Prince John: Any objections to the new tax, from our Saxon friends?


--Claude Rains (as Prince John) in The Adventures of Robin Hood

Prince John: Ho, varlets, bring Sir Robin food! Such insolence must support a healthy appetite!


--Claude Rains (as Prince John) in The Adventures of Robin Hood

Senator Joseph Paine: Let me go! I'm not fit to be a senator! I'm not fit to live! Expel me, not him! Willet Dam is a fraud! It's a crime against the people who sent me here - and I committed it! Every word that boy said is the truth! Every word about Taylor and me and graft and the rotten political corruption of my state! Every word of it is true! I'm not fit for office! I'm not fit for any place of honor or trust! Expel me, not that boy!


--Claude Rains (as Senator) in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

[about Rick]
Major Strasser: You give him credit for too much cleverness. My impression was that he's just another blundering American.
Captain Renault: We musn't underestimate "American blundering". I was with them when they "blundered" into Berlin in 1918.


--Claude Rains (as Captain Louis Renault) in Casablanca

[Rick has been on a long drinking binge]
Emil: [serving Rick another drink] You are becoming your *own* best customer!
Captain Renault: [surprized] Why Ricky, I'm *pleased* with you- *Now* you're beginning to live like a *Frenchman*!


--Claude Rains (as Captain Louis Renault) in Casablanca

Mrs. Henry Windle Vale: No member of the Vale family has ever had a nervous breakdown.
Dr. Jasquith: Well there's one having one now.


--Claude Rains (as Dr. Jaquith) in Now, Voyager