One Man's Journey (1933)

Lionel Barrymore: Eli Watt

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• Eli Watt : I don't know much about doctoring but I know my own people, I brought Letty into this world, saw her mother go out; same strain, something's made her want to stop living.

• Sarah : You ready to go?

  Eli Watt : Where're we going?

  Sarah : Before, or after?

  Eli Watt : After?

  Sarah : Niagara Falls.

  Eli Watt : What's the matter with the Grand Canyon?

  Sarah : What?

  Eli Watt : It's further off.

• Eli Watt : You think by tearing up a $250 mortgage, you paid me back for saving that boy's arm, his life? No, his life won't be squared away until...

• Eli Watt : Now Letty, flowers never cured the smallpox.

  Letty McGinnis : No, but a little brightness never hurt, did it?

  Eli Watt : No, a little brightness never hurt, that's the best argument yet.

• Joan Stockton : I'm not marrying Jim.

  Eli Watt : Oh? Why not?

  Joan Stockton : He's not successful.

  Eli Watt : What makes someone successful?

  Joan Stockton : Being human, caring, like you.

• Eli Watt : [while the townspeople are lining up to get vaccinated]  Popular, ain't I?

  Sarah : Just about as popular as fleas on a dog.

  Eli Watt : You know what David Harum says about that - - fleas are good for a dog... keeps his mind off being a dog.

  Sarah : Heh-heh.