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.
--Henry Stephenson (as ) in Cynara
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.
--Henry Stephenson (as ) in Cynara
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
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
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
--Henry Stephenson (as Mr. Bryant) in Mr. Lucky
Mr. Simon Fletcher:
You know my mental mastodons of the law: Barton, Barton, and a son of a Barton.
--Henry Stephenson (as ) in Wise Girl
--Henry Stephenson (as ) in Wise Girl
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
--Henry Stephenson (as Sir Charles Macefield) in The Charge of the Light Brigade
[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.
--Henry Stephenson (as ) in If I Were Free
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.
--Henry Stephenson (as ) in If I Were Free
Sir Charles Macefield:
[throws letter into the fire] For conspicuous gallantry.
--Henry Stephenson (as Sir Charles Macefield) in The Charge of the Light Brigade
--Henry Stephenson (as Sir Charles Macefield) in The Charge of the Light Brigade
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
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