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Henry Hull Quotes

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Memorable Quotes from Henry Hull

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Master of the World
A Conversation About Pain and Concern
Dorothy Prudent Did you hurt yourself?
[after Prudent has hit his already injured head on the top of his bunk]
Prudent Of course I hurt myself!
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Master of the World
Justification and Atrocity in Conflict
Prudent And you expect us to believe, sir, that because you gave that ship warning, that your actions of this afternoon were justifiable?
[debating with Robur over dinner]
Robur I expect nothing, sir.
Prudent What you did was an act of pure barbarism, and were it not for the love I bear my daughter, and for the respect and esteem in which I hold Mr. Evans and Mr. Strock, I would rather the four of us perish in the sea than that this hell ship be preserved for the commission of further atrocities.
Robur Was it not an atrocity that that warship was built for the sole purpose of destruction?
Prudent And do you consider yourself, sir, a government unto yourself, that you can condemn other nations and wantonly declare war upon them?
Robur I am a man unto myself, Mr. Prudent, who has declared war against war! That is my purpose, sir! The purpose for which this ship was built! To end for all time the scourge of warfare!
[rising angrily]
John Strock How do you propose to do that, sir?
Robur By using the threat of invincible power, Mr. Strock. Or if necessary by using that power itself as you saw this afternoon.
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Werewolf of London
The Urgency of the Full Moon
Dr. Wilfred Glendon Dr Yogami, didn't they tell you that I wasn't seeing anyone today?
Dr. Yogami I thought, perhaps, you might see me.
Dr. Wilfred Glendon Come another day, please.
Dr. Yogami Another day would be too late. What will happen before morning, I cannot say. Tonight is the first night of the full moon.
Dr. Wilfred Glendon Still harping on that old wives tale of yours?
Dr. Yogami Would it were in old wives tale.
Dr. Wilfred Glendon Exactly what do you want of me?
Dr. Yogami Two blossoms of the Mariphasa flower in there would save two souls tonight.
Dr. Wilfred Glendon Tonight. But I thought you said the Mariphasa was a cure.
Dr. Yogami No. An antidote. Effective only for a few hours. Won't you let me see the results of your experiment?
Dr. Wilfred Glendon Sorry. When my experiments are completed I will show the results to the entire world. Not before. Now, sir, I must wish you good day.
Dr. Yogami Then there is nothing more to be said?
Dr. Wilfred Glendon Nothing
Dr. Yogami Good day. But remember this, Dr. Glendon. The werewolf instinctively seeks to kill the thing it loves best.
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The Fountainhead
The Struggle Between Individuality and Compromise
Dominique Francon I wish I had never seen your building. It's the things that we admire or want that enslave us. I'm not easy to bring into submission.
[to Roark]
Henry Cameron I told them that the form of a building must follow its function.
Gail Wynand Build it as a monument to that spirit which is yours - and could have been mine.
[to Roark, regarding the Wynand Building]
Peter Keating You can't hope to survive unless you learn how to compromise. Now, watch me! In just a few short years I'll shoot to the top of the architectural profession because I'm going to give the public what it wants.
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Werewolf of London
The Perception of Being Single
Mrs. Moncaster Are you a single gentleman, sir?
Dr. Wilfred Glendon Singularly single, madame. More single than I ever realized that it was possible for a human being to be.
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Werewolf of London
The Nature of Lycanthropy Explained
Dr. Wilfred Glendon This flower is an antidote for..for what?
[skeptical]
Dr. Yogami Werewolfery. Lycanthrophobia is the medical term for the affliction I speak of.
Dr. Wilfred Glendon And do you expect me to believe that a man so affected actually becomes a wolf under the influence of the full moon?
Dr. Yogami No. The werewolf is neither man nor wolf but a satanic creature, with the worst qualities of both.
Dr. Wilfred Glendon I'm afraid, sir, but I gave up my belief in goblins, witches, personal devils, and werewolves at the age of six.
Dr. Yogami But that does not alter the fact that in workaday, modern, London today at this very moment there are two cases of werewolfery known to me.
Dr. Wilfred Glendon And how did these unfortunate gentleman contract this medieval unpleasantness?
Dr. Yogami From the bite of another werewolf. These men are doomed but for this flower the Mariphasa.
[reaches for Glendon's arm]
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Master of the World
Responsibility and Madness in Warfare Debate
Prudent You, sir, are mad! Quite, quite mad!
Robur How like the reasoning of your kind, Mr. Prudent. All well and sane to be the owner of factories, that products of which cause the violent deaths of millions in wartime and in peace. But to kill hundreds or even thousands with the aim of ending such deaths for all time? This is "madness.
Prudent And do you, sir, consider the man who makes a weapon responsible for the action of the man who buys it?
Robur Yes, I do, sir! All men are responsible to all other men.
