Lionel Luthor

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Lionel Luthor Quotes

	Season 7 / Episode 15: - Veritas Lionel Luthor: If we don't open that envelope, Dr. Swann's conclusions could be mythical as the gods of Mount Olympus. Robert Queen: Virgil's going to be here in any minute. I suggest you don't refer to his life's work as mythology. Edward Teague: Veritas...it's the greatest secret the world will ever know. Robert Queen: We formed this group to use our wealth and power to protect that secret. Not expose it. Lionel Luthor: Is that Robert Queen talking, or is that Virgil Swann? You're sounding more like him every day.
	Season 7 / Episode 15: - Veritas Lionel Luthor: No, I've repented! Chloe Sullivan: That's right, you're an intensely spiritual man. You amassed all the power a human could until you found out about Clark. Befriending him is the closest thing you'll ever get to seeing God.
	Season 7 / Episode 14: - Traveler Lex Luthor: What secret was so important that you and your friends built a group around it? Lionel Luthor: Oh, think about it, Lex. Skull & Bones, Scroll & Key, the Delphic. The rich have secret societies. The others have poker nights.
	Season 7 / Episode 10: - Persona Lex Luthor: You're telling me you wouldn't want to see Julian again? To look into the eyes of the son you've lost? Lionel Luthor: It's you I've lost. It's you I've lost.
	Season 7 / Episode 8: - Blue Zor-El: You're just as stubborn as my brother. Soon you could be just as dead. If you value your life, tell Kal-El to trust his uncle. You'll be better off in the end. Lionel Luthor: Kal-El is following his own destiny. I will do nothing to stop his course.
	Season 7 / Episode 6: - Lara Lionel Luthor: Can't I take an interest on my son's well-being? Lex Luthor: Oh, which son is that? You spend as much time protecting Clark as you do pushing me away. Exactly whose father are you? Lionel Luthor: I wish I could say yours and be proud. Your treatment of Lana... Lex Luthor: Come on, Dad. I learned from watching you with Mom. I was just...being a Luthor.
	Season 6 / Episode 22: - Phantom Lex Luthor: Ever since the day I've put on this wedding ring, you seem to have the uncanny knack for being one step ahead of me. Lionel Luthor: I don't have time for this. I have things to do. Lex Luthor: Like have a private screening of that DVD? You know the documentary - the one that Lana stole from me and gave to you. Lionel Luthor: Oh, dear. I'd hoped married life have lessoned some of your paranoia.
	Season 6 / Episode 22: - Phantom Lionel Luthor: Clark, if Lana's spoken to you, I know what you must be thinking, but you've got to listen to me. Clark Kent: I've listened to you for too long! Lionel Luthor: Lex is tracking a wraith from the Phantom Zone. I had to force Lana to marry him. It was the only way she could get close to him to get the information for me I need to you help. Clark Kent: No. I never asked for you help. And I never will. Lionel Luthor: You're not a murder. You're Kal-El. Clark Kent: Don't call me by that name!
	Season 6 / Episode 22: - Phantom Lionel Luthor: Clark. Son, what is it? Clark Kent: That's not me. It's the phantom. Bizarro: How do you like my new look? Bizarro: Thanks. That's just what I needed. Clark Kent: What the hell are you? Bizarro: I'm you, only a little more bizarre.
	Season 6 / Episode 22: - Phantom Lex Luthor: As hard as it is for you to believe, Lana actually loves me. Lionel Luthor: Oh, you know so little about women, Lex. I suppose losing your mother at such an early age didn't help matters. Lana does not love you. The only reason she agreed to marry you was that I gave her a gentle, yet very firm, nudge. Lex Luthor: Using my wife against me... That's deplorable even for you. Whatever debts you think I still owe, we are even. I want you out of my life. Lionel Luthor: I don't think you're gonna get rid of me that easily.
	Season 6 / Episode 22: - Phantom Clark Kent: I don't understand. None of this makes any sense. Lionel Luthor: It was when Lex was possessed with Zod. I became with possessed with all your father's knowledge. I found myself writing... in Kryptonian, the symbol for power. John Jones: It was a beacon. The same beacon Jor-El used when he needed me. Clark Kent: You knew my father? John Jones: I worked for Jor-El, bringing criminals to justice. When Krypton was on the verge of annihilation, he asked me to keep an eye out for you. Clark Kent: Where have you been all these years? John Jones: Watching from a distance, from my residence on Mars. Lionel Luthor: Your father wanted you to pass the test without any help. He wasn't to interfere unless it was absolutely necessary. John Jones: When you unleashed those phantoms, your life was at stake. I didn't have a choice. I had to help you out. Lionel Luthor: Like what happened at the docks in Seattle. Clark Kent: When that phantom infected my mind? Lionel Luthor: That's right. John Jones: Unfortunately, I've lost a step since then. Clark Kent: What happened? John Jones: Nothing. Clark Kent: That doesn't look like nothing. John Jones: I had a run-in with the last phantom. I have to leave Earth's atmosphere to heal, but first I must complete the job I started.
	Season 6 / Episode 22: - Phantom Clark Kent: I'll go after the phantom. I have the crystal that Raya gave me. John Jones: I doubt that crystal will work. Lionel Luthor: It's not an ordinary phantom, Clark. It's the product of a Kryptonian lab experiment. It's been destroying one human being after the other, desperately searching for the only host that will ensure its survival: a Kryptonian body.
	Season 6 / Episode 21: - Prototype Clark Kent: We have to talk. Lionel Luthor: Clark! You should try picking up the phone occasionally, it might be quicker... Or maybe not... Clark Kent: What do you know about Lana? Lionel Luthor: Letting go... never was one of your strong point, was it? Clark Kent: Telling the truth was never one of yours.
