Lex Luthor quotes from Smallville

Clark

We need to talk!

Lex

And you should work on your entrance, Clark. Bit abrupt, don't you think?

Clark

What do you know about Syntechnics?

Lex

See, now that's exactly what I mean. No small talk, no pleasantries — just straight to the accusations.

Clark

I haven't accused you of anything.

Lex

You don't have to. Your, uh, righteous tone says it all. So what am I have supposed to have done this time?

Lex

Is this going to be another apology?

Lana

Well, they don't make a card for "Sorry I got you killed".

What was it then that brought you to me? Oh yes, you were shot coming out of a meeting with the man you hired to destroy Jonathan Kent's reputation, so you could become senator. How'd that turn out, by the way?

Lex

If you're really my dead mother, wouldn't you know?

It was a rhetorical question, Alexander; of course I know.

Lionel

It was you, Lex. I know it.

Lex

What?

Lionel

Disabling my limo in the path of an oncoming train. You know that kind of melodrama went out of style with silent movies.

Lex

I may not like you very much, Dad, but you're a valuable asset to LuthorCorp. Killing you would hurt the bottom line.

Lionel

Your concern is truly touching.

Lex

Lincoln Cole. That was the name of the man who did all this.

Lionel

You found him.

Lex

In a bar around the block. He was toasting your demise. Didn't care if he was caught, as long as you were dead. The authorities had to sedate him when he found out you weren't.

Lionel

Powerful men, son. We attract the occasional lunatic.

Lex

It wasn't insanity that drove him to that, Dad. It was you.

Lionel

We all make mistakes, son.

Lex

And yours almost cost Martha Kent her life.

Lionel

Well, I'm just thankful the elevator safety breaks slowed us down enough to survive the fall.

Lex

Yeah, you should be. Especially since Cole disabled them.

Lionel

That's enough to make a man believe in miracles. Isn't, son?

Lex

I don't suppose Clark had any thing to do with that divine intervention?

Lana

Actually, I wasn't your only visitor. Clark stopped by earlier.

Lex

Really?

Lana

Yeah.

Lex

It's too bad it takes a near-death experience to bring old friends together.

Lex

One more thing, Clark. Lana called me. I don't want to hear you rifling through her stuff like a crazy roommate again. If you want something from me, don't go running to Lana to find it. You really crossed the line.

Clark

All those years we were friends, were you just waiting for me to step aside, so you could swoop in and make your move?

Lex

I don't know, Clark. All those years you told Lana you loved her, were you just waiting to walk away and break her heart? Look, there's a natural tendency to blame the person who's replaced you. I get that. But I didn't take Lana from you. You lost her all by yourself.

Clark

If you thought this friendship was so doomed from the beginning, then why did you fight so hard to keep it?

Lex

Because I wanted everything you had; the family, the inconspicuous life, the loyal girlfriend. Well, at least I walked away with the part you love the most.

Lex

Ever since that day on the bridge, you've always seen yourself as my savior; the one thing that would pull me off the dark path I'd started. See, that's why you cling to the idea that there's still some good in me. You don't want to face the fact that you might have failed.

Clark

Or maybe I just can't believe that someone would have so little willpower.

Lex

It's a little hard to compete with the iron willpower it takes to kill one of your best friends.

Lex

Look, I can never make up for what happened. All I can do is move forward and try to rebuild everything I've damaged.

Lana

That might not be easy.

Lex

Well, nothing worth it ever is.

Lex

Well I forgot what a concerned parent you are. That's why you're having me followed, isn't it? To make sure I don't destroy the rest of the world?

Lionel

If I were having you followed, son, you would never know it. I can guarantee you that.

Lex

Happiness is just a feeling of euphoria. It's your brain chemistry going into overdrive. That's why so many relationships fail when the honeymoon ends and reality sets in.

Lana

Wow, have you always been such a romantic?

Lex

You've always had an eye for beauty. It's a Latin name, formositas falsus. "Beauty that belies a dark nature".

Clark

So, even your plants have hidden agendas.

Lex

Well, I guess it all comes down to survival of the fittest. Doesn't it?

Clark

A strange vine has cropped up over the ridge at Lone Pine. It's attacking people.

Lex

And naturally you came to my little shop of horrors to foil my ingenious plot to repopulate the planet with vegetation. Sorry, Clark. I'm all out of evil.

Lois

[to Oliver] Well, I wasn't going to give it to you, but the tights... you're totally pulling it off.

Lex

You should see him in a tutu.

Oliver Queen

Lex Luthor... with a girl that he doesn't have to inflate.