Mrs. Penelope Pennypacker: [to John Barrymore] Do sit down.
Grandma Kyser: My, my! Have an accident?
John Barrymore: No, thanks. I just had one.
[hollers as he sits down]
Mrs. Penelope Pennypacker: Oh, he must have sprained his back! I hope I have some liniments in the house!
Grandma Kyser: Have you ever tried rubbing alcohol?
John Barrymore: Not since prohibition.


--John Barrymore (as ) in Playmates

Lily Garland, aka Mildred Plotka: Yes, I tried to save you pain. I lied, yes, only to save you.
Oscar Jaffe: That's from "Sappho"!


--John Barrymore (as Oscar Jaffe) in Twentieth Century

Eve Peabody: When I married, I didn't realize that in the Czerny family there was a streak of... shall we say, eccentricity? And yet, I had warning. Why else should his grandfather have sent me, as an engagement present, one roller skate - covered with Thousand Island dressing?
Jacques Picot: [Shocked] What?
Georges Flammarion: Of course, of course I'd forgotten! The Czerny's are all like that. You know, I met an old aunt - the Countess Antonia. I thought she was an Indian. It turned out, that she used paprika instead of face powder.


--John Barrymore (as ) in Midnight

Chevalier Fabien des Grieux: [to his fellow prisoners on the prison ship] You were men - andyou have let them make animals of you!


--John Barrymore (as ) in When A Man Loves

Chevalier Fabien des Grieux: You were right, my friend, when you told me women have no souls.


--John Barrymore (as ) in When A Man Loves

François Villon: Every man has two souls - one for the world, and one for the woman he loves.


--John Barrymore (as ) in The Beloved Rogue

François Villon: Happy is Paris, where fools reign once a year - while everywhere else the fools reign all the time!


--John Barrymore (as ) in The Beloved Rogue

Gregory Vance: Gregory Vance, magnified briefly, by a kindly destiny, in a kindly land where... where greatness is within a people, not within a man; and where any man who calls himself great, is only looking at his shadow, from the shoulders of those who have lifted him up. Today, his own feet must carry him. Side by side we walk today, the big and the little, and, those we sometimes call: the down and out. A voter, by the name of Mr. Whittier, once spoke of that. Today, of all the weary year, a king of men am I. Today alike are great and small, the nameless and the known. My palace is the people's hall, the ballot box, my throne. Tomorrow, I will be quite forgotten - a bit of shadow glory, who, like the rest of you, left his mark only in a ballot box. But I will be no less a part of that total greatness because being even the least in a land where strength is so generous, is greatness in itself.


--John Barrymore (as ) in The Great Man Votes

Gregory Vance: My dear lady, I seem to detect in you perspicacity only too rare these days.
Miss Billow: Mr. Vance, you astonish me.
Gregory Vance: At times madam, I astonish myself.


--John Barrymore (as ) in The Great Man Votes

Oscar Jaffe: [lamenting Lily's departure, after trashing her lobby posters] ... O tempora, o mores!


--John Barrymore (as Oscar Jaffe) in Twentieth Century