Jesse McCanles: You mean to shoot down unarmed men?
Sen. Jackson McCanles: Just like rattlesnakes if they cross that line!


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

Ace Wilfong, Gangster Defendant: Mr. Ashe, a guy like me has to ride with lady luck. A squealer leaves his pals in plenty of trouble.
Stephen Ashe, Defense Attorney: Hmm, I see. You want to go to the gallows with your mouth shut.


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

Ace Wilfong, Gangster Defendant: Well, I want to marry your daughter.
Stephen Ashe, Defense Attorney: What?
Ace Wilfong, Gangster Defendant: What's wrong with that?
Stephen Ashe, Defense Attorney: The only time I hate democracy is when one of you mongrels forget where you belong... a few illegal dollars and a clean shirt and you move across the railroad tracks. Tell your boy to bring me some libations, and don't insult the guests!


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

Jesse Kiffmeyer: Are you the caretaker here?
Grandpa Clayton: [Taking offense] Caretaker, you infernal jackass! My grandfather built this dump!


--Lionel Barrymore (as ) in Saratoga

Dr. Lee Wong How: [referring to a double amputee patient from Pearl Harbor] Shall I take him back to the ward?
Dr. Leonard B. Gillespie: Ward? No, get him a private room and, oh, see that he has a carton of cigarettes and a radio and the prettiest nurse you can find.


--Lionel Barrymore (as ) in Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case

Dr. Lee Wong How: I'm small, but I'm from Brooklyn!


--Lionel Barrymore (as ) in Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case

Dr. Leonard Gillespie: Well, Mrs. Thatcher, that diet you thought out for yourself has certainly given you a lovely figure.
Mrs. Thatcher: And three days a week, I don't eat any lunch at all.
Dr. Leonard Gillespie: Oh, that's fine. That's fine... Now you just keep that up. By next year, you'll have the finest figure in the cemetary. Fools! Life's given you women free of charge a most magnificient piece of machinery possible to conceive - the human body! And you try to run it without fuel! You'll eat or you'll die! Next patient!


--Lionel Barrymore (as ) in Calling Dr. Kildare

Dr. Leonard Gillespie: You know we haven't the faintest idea yet what doctors can really do. Why, there's enough money, time and labor lost through illness to pay all the debts on Earth - to say nothing of the tragedy that's caused when some little pay envelope's shy two day's wages. But there's a day coming - I won't live to see it - when man, who didn't ask to be put on this Earth, will be guaranteed by all the resources of the human race his right to health added to his rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness!


--Lionel Barrymore (as ) in Calling Dr. Kildare

Grandpa Clayton: [Rhetorically] How do yuh think I'm gonna run a stallion farm without a stud?


--Lionel Barrymore (as ) in Saratoga

Grandpa Clayton: [to Duke] Say, we got more dead horses on this place than live ones!


--Lionel Barrymore (as ) in Saratoga