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.


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

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

Basil Underwood: Have you seen a mad woman 'round here?
Butler: Which one sir?


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

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

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?


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

Philip Armstrong Scott: Nazis? That explains your arrogance, stupidity, and bad manners.


--Leslie Howard (as ) in Forty-Ninth Parallel

Professor Henry Higgins: Where the devil are my slippers, Eliza?


--Leslie Howard (as Professor Henry Higgins) in Pygmalion

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 (as ) in Pimpernel Smith

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.


--Leslie Howard (as ) in Pimpernel Smith

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 (as ) in Pimpernel Smith