Green Light (1937)

Cedric Hardwicke: Dean Harcourt

Quotes 

• Dean Harcourt : I imagine we come here for the same purpose... to look off into eternity.

  Dr. Newell Paige : I don't think I'm very much concerned with eternity. My job's with the present.

  Dean Harcourt : The present troubles you?

  Dr. Newell Paige : Yes, a little. One has ideals... Troublesome things, ideals. They get in the way of logic, fair thinking. Eternity?

  [He shakes his head] 

  Dr. Newell Paige : After all, the patient feels just as much pain today even though tomorrow he thinks he may be sitting on the edge of a cloud, strumming a harp.

  Dean Harcourt : And you're concerned with curing today's pain so the patient won't... uh... join the Heavenly Host.

  Dr. Newell Paige : Right.

  Dean Harcourt : Narurally as a physician you believe that...

  Dr. Newell Paige : [Interrupting]  How did you know I'm a physician?

  Dean Harcourt : You just told me.

  Dr. Newell Paige : [laughs to himself]  Right.

  Dean Harcourt : Tou know, you and I are in the same sort of business. If I concern myself more with eternity, it's because my job is with the soul, rather than with the body.

  Dr. Newell Paige : Preacher?

  Dean Harcourt : I much prefer to be known as a teacher.

• Dean Harcourt : I'm alive simply because I have a job to do. You take away my job, you take away my life.

  Dr. Newell Paige : Yes, a man must have something to live for, musn't he?

  Dean Harcourt : Or something to die for.

  Dr. Newell Paige : [Smiles]  I can't think of something to die for. However, maybe something will turn up.