Claude Rains Movie Quotes & Lines – 85 Classics (+ Audio)

Updated: Oct 26, 2025

54 years old Claude Rains in the Phantom of the Opera

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1 All astronomers are amateurs. When it comes to the heavens, there's only one professional.

As Sir John Talbot in The Wolf Man (1941)

2 A thousand experiments, a thousand failures. And then, at last, the great, wonderful day.

As Dr. Jack Griffin in The Invisible Man (1933)

3 Big things have small beginnings, sir.

As Mr. Dryden in Lawrence of Arabia

4 You gonna be a democracy in this country? You gonna have a parliament? -I will tell you that when I have a country.

Claude Rains as Mr. Dryden; Arthur Kennedy as Jackson Bentley in Lawrence of Arabia

5 If we've told lies, you've told half-lies. And a man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it.

As Mr. Dryden in Lawrence of Arabia

6 You policemen are always in such a hurry. As if dead men hadn't all eternity.

As Sir John Talbot in The Wolf Man (1941)

7 To some people, life is very simple. They decide that this is good, that is bad, this is wrong, that's right.

As Sir John Talbot in The Wolf Man (1941)

8 Now, others of us find that good, bad, right, wrong are many-sided, complex things. We try to see every side. But the more we see, the less sure we are.

As Sir John Talbot in The Wolf Man (1941)

9 However, I do believe that most anything can happen to a man in his own mind.

As Sir John Talbot in The Wolf Man (1941)

10 Dad! -What is it? -Take the cane with you. -What do I want with a cane? -Please. Just take it with you. Please. -All right.

As The Wolf Man in The Wolf Man (1941)

Claude Rains Movie Quotes & Lines – 85 Classics (+ Audio)

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