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 - 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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Werewolf of London - The Nature of Lycanthropy Explained
Dr. Wilfred Glendon: [skeptical]
This flower is an antidote for..for what?
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: [reaches for Glendon's arm]
From the bite of another werewolf. These men are doomed but for this flower the Mariphasa.
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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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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 - 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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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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Master of the World - Justification and Atrocity in Conflict
Prudent: [debating with Robur over dinner]
And you expect us to believe, sir, that because you gave that ship warning, that your actions of this afternoon were justifiable?
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: [rising angrily]
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!
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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Master of the World - A Conversation About Pain and Concern
Dorothy Prudent: [after Prudent has hit his already injured head on the top of his bunk]
Did you hurt yourself?
Prudent:
Of course I hurt myself!
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Jesse James - A Conversation About Loss and Regret
Major Rufus Cobb: [standing over Mrs. Samuel's body]
There's no use. She's dead. This is bad! Mighty bad! I'm sure sorry!
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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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: [he goes out into the newspaper office]
Huh? Two? Is that all? Then they run around too much. Gol-dang it, I'm gonna write me an editorial about that. Roy!
Roy:
Yes, sir?
Major Rufus Cobb:
Take an editorial on lawyers.
Roy:
Liars?
Major Rufus Cobb: [he begins to dictate]
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.
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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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The Fountainhead - The Struggle Between Individuality and Compromise
Dominique Francon: [to Roark]
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.
Henry Cameron:
I told them that the form of a building must follow its function.
Gail Wynand: [to Roark, regarding the Wynand Building]
Build it as a monument to that spirit which is yours - and could have been mine.
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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