Lionel Luthor quotes from Smallville

Martha Kent

Why don't you just let us go? You can avoid adding kidnapping to the breaking and entering charges!

Lionel Luthor

You should listen to this woman. I find her advice invariably sound.

Lex Luthor

Clark, how did you get inside?

Lionel Luthor

The boy's resourceful, Lex. What difference does it make how he did it? He saved us. That's what's important.

Lex Luthor

Dad. I want you to know I was doing everything I could to secure your release.

Lionel Luthor

[sarcastically] Oh, I'm sure you did a great deal.

Lionel Luthor

If you were really ready to run LexCorp, there's no way I could have taken it from you. Look at this as an opportunity for us to work together again, father and son.

Lex Luthor

When I broke away from you, I swore I'd never be under your thumb again.

Lionel Luthor

It's my hope that you'll stay and rise to the challenge.

Lex Luthor

Your ego wouldn't allow it. I'll fight you on this and I'll win.

Lionel Luthor

You better have something stronger than words to back up those threats, son, because as of this moment you are just another employee.

Lex Luthor

So you took an honest man and destroyed him. And by proxy, almost ruined Jonathan Kent. How does it feel, Dad, knowing you brought this on yourself?

Lionel Luthor

But I didn't, Lex. You did... engineering your ill-advised employee coup.

Lex Luthor

And you actually believe that?

Lionel Luthor

It's all right, son. I forgive you.

Chloe Sullivan

I don't understand why the most powerful man in the city is interested in helping me.

Lionel Luthor

We're after the same thing, Miss Sullivan... the truth. You know, journalists are the midwives of history. Perhaps, with my help, we could make history together.

Lionel Luthor

I wanted to give you my gift in person, since it's obvious by now that I won't be receiving a wedding invitation.

Lex Luthor

You offered the woman I love a hundred thousand dollars to leave me.

Lionel Luthor

I did you a favor, Lex. That was the ultimate test of loyalty and she passed with flying colors. You should be thanking me.

Lex Luthor

Well, my thank you note must be lost in the mail along with your invitation.

Lionel Luthor

I like to think that I treat everyone at LuthorCorp as part of the family.

Lex Luthor

Well, that would explain the lack of loyalty.

Lionel Luthor

All right, Lex, what's the crisis? One minute you want nothing to do with me and then I'm inundated with urgent messages.

Lex Luthor

How does it feel to play God, Dad?

Lionel Luthor

The wall, Doctor. What does it say?

"The last son will rule the planet". Don't you see? It's Clark Kent!

Lex Luthor

I think that's a pretty big leap.

No! I've never seen more clearly in my life. I know exactly what has to be done.

Lionel Luthor

What is that, Doctor?

We have to kill Clark Kent, before he destroys us all.

Chloe Sullivan

You were right about Clark. He wasn't who I thought he was. I'm surprised I hadn't noticed earlier. So much for my crack journalistic instinct.

Lionel Luthor

No, no, love has a way of blinding even the sharpest minds. We don't look because we don't want to see. But once love has been stripped away, then we see the real person clearly. They're revealed to us with all their flaws, their foibles, and their secrets.

Lex Luthor

I wouldn't worry about it, Dad. I'm insured now.

Lionel Luthor

Not yet. There's some difficulty getting you underwritten by Lloyd's of London.

Lex Luthor

On what grounds?

Lionel Luthor

Your tendency to attract near-death experiences has made you too great a liability.

Lex Luthor

I would think surviving would count for something.

Lex Luthor

So you took the liberty of rewriting our family history?

Lionel Luthor

That's right. Why should I have to pay for the sins of my father?

Lex Luthor

Sounds familiar.

Lionel Luthor

How did you get in here, Lex?

Lex Luthor

Well, when people think you're insane and you're holding a rifle to their head, they, uh, tend to do what you ask.

Lex Luthor

You know what disappoints me, Dad?

Lionel Luthor

All right, tell me.

Lex Luthor

You hired pros to kill me. You always taught me, "If you want something done right, son, do it yourself!"

Lionel Luthor

When your attempt to escape failed, you sabotaged my efforts to have you released, to be cared for at home.

Lex Luthor

But I told you. I'm cured. A cured patient doesn't belong in a hospital.

Lionel Luthor

Oh, it's painful to see you like this. You know I have your best interest at heart, don't you?

Lex Luthor

The only interest you have... is staying out of prison. I'm not insane, and you know it.

Lionel Luthor

It's sad to see a man who's lost his mind. But it's tragic when he's convinced himself that he's sane.