Lionel Barrymore Movie Quotes & Lines – 15 Classics (+ Audio)

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1 A young man who has to sit by and watch his friends go places because he's trapped. Yes, sir, trapped into frittering his life away, playing nursemaid to a lot of garlic eaters.

(Lionel Barrymore) in It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

2 I'm not crying. Well, you're begging. That's a whole lot worse.

(Lionel Barrymore) in It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

3 You have no family, no children. You can't begin to spend all the money you've got. I suppose I should give it to miserable failures like you and that idiot brother of yours to spend for me.

(Lionel Barrymore) in It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

4 George, I am an old man, and most people hate me. But I don't like them, either, so that makes it all even.

(Lionel Barrymore) in It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

5 The envious ones say that. The suckers.

(Lionel Barrymore) in It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

6 What've you been doing, George? Playing the market with the company's money?

(Lionel Barrymore) in It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

7 Look at you. You used to be so cocky. You were going to go out and conquer the world.

(Lionel Barrymore) in It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

8 No securities, no stocks, no bonds. Nothing but a miserable little 500 equity in a life insurance policy. You're worth more dead than alive.

(Lionel Barrymore) in It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

9 Right now, his physical assets total about 95 cents. And spiritually, well there's more starch in your laundry bag!

Narrator (Lionel Barrymore) in Christmas in July (1944)

10 Are you running a business or a charity ward?

(Lionel Barrymore) in It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

Lionel Barrymore Movie Quotes & Lines – 15 Classics (+ Audio)

1 A young man who has to sit by and watch his friends go places because he's trapped. Yes, sir, trapped into frittering his life away, playing nursemaid to a lot of garlic eaters.

2 I'm not crying. Well, you're begging. That's a whole lot worse.

3 You have no family, no children. You can't begin to spend all the money you've got. I suppose I should give it to miserable failures like you and that idiot brother of yours to spend for me.

4 George, I am an old man, and most people hate me. But I don't like them, either, so that makes it all even.

5 The envious ones say that. The suckers.

6 What've you been doing, George? Playing the market with the company's money?

7 Look at you. You used to be so cocky. You were going to go out and conquer the world.

8 No securities, no stocks, no bonds. Nothing but a miserable little 500 equity in a life insurance policy. You're worth more dead than alive.

9 Right now, his physical assets total about 95 cents. And spiritually, well there's more starch in your laundry bag!

10 Are you running a business or a charity ward?

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