Sherlock Holmes: Come, Watson; the game is afoot.


--Reginald Owen (as Sherlock Holmes) in A Study in Scarlet

Sherlock Holmes: You came to see me professionally.
Inspector Lestrade: Well, er, unofficially.
Sherlock Holmes: I see. Heads you win, tails I lose.


--Reginald Owen (as Sherlock Holmes) in A Study in Scarlet

Sir Henry Carmel: So many of these foreigners have foreign names.


--Reginald Owen (as Sir Henry Carmel) in Cluny Brown

Sir Henry Carmel: Well, she needn't have dropped the platter and insulted my friend. What was it she said to you?
Syrette: I remember very well, sir. It was, if I may take the liberty of repeating it, 'Nuts to the squirrels.'
Sir Henry Carmel: Doesn't make sense!
Adam Belinski: No, it doesn't. It should be 'Squirrels to the nuts.' But I have an open mind, and if someone says to me 'Nuts to the squirrels,' I accept it. You may be inclined to say that to me yourself some day, when you know me better - and I'm not so sure that you will include the 'squirrels.'
Sir Henry Carmel: [shaking his head] That's much too deep for me.


--Reginald Owen (as Sir Henry Carmel) in Cluny Brown

Thorpe Athelny: Don't stand by my chair in order to make eyes at him.


--Reginald Owen (as Thorpe Athelny) in Of Human Bondage

Thorpe Athelny: I don't think women ought to sit down at table with men.
Philip Carey: Oh! Don't you? Why not?
Thorpe Athelny: It ruins conversation. I'm sure it's very bad for them. It puts ideas in their heads. And women are never at ease with themselves when they have ideas.
Philip Carey: You sound like the old voice of England.
Thorpe Athelny: I am sir. And this is fine old Yorkshire pudding that gives me the strength to carry on.


--Reginald Owen (as Thorpe Athelny) in Of Human Bondage

Thorpe Athelny: I don't think women ougth to sit down at table with men.
Philip Carey: Oh! Don't you? Why not?
Thorpe Athelny: It ruins conversation. I'm sure it's very bad for them. It puts ideas in their heads. And women are never at ease with themselves when they have ideas.
Philip Carey: You sound like the old voice of England.
Thorpe Athelny: I am sir. And this is fine old Yorkshire pudding that gives me the strength to carry on.


--Reginald Owen (as Thorpe Athelny) in Of Human Bondage

Thorpe Athelny: I was married to a lady once. Good heavens! Never marry a lady, my boy.
Philip Carey: Oh really? Why?
Thorpe Athelny: Because a lady has a point of view, a personality and an individuality, all to double you with!


--Reginald Owen (as Thorpe Athelny) in Of Human Bondage

Thorpe Athelny: Well, I suppose youth must be served, but I must say, I'm sick and tired of serving it!


--Reginald Owen (as Thorpe Athelny) in Of Human Bondage

[Scrooge has come in after being visited by the ghosts]
Ebenezer Scrooge: Fred! My dear nephew! How are you?
Fred: Well who is this?
Ebenezer Scrooge: It's me! Your uncle Scrooge! Smile makes a difference, doesn't it?


--Reginald Owen (as Ebenezer Scrooge) in A Christmas Carol