Now, Voyager (1942)

Claude Rains: Dr. Jaquith

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Quotes 

• Dr. Jasquith : Remember what it says in the Bible, "The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away."

  Charlotte Vale : How does it feel to be the Lord?

  Dr. Jasquith : Not so very wonderful, since the Free Will Bill was passed. Too little power.

• Dr. Jasquith : I thought you came up here to have a nervous breakdown.

  Charlotte : Well, I've decided not to have one... if it's all the same to you.

• Mrs. Henry Windle Vale : No member of the Vale family has ever had a nervous breakdown.

  Dr. Jasquith : Well there's one having one now.

• Dr. Jasquith : You know, there's nothing like these old Boston homes anywhere. Here on Marlborough Street or Beacon Hill, you see them standing in a row like bastions: firm, proud, resisting the new. Houses turned in upon themselves, hugging their pride.

  Charlotte Vale : [pointedly]  Introverted, doctor?

  Dr. Jasquith : Well, I wouldn't know about that. I don't put much faith in scientific terms. I leave that to the fakers and the writers of books.

• Dr. Jasquith : This morning Charlotte, during your office appointment with me, I referred to a quotation. Remember?

  Charlotte Vale : Oh yes, Walt Whitman's.

  Dr. Jasquith : Well, I had it looked up and typed out on a slip of paper for you. If old Walt didn't have you in mind when he wrote this, he had lots of others like you. He's put into words what I'd like to say to you now. And far better than I could ever express it.

  [He hands her the paper] 

  Dr. Jasquith : Read it.

  [She takes the paper] 

  Dr. Jasquith : Bye.

  Charlotte Vale : [He leaves]  Bye.

  [Reading from the paper] 

  Charlotte Vale : "The untold want by life and land ne'er granted, / Now voyager sail thou forth to seek and find."