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Lars Hanson Little House on the Prairie (1974)

Lars Hanson

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Karl SwensonKarl Swenson
Of Swedish descent, burly, light-haired character actor Karl Swenson was born in Brooklyn and started ...

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Lars Hanson Quotes

05x06 - There's No Place Like Home (2) Season 5 / Episode 6: - There's No Place Like Home (2)

Lars Hanson: I'm going to get dressed, if you'll help. I'm going to go to church.
Jonathan Garvey: No, Reverend Alden will stop by and see you after the services...
Lars Hanson: No. You help me or I manage for myself.
Jonathan Garvey: Please, Mr. Hanson...
Lars Hanson: Don't argue. I am not only your elder, I am your boss!
03x09 - The Bully Boys Season 3 / Episode 9: - The Bully Boys

Lars Hanson: If there is one thing I cannot stand, it is a liar and a thief!
Isaiah Edwards: Well I can't deny telling a few stories now and then, but I ain't never taken nothing.
Lars Hanson: No, no, it has nothing to do with you. It is the Galendars, they are both liars and thieves.
Isaiah Edwards: I don't rightly know what you're talking about.
Lars Hanson: You know that load of lumber that Charles delivered? You know what they did? They sold it to Henderson three dollars cheaper! And I lose both the lumber and the order.
Isaiah Edwards: No matter about that, they still gotta pay you for it.
Lars Hanson: Oh yeah, they pay, they lie, that's what they do! And they are not even ashamed.
Isaiah Edwards: Well you'll have to have a talk with'em...
Lars Hanson: No, Nels Oleson already tried. You know what they did? They took almost $20 of his merchandise.
Isaiah Edwards: Well you don't just take something without paying for it.
Lars Hanson: They say they pay, that way it is credit. You can't put a man in jail for his bills.
03x09 - The Bully Boys Season 3 / Episode 9: - The Bully Boys

Isaiah Edwards: Someone oughta take a switch to'em, and a big'un. Back in Duvall County, we had some fellas who wouldn't do nothin' but take them down to the creek and...
Lars Hanson: No, no, I've seen this sort of thing before. They get tired and then they move on. That is better, that way nobody gets hurt.
Isaiah Edwards: But... [Hanson walks away] 'Least you coulda done was let me finish my story. It was a pip.
02x14 - The Pride Of Walnut Grove Season 2 / Episode 14: - The Pride Of Walnut Grove

Lars Hanson: We called a special meeting of the school board tonight.
Charles Ingalls: No one told me.
Lars Hanson: Yeah, well we figured it was better that way. You can be pretty stubborn at times, Charles.
02x14 - The Pride Of Walnut Grove Season 2 / Episode 14: - The Pride Of Walnut Grove

Lars Hanson: We have a lot of pride here in Walnut Grove. And a thing like this doesn't happen very often. And the school board voted unanimously to give the money needed for the trip.
Charles Ingalls: Well, that's very kind of you, but I'm sorry...
Eva Beadle: It's not a matter of kindness, Mr. Ingalls. Believe me, there are a lot of children who go to the finals sponsored by their home towns.
Lars Hanson: How often do we get the chance to get the name Walnut Grove in the newspapers all over the state?
Eva Beadle: It's for the pride of Walnut Grove.
02x04 - In The Big Inning Season 2 / Episode 4: - In The Big Inning

Isaiah Edwards: There goes a day's wages.
Lars Hanson: Two days' wages.
Isaiah Edwards: What do you mean two days' wages?
Lars Hanson: You told me to put you down for two!
Isaiah Edwards: Did I say that?
Lars Hanson: Yes.
Isaiah Edwards: Now what are you doing listenin' to me?
Lars Hanson: I won't anymore.
01x21 - Money Crop Season 1 / Episode 21: - Money Crop

Lars Hanson: Listen, when you get scared, you strike out against your best friend. You call him a thief. You picked on a pregnant woman. And you make her sick so she almost loses her ba-by! Well, tell me what kind of a man does that? No man. Cowards. Cowards without a backbone! You don't deserve good luck!
01x19 - Circus Man Season 1 / Episode 19: - Circus Man

Dr. Hiram Baker: Hansen, when are you going to come in and let me take care of that headache?
Lars Hanson: I took the pills and they don't work!
Dr. Hiram Baker: [to Charles] I want to give him an examination. A thorough examinagion.
Lars Hanson: Inside my head?
Dr. Hiram Baker: A pain's not a disease, it's a symptom. Your body's telling me there's something wrong somewhere. I want to find it!
Lars Hanson: A headache is a headache. Even you can cure it or you can't cure it.
01x17 - Doctor's Lady Season 1 / Episode 17: - Doctor's Lady

Lars Hanson: How is it that a beautiful girl like that puts her arms around you the first time she sees you?
Dr. Hiram Baker: Irresistible impulse. Back East, I used to have to fight the women off.
Lars Hanson: So... tell me, is this a meeting of the liar's club or are we going to play pinakle?
Dr. Hiram Baker: I play pinnacle. I don't know what it is you play.
01x16 - Family Quarrel Season 1 / Episode 16: - Family Quarrel

Dr. Hiram Baker: A man doesn't worry about loosing something that nobody else wants.
Lars Hanson: Why should he worry?
Dr. Hiram Baker: Why indeed? But if a man thinks that another man is about to run off with something that has always belonged to him absolutely, then that man is going to rise up to declare his ownership in no uncertain terms !
Lars Hanson: Right. But uh... who is gonna run off with Mrs. Olsen?
Dr. Hiram Baker: You.
Lars Hanson: Who?
Dr. Hiram Baker: You.
01x11 - The Voice of Tinker Jones Season 1 / Episode 11: - The Voice of Tinker Jones

Hans Dorfeler: [Discussing the new Church bell] Mr.Ingalls were a poor community, if we accept the gift of the bell that way it won't cost us anything.
Lars Hanson: so if you want a new church that should also be for free?
Hans Dorfeler: Hanson that's not true
Mr. Kennedy: Not exactly for nothing Hanson, your going to be standing over there waiting to sell the lumber!
Lars Hanson: Mr.Kennedy, if you would keep a cival tongue in your head we might get something accomplished HERE! [He says this with anger]
01x11 - The Voice of Tinker Jones Season 1 / Episode 11: - The Voice of Tinker Jones

Harriet Oleson: Well, my husband and I would like to contribute the bell.
Reverend Robert Alden: That's mighty generous.
Harriet Oleson: We'll contribute the bell... and the plaque.
Lars Hanson: What... plaque?
Harriet Oleson: Dedicating it... in our name! After all, we are paying for it.
01x09 - School Mom Season 1 / Episode 9: - School Mom

Harriet Oleson: Uh... before any decision is made, I would like to have an assurance.
Lars Hanson: Yaw, Mrs. Olsen?
Harriet Oleson: Well, uh... Mrs. Ingalls has two children of her own. And I would like to be assured that if she takes the position, that she won't show favoritism toward her two children other... uh... other children.
Caroline: [after long pause while staring at Mrs. Olsen] Mr. Hansen, I've made up my mind. I'll teach the children.

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