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Film Quotes by Henry Stephenson

9 quotes
Cynara
Year: 1932

Director:
King Vidor
Jim Warlock: Yes, but surely, if you're fond of someone, you want to be kind. At least one owes a little consideration.
John Tring: Consideration? When you're telling a woman you don't want her? It's like brushing a man's hair the morning you hang him.
Cynara
Year: 1932

Director:
King Vidor
John Tring: Call no woman respectable until she's dead.
Thirty Day Princess
Year: 1934

Director:
Marion Gering
King Anatol: It's extraordinary how much you look like Zizi! Tell me, have you any royal blood in your veins?
Princess Catterina: I don't think so, Your Majesty.
King Anatol: Well, my dear, one can never tell.
-- Henry Stephenson (as King Anatol XII) in Thirty Day Princess (1934)
Mr. Lucky
Year: 1943

Director:
H.C. Potter
Mr. Bryant: [angrily to Joe] Get out of here! Get out of here! Get your greasy black head out of here!
-- Henry Stephenson (as Mr. Bryant) in Mr. Lucky (1943)
Wise Girl
Year: 1937

Director:
Leigh Jason
Mr. Simon Fletcher: You know my mental mastodons of the law: Barton, Barton, and a son of a Barton.
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Year: 1936

Director:
Michael Curtiz
Sir Charles Macefield: Well, I'll finish my drink. I have a cowardly aversion to meeting reptiles socially 'til I've had at least one sherry and bitters.
-- Henry Stephenson (as Sir Charles Macefield) in The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936)
If I Were Free
Year: 1933

Director:
Elliott Nugent
[last lines]
Gordon Evers: Darling, are you quite sure this isn't heaven?
Sarah Cazenove: I'm quite sure it is.
Gordon Evers: What do you think, Hector?
Hector Stribling: Bless you, my children, but don't deceive yourselves. This not heaven. It's too infernally hot.
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Year: 1936

Director:
Michael Curtiz
Sir Charles Macefield: [throws letter into the fire] For conspicuous gallantry.
-- Henry Stephenson (as Sir Charles Macefield) in The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936)
Marie Antoinette
Year: 1938

Director:
W.S. Van Dyke*Julien Duvivier
Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Why, this is barbarous! Must the queen's child be born in public?
Count de Mercey: Dr. Franklin, a French monarch belongs to the public. He must be born, he must live and he must die in public.
-- Henry Stephenson (as Count de Mercey) in Marie Antoinette (1938)