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The Scarlet Pimpernel

The Scarlet Pimpernel

Sir Andrew Ffoulkes: Know her? Everyone in London knows Lady Blakeney.


--Leslie Howard (as Sir Percy Blakeney / The Scarlet Pimpernel) in The Scarlet Pimpernel

The Animal Kingdom

The Animal Kingdom

Tom Collier: [Explaining his relationship with Daisy to his fiancée, Cecilia] Cee, we've... Well, we've been everything possible to each other, of course, but...
Cecilia 'Cee' Henry Collier: Yes, Tom.
Tom Collier: ...at the same time free as air. I mean, there has never been a feeling of conventional responsibility towards each other's involvement.
Cecilia 'Cee' Henry Collier: I can understand that.
Tom Collier: Can you, Cee? 'Cause I never could.


--Leslie Howard (as ) in The Animal Kingdom

Pimpernel Smith

Pimpernel Smith

[after Professor Horatio Smith disappears behind a cloud of smoke]
Professor Horatio Smith: Don't worry, I shall be back...
[Gunshots from the general fire through the smoke]
Professor Horatio Smith: ...we shall *all* be back.


--Leslie Howard (as ) in Pimpernel Smith

In Which We Serve

In Which We Serve

[first lines]
Voice: [voiceover] This is the story of a ship...
[long sequence of ship-building and launch]


--Leslie Howard (as Voice) in In Which We Serve

In Which We Serve

In Which We Serve

[last lines]
Voice: [voiceover] Here ends the story of a ship, but there will always be other ships; we are an island race, through all our centuries the sea has ruled our destiny. There will always be other ships and men to sail in them. It is these men, in peace or war, to whom we owe so much. Above all victories, beyond all loss, in spite of changing values and a changing world they give to us, their countrymen, eternal and indominitable pride.
[sequence of ships launching and at sea]
Capt. Edward V. Kinross: Open fire!
Voice: God bless our ships... and all who sail in them.
[close-up of the Royal Navy ensign]


--Leslie Howard (as Voice) in In Which We Serve


Pimpernel Smith

Pimpernel Smith

[Smith now caught by the gestapo]
Professor Horatio Smith: This must be a big moment for you.
General von Graum: A minor satisfaction... I wanted to get you out of my system before I turn my mind to more important matters. You've become a great nuisance to me, professor. Almost an obsession. But everything comes to an end.
Professor Horatio Smith: What particular end did you plan for me?
General von Graum: Need we go into details?... At least it will be quick.
Professor Horatio Smith: But violent, I suppose?... A strange end for one who despises violence... at the hands of those who worship it. The new German God...
General von Graum: Of course we worship it. Violence means power, and power crushes opposition. The epoch of the council chamber is over, professor. I'll tell you that power, strength and violence will rule the world!
Professor Horatio Smith: Why are you sweating, my dear general? It isn't very warm. Are you afraid of something?
General von Graum: Afraid? We Germans fear nothing
Professor Horatio Smith: Ah. Because you have a pistol?
General von Graum: Yes, I have a pistol. It has eight bullets. Eight lives.
Professor Horatio Smith: And I have twenty-eight lives.
General von Graum: Huh?
Professor Horatio Smith: Scientists, men of letters, artists, doctors... 28! Saved from your pagan pistol. And all you've got is my humble self. Not a very profitable transaction.
General von Graum: Mm. We can afford to make a loss, our profits will be tremendous. Tonight we march against Poland, and tomorrow we'll see the dawn of a new order. We shall make a German empire of the world... Why do I talk to you? You are a dead man
Professor Horatio Smith: May a dead man say a few words to you, general, for your enlightenment? You will never rule the world... because you are doomed. All of you who demoralized and corrupted a nation are doomed. Tonight you will take the first step along a dark road from which there is no turning back. You will have to go on and on, from one madness to another, leaving behind you a wilderness of misery and hatred. And still, you will have to go on... because you will find no horizon... see no dawn... until at last you are lost and destroyed. You are doomed, captain of murderers. And one day, sooner or later, you will remember my words...
[Train whistles]


--Leslie Howard (as ) in Pimpernel Smith

Gone with the Wind

Gone with the Wind

Ashley: I ain't so very drunk, Melly.


--Leslie Howard (as Ashley Wilkes) in Gone with the Wind

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