Duke Mantee: Maybe you're right, pal.
Alan Squier: Oh, I'm eternally right. But what good does it do me?


--Leslie Howard (as Alan Squier) in The Petrified Forest

Gracie Kane: Oh, Mr. Actor Man! Where're you going?
Basil Underwood: To someplace where there are no dear little children


--Leslie Howard (as Basil Underwood) in It's Love I'm After

Grace: Well, I guess I'd better be barging along, as they say. I, er, I am sure it's getting cold by the minute.
Tom Collier: Yes, it's almost cold enough to... You know, I, I think we'd best bring in the brass monkeys tonight, don't you?


--Leslie Howard (as ) in The Animal Kingdom

Mr. Westlake: And how goes things at the Palace? All your guests quite happy?
Max Tracey: Oh, much the same as usual, sir. Everyone tends to be pessimistic before dinner and optimistic after dinner.
Mr. Westlake: And the ladies?
Max Tracey: The sins of the mothers have become the principles of the daughters.


--Leslie Howard (as Max Tracey) in Reserved for Ladies

Marcia West: What right has she to talk that way to me?
Joyce Arden: Practically none. Wives have so few rights nowadays.
Marcia West: Your wife?
Basil Underwood: Yes, my wife...
[looking at Joyce]
Basil Underwood: ... wonderful.


--Leslie Howard (as Basil Underwood) in It's Love I'm After

Mrs. Kane: I'm Mrs. Kane, my friends call me Sugar.
Basil Underwood: How sweet of them.


--Leslie Howard (as Basil Underwood) in It's Love I'm After

General von Graum: But we have one problem. "To be or not to Be?" as our great German poet said.
Professor Horatio Smith: German? But that's Shakespeare.
Professor Horatio Smith: But you don't know?
Professor Horatio Smith: Why, I know it's Shakespeare. I thought Shakespeare was English.
General von Graum: No, no, no. Shakespeare is a German. Professor Schuessbacher has proved it once and for all.
Professor Horatio Smith: Yes, how very upsetting. Still, you must admit that the English translations are most remarkable.
General von Graum: Good night.
Professor Horatio Smith: Good night. Good night. "Parting is such sweet sorrow."
General von Graum: What is that?
Professor Horatio Smith: That's one of the most famous lines in German literature.


--Leslie Howard (as ) in Pimpernel Smith

Gabrielle Maple: Petrified forest is a lot of dead trees in the desert that have turned to stone. Here's a good specimen.
Alan Squier: So that was once a tree? Hmmm. Petrified forest, eh? Suitable haven for me. Well, perhaps that's what I'm destined to become, an interesting fossil for future study.


--Leslie Howard (as Alan Squier) in The Petrified Forest

Mildred Rogers: Anything you want?
Philip Carey: Yes, if you don't mind I'd like to talk to you. Um... filthy weather, isn't it?
Mildred Rogers: Makes no difference to me. I have to be here all day.
Philip Carey: Don't talk like that. I only wanted to say something pleasant.
Mildred Rogers: Well, say it.
Philip Carey: You know you have a lovely smile. You should try using it more often.
Mildred Rogers: Oh, don't go spoofing me. A girl who works hard all day like I do. I don't have much reason to smile.
Philip Carey: Perhaps I could find a reason. Would you let me try?


--Leslie Howard (as Philip Carey) in Of Human Bondage

Alan Squier: Let there be killing. All this evening I've had a feeling of destiny closing in.


--Leslie Howard (as Alan Squier) in The Petrified Forest