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Jesse James
The Complex Legacy of Jesse James
Major Rufus Cobb There ain't no question about it. Jesse was an outlaw, a bandit, a criminal. Even those that loved him ain't got no answer to that. But we ain't ashamed of him. I don't know why, but I don't think even America is ashamed of Jesse James. Maybe it's because he was bold and lawless, like we all of us like to be sometimes. Maybe it's because we understand a little that he wasn't altogether to blame for what his times made him. Maybe it's because for ten years he licked the tar out of five states. Or maybe it's because he was so good at what he was doing. I don't know. All I do know is he was one of the doggondest, goldangest, dagblamdest buckaroos that ever rode across these United States of America!
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Werewolf of London
The Risks of Marriage and Fame
Dr. Wilfred Glendon My dear wife has just been scolding me.
Miss Ettie Coombes Yes, how you manage to keep your dear wife is a mystery to me. Skirmishing off the way you do. Leaving her alone, months on end.
Lisa Glendon Anyhow, I knew the risk I took when I married one of the black Glendons of Malvern.
Miss Ettie Coombes Marrying any man is risky. Marrying a famous man is kissing catastrophe.
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Werewolf of London
A Farewell Filled with Regret
Dr. Wilfred Glendon Thanks... Thanks for the bullet. It was the only way... In a few moments now... I shall know why all this had to be. Lisa... good bye. Good bye Lisa. I'm sorry I... I couldn't have made you happier.
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Jesse James
A Conversation About Loss and Regret
Major Rufus Cobb There's no use. She's dead. This is bad! Mighty bad! I'm sure sorry!
[standing over Mrs. Samuel's body]
Barshee Well, I'm sorry too!
Major Rufus Cobb Oh, I wasn't talking about her. She's gone. It's you I'm sorry fer.
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Werewolf of London
A Conversation on Plant Evolution and Collection
Dr. Yogami May I congratulate you sir, on the amazing collection of plants you've assembled here.
Dr. Wilfred Glendon Thank you.
Dr. Yogami Evolution was in a strange mood, when that creation came along.
Dr. Wilfred Glendon Yes.
Dr. Yogami It makes one wonder just where the plant world leaves off and the animal world begins.
Dr. Wilfred Glendon Have I met you before, sir?
Dr. Yogami In Tibet, once. But only for a moment... In the dark.
Dr. Wilfred Glendon In the dark?
Dr. Yogami Let me introduce myself again. I am Dr. Yogami.
Dr. Wilfred Glendon How do you do, sir?
Dr. Yogami Like yourself, a student, a nurturist of plants.
Dr. Wilfred Glendon Dr. Yogami.
Dr. Yogami Pardon?
Dr. Wilfred Glendon Do I understand you to say, that we met in Tibet?
Dr. Yogami Yes. And unless I'm mistaken, we were both on a similar mission.
Dr. Wilfred Glendon Yes.
Dr. Yogami Would it be intrusive if I should ask you... If you were successful?
Dr. Wilfred Glendon In what?
Dr. Yogami In obtaining a specimen of the Mariphasa lumina lupina: The phosphorescent wolf flower. Well, you know it only blooms under the rays of the moon. My specimens died on the journey back.
Dr. Wilfred Glendon As a scientist, sir, as a botanist you actually believe that this flower takes its life from moonlight?
Dr. Yogami I do.
Dr. Wilfred Glendon So far I've been unsuccessful in persuading mine to bloom by moonlight or any other kind of light.
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Jesse James
Debate on Hatred and Legalities in Liberty
Zerelda If I could just think of some way to let you know how wrong you are.
Jesse James No use, honey. It's just like I always told you: I hate the railroads... and when I hate, I've gotta do somethin about it.
Major Rufus Cobb That's the stuff! People ain't hating nowadays like they used to. They gettin soft. I got to admit that I like a man that hauls off and hates good and hard. It's the lawyers - gol-dang it - it's the lawyers are messin up the whole world! Why ten years ago, here in Liberty, we didn't have no lawyers and we got along fine. Man killed somebody, then somebody killed him, and the marshal shot em all and that was the end of it. But, look at it today: right here in Liberty we got hundreds of lawyers, thousands of em, as far as the eye can see: nothing but lawyers!
Zerelda Uncle Rufe, there are only TWO lawyers in Liberty.
Major Rufus Cobb Huh? Two? Is that all? Then they run around too much. Gol-dang it, I'm gonna write me an editorial about that. Roy!
[he goes out into the newspaper office]
Roy Yes, sir?
Major Rufus Cobb Take an editorial on lawyers.
Roy Liars?
Major Rufus Cobb That'll do. We'll begin easy. Paragraph: If we are ever to have law and order in the West, the first thing we gotta do is take out all the lawyers and shoot em down like dogs.
[he begins to dictate]
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