Lex Luthor quotes from Smallville

Lex Luthor

They say music hath charms to sooth the savage breast.

Adam Knight

Don't count on it.

Clark Kent

Lex, you've done so much already, but I need a big favor.

Lex Luthor

Name it.

Clark Kent

I need $20,000 dollars, cash.

Lex Luthor

You're right. That is big. You mind telling me what it's for?

Clark Kent

My friend got mixed up with the wrong crowd, and now they're making him pay for it.

Lex Luthor

Is this the old proverbial friend who happens to be you?

Lex Luthor

My father's been strangely stubborn about liquidating that property. Every market indicator says to sell, but he insists the neighborhood's about to be revitalized.

Chloe Sullivan

The only thing being revitalized in that neighborhood is the graffiti.

Lex Luthor

Chloe, I think I should take it from here.

Chloe Sullivan

Lex, I'm perfectly capable--

This has nothing to do with your capability. I'm worried about your safety. When my father's involved with covert research, people tend to get hurt.

Lex Luthor

Tell the cops to drop the charges and give me immunity, and I'll give you the biggest arrest of your career.

What are we talking about?

Lex Luthor

I'll help you bring down my father.

Lex Luthor

You know, Dad, they say mental illness is hereditary. I'm willing to accept my break with reality. Are you?

Lionel Luthor

Oh, Lex, men of vision have so often been mocked. Galileo knew it was the earth that orbited the sun, and he was sentenced to death for that discovery.

Lex Luthor

Where's the Inquisition when you need it?

Lex Luthor

Look, I'm afraid I'm a little jaded in the romance department. The only thing I know about relationships is that someone usually winds up getting hurt.

Lana Lang

And you don't think I can trust Clark to not do that.

Lex Luthor

I don't think it's about trust. It's like the German poet Rilke said, "A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them. They're who they've been throughout your whole relationship".

Chloe Sullivan

I do know that because of you, my dad can't get a job. So why would I help you?

Lex Luthor

Because my father's the one who ordered his dismissal. You know that's the truth, don't you?

Chloe Sullivan

Meaning that my family's future is just one chess move in the endless game of one-upmanship played by you and your dad.

Lex Luthor

It's not a game, Chloe. You're the only one who can get me the truth.

Chloe Sullivan

Why do you keep doing this to yourself? Why can't you just walk away from your father?

Lex Luthor

Because he won't give me the only thing I've ever wanted from him.

Chloe Sullivan

And that would be?

Lex Luthor

I want him to love me.

Lex

Lana told you about my nocturnal adventure, didn't she? I can see I spooked her. That usually sends her running to you.

Clark

Are you okay?

Lex

Well, I haven't lost my mind, Clark, if that's what you mean. I just indulged in a little harmless sleepwalking, that's all.

Clark

Lex, you were on a ledge yelling Julian's name. You could've killed yourself.

Lex

You know, when I found you asleep in the middle of Route 8 last year, I don't remember questioning your mental health.

Clark

I hadn't just spent seven weeks at Belle Reve.

Lex

According to my doctors I'm cured. But apparently, a clean bill of health isn't good enough for Clark Kent.

Lex

Summerholt is a highly respected institution.

Lionel

Respected? Lex, this Garner character operates on the outer fringes of accepted science.

Lex

Well, then you should feel right at home.

Lex

I told you to let it go, but you kept pursuing it. You even involved my father.

Clark

Yeah, well, believe me, Lex. He's the last person I'd ask for help, but I didn't have any other options.

Lex

He betrayed you, Clark. He stopped my sessions with Garner by offering you up as a lab rat. I've tried to keep my father away from you, but he's obsessed. If I'd got back those seven weeks, I could've finally stopped him.

Clark

Maybe, Lex. Or maybe you'd make it worse. You're always telling me how you don't want to turn into your father, and I truly believe that. But the more you two go at each other, the more like him you become. And the more people get hurt.

Lex

I will never become my father. I would never sacrifice you or anybody I cared about to bring him down.

Clark

Lex.... why does your father hate you so much?

Clark

Did you do this?

Lex

What possible reason would I have to ransack the office of an obscure teaching assistant?

Clark

Then tell me why you're here.

Lex

You first.

Clark

Jeremiah was gonna help me with a term paper.

Lex

Term paper. So your visit doesn't have anything to do with the fact that he went ballistic in the caves last night and absconded with a sacred Kawatche artifact.

Clark

I didn't know.

Lex

I'm surprised. I mean, you usually keep such a close eye on everything that happens in the caves... for those term papers you're always writing.

Lionel

"Forgive them for they know not what they do". Is that what you expect from me? Forgiveness?

Lex

Don't try to make me out as your own personal Judas. I didn't come here for forgiveness. I came here to congratulate you on sweeping another mishap under the rug. Emily Dinsmore.

Lionel

Ah, yes, Emily Dinsmore. I should've remembered. You should've warned them. Belle Reve has a habit of misplacing its patients. The details. I've always tried to teach you, Lex. The devil is in the details. If you don't pay attention to the details, he'll win.

Lex

Then it's a good thing I'm a fast learner. You went through all the trouble of having your own son committed to an asylum and shooting 600 volts of electricity through his body just to cover up your trespasses, but like I said, Dad, you've gotten careless.

Lex

You knew all along my father murdered his parents, didn't you? And you never told me... I always assumed there was a tacit agreement among friends to share that kind of information with each other.

Clark

Not when it can get your friend killed. Lex, your father threw you into a mental institution and fried your brain. If you found that out all over again, I thought he might kill you, and I couldn't live with that.

Lex

You're a good friend, Clark. If you tell the judge what you just told me, my father will be exchanging his Armani for an orange jumpsuit.

Lex

There's so much of my own life I can't explain. I've survived countless brushes with death, and it all started with this car crash. If I'm guilty of anything, it's that I've inherited my father's eccentric curiosity for the unexplained.

Clark

You've inherited his dishonesty.

Lex

Clark, look me in the eye and tell me you don't have any hidden places of your own where you keep your deep, dark secrets.

Clark

Ever since I've met you, I've been defending you, making excuses for you to people like Pete, like my parents. Telling them, "You can trust Lex Luthor. He's a good guy. He's nothing like his father". I was wrong.