Film Quotes by Leslie Howard
27 quotes
Year: 1936
Director:
Archie Mayo
Director:
Archie Mayo
Alan Squier:
The trouble with me, Gabrielle, is I, I belong to a vanishing race. I'm one of the intellectuals.
Gabrielle Maple: That, that means you've got brains!
Alan Squier: Hmmm. Yes. Brains without purpose. Noise without sound, shape without substance.
Gabrielle Maple: That, that means you've got brains!
Alan Squier: Hmmm. Yes. Brains without purpose. Noise without sound, shape without substance.
--
Leslie Howard
(as Alan Squier)
in
The Petrified Forest
(1936)
Year: 1937
Director:
Archie Mayo
Director:
Archie Mayo
Basil Underwood:
After all, what am I? Just the greatest actor in the world.
--
Leslie Howard
(as Basil Underwood)
in
It's Love I'm After
(1937)
Year: 1937
Director:
Archie Mayo
Director:
Archie Mayo
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Leslie Howard
(as Basil Underwood)
in
It's Love I'm After
(1937)
Year: 1937
Director:
Archie Mayo
Director:
Archie Mayo
Basil Underwood:
I say, Digges, you don't suppose I've aroused her slap-me-again-I-love-it complex?
--
Leslie Howard
(as Basil Underwood)
in
It's Love I'm After
(1937)
Year: 1932
Director:
Alexander Korda
Director:
Alexander Korda
Max Tracey:
Who's that lady?
Hotel clerk: 210-11-12.
Max Tracey: But her name?
Hotel clerk: Robertson. MISS Robertson. Miss Sylvia Robertson. Here with her Pa. Arrived yesterday from Johannesburg. Leaves tomorrow. Destination: the Austrian Tyrol. Age: 20. Unmarried. FEMALE. Is there anything else you'd like to know?
Hotel clerk: 210-11-12.
Max Tracey: But her name?
Hotel clerk: Robertson. MISS Robertson. Miss Sylvia Robertson. Here with her Pa. Arrived yesterday from Johannesburg. Leaves tomorrow. Destination: the Austrian Tyrol. Age: 20. Unmarried. FEMALE. Is there anything else you'd like to know?
--
Leslie Howard
(as Max Tracey)
in
Reserved for Ladies
(1932)
Year: 1941
Director:
Michael Powell
Director:
Michael Powell
Philip Armstrong Scott:
Nazis? That explains your arrogance, stupidity, and bad manners.
--
Leslie Howard
in
Forty-Ninth Parallel
(1941)
Year: 1938
Director:
Anthony Asquith*Leslie Howard
Director:
Anthony Asquith*Leslie Howard
Professor Henry Higgins:
Where the devil are my slippers, Eliza?
--
Leslie Howard
(as Professor Henry Higgins)
in
Pygmalion
(1938)
Year: 1941
Director:
Leslie Howard
Director:
Leslie Howard
Professor Horatio Smith:
[having just dodged the Nazis again] Well I'm almost ashamed to use that old trick. But it nearly always works.
--
Leslie Howard
in
Pimpernel Smith
(1941)
Year: 1941
Director:
Leslie Howard
Director:
Leslie Howard
Professor Horatio Smith:
I'm so glad to find you're not busy, because I've been doing a little research for you...
General von Graum: That's just what I wanted to do.
Professor Horatio Smith: ...On the identity of Shakespeare.
General von Graum: I'd like to know how you spent this afternoon.
Professor Horatio Smith: What's the matter with you? You seem upset. I spent the afternoon at the library at the embassy. Now this, this proves conclusively that Shakespeare wasn't really Shakespeare at all.
General von Graum: No?
Professor Horatio Smith: No. He was the Earl of Oxford. Now you can't pretend that the Earl of Oxford was a German, can you?
Professor Horatio Smith: [Speaking to the German Officer] Can you?
German Officer: No!
Professor Horatio Smith: Well there you are.
German Officer: I didn't come here to discuss Shakespeare. If you want me, you know where I am.
Professor Horatio Smith: The Earl of Oxford was a very bright Elizabethan light.
General von Graum: That's just what I wanted to do.
Professor Horatio Smith: ...On the identity of Shakespeare.
General von Graum: I'd like to know how you spent this afternoon.
Professor Horatio Smith: What's the matter with you? You seem upset. I spent the afternoon at the library at the embassy. Now this, this proves conclusively that Shakespeare wasn't really Shakespeare at all.
General von Graum: No?
Professor Horatio Smith: No. He was the Earl of Oxford. Now you can't pretend that the Earl of Oxford was a German, can you?
Professor Horatio Smith: [Speaking to the German Officer] Can you?
German Officer: No!
Professor Horatio Smith: Well there you are.
German Officer: I didn't come here to discuss Shakespeare. If you want me, you know where I am.
Professor Horatio Smith: The Earl of Oxford was a very bright Elizabethan light.
--
Leslie Howard
in
Pimpernel Smith
(1941)
Year: 1941
Director:
Leslie Howard
Director:
Leslie Howard
Professor Horatio Smith:
Would you like to see it? There we are, you see. Buried with all his weapons, you see, presumably, in the belief that there might be a rearmament program in the hereafter. An ancient Teuton. "Alas poor Yorick, get thee to my lady's chamber, my dear general. Tell her that though she paint an inch thick, to this favour must she come, make her laugh at that." The Earl of Oxford wrote that, you know.
--
Leslie Howard
in
Pimpernel Smith
(1941)