Lex Luthor quotes from Smallville

Lex

I'm releasing our findings to every research facility across the globe. Evan's life may offer hope for generations to come.

Clark

He was a special kid, Lex. I can't help wondering what kind of man he would've become.

Lex

A good one... as long as you were in his life. I bet you're gonna be a great dad someday, Clark.

Clark

So will you, Lex.

Lex

I don't know about that. Look, we're all reflections of how we've been raised. Your parents gave you encouragement and support. Mine chose the opposite track. I plan on leaving a different kind of legacy.

Lex

You're making a big mistake Jason. I know she's your mother but don't think for a second she won't turn on you. Trust me on this one.

Genevieve

Jason...

Jason

It's okay, Mother. I don't expect him to understand the meaning of family loyalty, especially when the only thing running through the Luthor blood is betrayal.

Genevieve

Lex, your father has one of the stones.

Lex

And what do you want from me?

Genevieve

I have a feeling that he'd sooner die than give up that stone. But all that might change if his own flesh and blood were at stake.

Lex

You obviously don't know my father as well as I do.

Genevieve

I hope for your sake you're wrong.

Lex

Happiness is such an elusive creature, isn't it? We all wish for it, but very few ever really find it.

Chloe

Doesn't make the search any less important.

Lex

Or the destination... Do you remember the last time we stood here together? I ended up unconscious on the ground and somehow you landed in the artic.

Chloe

I told you, I don't remember what happened.

Lex

Then why have you been avoiding me, Chloe? It's been weeks since I brought you back from that hospital in the Yukon where I found you.

Chloe

I've been busy, Lex.

Lex

Right, I heard being a third wheel is very time consuming.

Chloe

Clark and Lana are finally together. They're happy. That's all that should matter to a real friend.

Lex

I think you know more than you're telling me about what happened in this cave, about Clark's involvement. I know you think you're being a good friend, but you're playing a very dangerous game.

Chloe

Kinda like covering up the spaceship Lana said crashed during the meteor shower.

Lex

Lana was hysterical. She didn't see what she thought she did.

Chloe

Well, maybe you didn't either, Lex. Stop asking me questions or I will start asking my own.

Lana

Clark's medical file.

Lex

That's confidential.

Lana

I heard you asked for it at the hospital. All of his test results came back normal. When are you going to realize, Lex, that he's just like the rest of us?

Lex

Do you really believe that, or is that what you have to tell yourself to stay in a relationship with him? You've had your doubts about him too. You can't deny it.

Lana

I was wrong. Believe me, there is nothing unusual about Clark. Except his ability to see the good in people who don't deserve it.

Lex

I think you're forgetting something, Lana. Whatever new lie he told you, however he swept it under the rug, a normal person doesn't rise from the dead.

Why would a man of your stature be so concerned with the comings and goings of a freshman farmboy?

Lex

If you know so much about me, Professor, I'm sure you realize I donate a considerable amount of funding to this university that allows me an unusual amount of access to the dean and the academic review board.

Yeah, I know. The buying of influence is part of my second semester.

Lex

If you have a second semester.

Clark

Is it true, Lex?

Lex

You know, after you've been M.I.A. for weeks, I don't think a hello is too much to ask for.

Clark

How long you been planning to run for state senate?

Lex

Several months now, and if you're implying I should have told you, you might want to rethink the barrier you've drawn on this friendship.

Lex

Tell me what you remember about King David. Humor me.

Clark

King David... Slew Goliath, saved his people.

Lex

And afterward, he saw a beautiful woman bathing and fell madly in love. The problem was, she turned out to be his best friend's wife. So you know what our great hero did? He sent his best friend off to die in battle so he could have her to himself.

Clark

Kind of leave that part out, don't they?

Lex

We all need to believe in heroes, Clark, and even the best ones are far from perfect.

Lex

The investigation into Clark Kent has yielded a surprising revelation. Clark Kent is not of this Earth. He is an alien; an intruder from a distant galaxy, the first vanguard of an invasion.

Clark

No! No! That's not what I am!

Lex

But I know his weakness. I know how to stop this strange visitor from another planet. I'm the one that's gonna kill you, Clark.

Lois

Let me give you a little friendly advice: Bow out of the race before a pesky little squirrel digs up one of your rotten acorns.

Lex

Well, thanks, Lois. You know, there's nothing more valuable than the savvy political advice of a muffin-peddling college dropout. Speaking of, do you have banana blueberry today?

Lex

Dr. Litvack told me the odds of survival I had going into surgery. Pretty reckless roll of the dice, don't you think?

Lionel

On the contrary, son. What I did may appear callous, but opting for my son to have surgery was a deliberate decision.

Lex

But it wasn't your decision to make, was it? You went against the doctors' advice not because you wanted to save me, but because you couldn't bear having a cripple for a son.

Lionel

You may hate me for taking the risk, but I had to make a choice. And you're alive, and you can walk. I had to give you that chance.

Lex

And what if I hadn't made it? How would you have justified your decision then? How dare you play God with my life.

Lex

I want you to pull the pin on that grenade. Find it, fake it... do whatever it takes to knock Jonathan Kent out of the race. I want to be senator. I want it all.

Consider it done. Merry Christmas.

Lex

[delirious] Do you think I'd look better with hair?

Lana

Um, I don't know. I've never thought about it.

Lex

Oh, I have. I've thought about a lot of things... Clark has really nice hair.

Lana

Yeah. Yeah, I guess he does.

Lex

Does he know?

Lana

That he has nice hair?

Lionel

It must be humbling to pull all those strings and find out they're attached to nothing.

Lex

Especially when your father's the one holding the scissors.

Lionel

What good is having a family if they don't watch out for each other?

Lex

On the off chance that unshakable family loyalty fails, there's always those Luthor closets to rummage through.

Lionel

All right, let's skip the prologue, Lex. What ancient skeleton do you think you've dug up this time?

Lex

Well, it's not quite a skeleton yet. More like a freshly laid corpse... I wonder how Martha Kent would feel if she knew you had a secret meeting with her husband right before he died. Now, a transgression like that would test the virtues of even the most forgiving woman.