for a thousand years.
Sethi: Superb!
The Ten Commandments
Year: 1956

Director:
Cecil B. DeMille
Nefretiri: Do not exhaust yourself, Great One.
Sethi: [on his deathbed] You are the only thing I regret leaving. You have been my joy.
Nefretiri: And you my only love.
Sethi: Now you're cheating. There was another. I know. I loved him, too. With my last breath, I'll break my own law and speak the name of... Moses.
[10 seconds]
Sethi: Moses.
[Sethi's last words, were spoken slowly, as he said Moses' name twice]
King Solomon's Mines
Year: 1937

Director:
Robert Stevenson
Patrick 'Patsy' O'Brien: Well, you never know what you can do 'til you try.
Allan Quartermaine: While you're trying, your poor sister's peacefully passing away in Kilkenny.
Kathleen 'Kathy' O'Brien: Allan Quartermain, it was a lie about me father's sister.
Allan Quartermaine: I know. I've met the Irish before.
-- Cedric Hardwicke (as Allan Quatermain) in King Solomon's Mines (1937)
On Borrowed Time
Year: 1939

Director:
Harold S. Bucquet
Julian Northrup: Live and let live, that's my motto.
Mr. Brink: Yes. You can hardle expect me to second that.
-- Cedric Hardwicke (as Mr. Brink) in On Borrowed Time (1939)
King Solomon's Mines
Year: 1937

Director:
Robert Stevenson
Allan Quartermaine: You know, O'Brien, there's only one kind of man that it's useless to argue with.
Patrick 'Patsy' O'Brien: And that is?
Allan Quartermaine: A fool!
-- Cedric Hardwicke (as Allan Quatermain) in King Solomon's Mines (1937)
The Ghoul
Year: 1933

Director:
T. Hayes Hunter
Broughton: Almost his last words were a threat to return from the dead. In my opinion, he was mad!
-- Cedric Hardwicke (as Broughton) in The Ghoul (1933)
The Ghoul
Year: 1933

Director:
T. Hayes Hunter
Broughton: We all know that dead men don't come back.
-- Cedric Hardwicke (as Broughton) in The Ghoul (1933)
The War of the Worlds
Year: 1953

Director:
Byron Haskin
Commentary: Mars is more than 140 million miles from the sun, and for centuries has been in the last status of exhaustion. At night, temperatures drop far below zero even at its equator. Inhabitants of this dying planet looked across space with instruments and intelligences that which we have scarcely dreamed, searching for another world to which they could migrate. They could not go to Pluto, outermost of all planets. So cold, that even it's atmosphere lies frozen on it's surface. They couldn't go to Neptune, or Uranus. Twin worlds in eternal night and perpetual cold. Both surrounded by an unbreathable atmosphere of methane gas, and ammonia vapor. The Martians considered Saturn, and attractive world with it's many moons and beautiful rings of cosmic dust. But, it's temperature is close to 270 degrees below zero. And ice lies 15,000 miles deep on it's surface. Their nearest world was giant Jupiter, where there are titanic cliffs of lava and ice with hydrogen flaming at the tops, where the atmospheric pressure is terrible. Thousands of pounds to the square inch. Nor could they go to Mercury, nearest planet to the sun. It has no air, and the temperature at it's equator is that of molten lead.
-- Cedric Hardwicke (as Commentary) in The War of the Worlds (1953)
The War of the Worlds
Year: 1953

Director:
Byron Haskin
Commentary: No one would have believed in the middle of the 20th Century that human affairs were being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than Man's. Yet, across the gulf of space on the planet Mars, intellects vast and cool and unsypathetic regarded our Earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely joined their plans against us. Mars is more than 140 million miles from the sun, and for centuries has been in the last status of exhaustion. At night, temperatures drop far below zero even at its equator. Inhabitants of this dying planet looked across space with instruments and intelligences that which we have scarcely dreamed, searching for another world to which they could migrate.
-- Cedric Hardwicke (as Commentary) in The War of the Worlds (1953)
The War of the Worlds
Year: 1953

Director:
Byron Haskin
Commentary: The Martians had calculated their descent with amazing perfection and subtlety. As more of their cylinders came from the mysterious depths of space, their war machines, awesome in their power and complexity, created a wave of fear throughout the world.
-- Cedric Hardwicke (as Commentary) in The War of the Worlds (1953)