Julian Northrup: I can't stand these holier-than-thou folks. If a man's a good Republican, or a mason or an elk, that's good enough for me. Live and let live, that's my motto.


--Lionel Barrymore (as Julian Northrup) in On Borrowed Time

Julian Northrup: I'm going away... where the woodbine twineth.


--Lionel Barrymore (as Julian Northrup) in On Borrowed Time

Mr. Crane: Come on! What's this all about? What are you wrecking that girl for?
Phroso 'Dead-Legs': You'll find out. That's why I brought you here.
Phroso 'Dead-Legs': That's Anna's child! YOUR DAUGHTER!
Phroso 'Dead-Legs': When I found Anna... she was dead! And that brat of yours was with her!
Phroso 'Dead-Legs': I had her raised in the lowest dive in Zanzibar... so you could be proud of her!
Phroso 'Dead-Legs': And now I've got a real treat comin' for her... and her father!
Mr. Crane: You're her father... not ME! She's... your daughter! YOURS!
Mr. Crane: Now listen! Your wife never went away with me... Do you hear? She never went away with me!
Mr. Crane: When she found out what I did to you... she hated me!


--Lionel Barrymore (as ) in West of Zanzibar

Peter Grimm: [to the dying William] Sleep... sleep. I wish you the pleasantest dreams a little boy can have... in this world.


--Lionel Barrymore (as ) in The Return of Peter Grimm

Sean O'Malley: I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired.


--Lionel Barrymore (as ) in Right Cross

Sen. Jackson McCanles: I once fought for that flag; I'll not fire on it.


--Lionel Barrymore (as Sen. Jackson McCanles) in Duel in the Sun

Stephen Ashe, Defense Attorney: [to Jan] I've had to drink as I've had to breathe, and you know it!


--Lionel Barrymore (as Stephen Ashe) in A Free Soul

Stephen Ashe, Defense Attorney: I wish my mother belonged to some other family.


--Lionel Barrymore (as Stephen Ashe) in A Free Soul

Sadie Thompson: [to Mr. Davidson] You've got the power to hang me but I've got the power to tell you - hang me and be damned!
Alfred Davidson: [to his wife, wiping his forehead] That girl is possessed with devils!


--Lionel Barrymore (as ) in Sadie Thompson

George Bailey: Merry Christmas, Mr. Potter!
Mr. Potter: And Happy New Year to you, in jail! Why don't you go on home? They're waiting for you!


--Lionel Barrymore (as Mr. Potter) in It's a Wonderful Life