Elsie Stoneman:
[Ben is to be hanged. Elsie has an idea] We will ask mercy from the Great Heart.
--Lillian Gish (as Elsie Stoneman) in The Birth of a Nation
--Lillian Gish (as Elsie Stoneman) in The Birth of a Nation
Hetty Cutler Seibert:
John, the most terrible thing has happened to me. They've elected me President of the City Club.
--Lillian Gish (as Hetty Seibert) in Follow Me, Boys!
--Lillian Gish (as Hetty Seibert) in Follow Me, Boys!
Hetty Cutler Seibert:
No one is ever alone who has something good to remember.
--Lillian Gish (as Hetty Seibert) in Follow Me, Boys!
--Lillian Gish (as Hetty Seibert) in Follow Me, Boys!
Hetty Cutler Seibert:
Young man, you are a popinjay.
Ralph Hastings: Aunt Hetty...
Hetty Cutler Seibert: And you are an employer of popinjays
--Lillian Gish (as Hetty Seibert) in Follow Me, Boys!
Ralph Hastings: Aunt Hetty...
Hetty Cutler Seibert: And you are an employer of popinjays
--Lillian Gish (as Hetty Seibert) in Follow Me, Boys!
Laura Belle McCanles:
[to Pearl] Neither your father nor I found happiness in this world, and I'm afraid neither will you.
--Lillian Gish (as Laura Belle McCanles) in Duel in the Sun
--Lillian Gish (as Laura Belle McCanles) in Duel in the Sun
Lucy Burrows:
[when her father father discovers her in the Chinaman's room] 'Taint nothin' wrong! 'Taint nothin' wrong! I fell down in the doorway and wasn't nothin' wrong!
--Lillian Gish (as ) in Broken Blossoms
--Lillian Gish (as ) in Broken Blossoms
Lucy Burrows:
Don't do it, Daddy! You'll hit me once too often, and then they'll hang yer.
--Lillian Gish (as ) in Broken Blossoms
--Lillian Gish (as ) in Broken Blossoms
Mrs. Korstad:
[advising her daughter-in-law at her wedding reception] Do not permit yourself to get fat. Fat has ruined more marriages than actresses and pretty widows.
--Lillian Gish (as Mrs. Bergesen) in Commandos Strike at Dawn
--Lillian Gish (as Mrs. Bergesen) in Commandos Strike at Dawn
Rachel Cooper:
[to Ruby, sobbing in her lap] Child... You were looking for love, Ruby, in the only foolish way you knew how.
--Lillian Gish (as Rachel Cooper) in The Night of the Hunter
--Lillian Gish (as Rachel Cooper) in The Night of the Hunter
Rachel Cooper:
A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit. Neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Wherefore by their fruits, ye shall know them.
--Lillian Gish (as Rachel Cooper) in The Night of the Hunter
--Lillian Gish (as Rachel Cooper) in The Night of the Hunter