	Season 6 / Episode 19: - Nemesis Lana Lang: I wonder how Martha Kent would handle hearing that you used her son as a bargaining chip? Tell me what you know. Lionel Luthor: Well, I see you've embraced wholeheartedly what it means to be a Luthor.
	Season 6 / Episode 16: - Promise Lionel Luthor: Do you remember, when you were just a little boy, I'd bring you up here to the office? Lex Luthor: I used to pretend it was all mine to control, like I could just reach down and move all the cars, as if they were toys... pull all the strings and make people do what I wanted.
	Season 6 / Episode 16: - Promise Lionel Luthor: You know Clark's secret, don't you? I've been watching you since you've started seeing my son, and you've been getting closer and closer to finding out the shocking truth about Clark Kent. What a surprise it must have been to realize that Clark has kept up the deception for so long, right under your nose. Lana Lang: He was trying to protect me. And he's not going to let you threaten me now. Lionel Luthor: You think Clark's invincible. Not so. Like every hero, he has an Achilles' heel, a weakness. I know what it is. And I know that it could kill him. Lana Lang: No. You could never hurt him. Lionel Luthor: Would you bet Clark's life on that? I give you my word, Miss Lang, if you don't honor the promise that you made to my son or I find out that you have told anyone about this conversation, I will kill Clark Kent.
	Season 6 / Episode 5: - Reunion Lionel Luthor: I know Alden wasn't your close friend Lex... Lex Luthor: [cutting in] But what I should muster up some tears anyway? Thanks but I'll save them for someone who deserves them!
	Season 5 / Episode 22: - Vessel Lionel Luthor: You, know, Clark, in certain cultures when a father presents his son with a gift of a knife, it represents a... rite of passage.
	Season 5 / Episode 22: - Vessel Lex Luthor: You tried to warn me about Fine, but I didn't listen. Lionel Luthor: You never have. Not matter what I've given you, the things you've always wanted were beyond your grasp. This time you've overreached yourself. Lex Luthor: Did you come out here to lecture me or to help me? Lionel Luthor: It's too late to do either, isn't it? You made a deal with the devil. He always comes to collect.
	Season 5 / Episode 22: - Vessel Lionel Luthor: Clark... the real test of a hero is knowing when the greater good will be served by an evil act. To save the Earth, the cost of one life is the price that must be paid. Clark Kent: Even if that life is your son? Lex is the vessel of Zod.
	Season 5 / Episode 22: - Vessel Lex Luthor: Dad, are you okay? Lionel Luthor: What have they... done to you... Lex? What have they turned you into?
	Season 5 / Episode 21: - Oracle Chloe Sullivan: So Hell freezes over and no one even bothers to tell me? Clark Kent: Chloe, listen, Mr. Luthor has been writing these. It's some sort of warning, but I can't decipher it. Chloe Sullivan: Well, unfortunately, my Kryptonian's a little rusty. What about - Lionel Luthor: I don't know what any of this means, Miss Sullivan. I am simply the Oracle. I believe the answers could be found with a visit to your Fortress. Clark Kent: The last time someone talked me into taking him to the Fortress, was a trick. To release General Zod. Chloe Sullivan: Yeah, I have plans this weekend, so if we could protect Smallville from the wrath of Krypton's deadliest villain, that would be great.
	Season 5 / Episode 21: - Oracle Lionel Luthor: You're involved with Milton Fine. I know that he's been smuggling some of the deadliest viruses in the world into this country with your help. Lex Luthor: Well, don't worry, Dad. I'm not gonna put them in any Halloween candy.
	Season 5 / Episode 19: - Mercy Lionel Luthor: It was you, Lex. I know it. Lex Luthor: What? Lionel Luthor: Disabling my limo in the path of an oncoming train. You know that kind of melodrama went out of style with silent movies.
	Season 5 / Episode 15: - Cyborg Lionel Luthor: Your secret's safe with me... Kal-El.
	Season 5 / Episode 9: - Lexmas Lex: We're talking about Lana! I know we've had our differences, but my wife, she's the mother of your grandchildren. Lionel Luthor: How can I have grandchildren? I don't have a son.
	Season 5 / Episode 8: - Solitude Lionel Luthor: How does it go? You can put a tuxedo on the fiddler but he's still going to play the same old tune. Chloe Sullivan: That's good. You should jot that down and add it to your page-a-day calendar.
	Season 5 / Episode 3: - Hidden Lionel Luthor: [a brilliant flash of light wakes Clark and he rises from a pedestal of ice in the Fortress of Solitude and looks around, confused as to how and why he is there, until he looks up and sees Lionel standing above him in the distance] Hello Kal-El. Clark Kent: [Confused and amazed] Jor-El? Lionel Luthor: [Grasping the lapels of his overcoat] And I'm hoping the time has come when you will call me father. Clark Kent: [Perplexed]... I was... I was just in the hospital. How did you get me here? Lionel Luthor: The portal in the cave. When this body was activated it became an oracle of Kryptonian knowledge, a vessel for me to inhabit if ever you should need me. That time was now. Clark Kent: Am I dead? Lionel Luthor: Your mortal journey is over, yes, but your eminent destiny is far too important to be sacrificed. You will return with all of your natural gifts. [Steps forward] Unfortunately, this rectification does not come without a price. [Clark looks concerned] The life of someone close to you will be exchanged for yours. Clark Kent: [In shock] No. No I'd never ask for that. Lionel Luthor: You already did when you chose to relinquish your powers and disobey me. It was your choice. Clark Kent: [Angrily] Then just don't send me back! Lionel Luthor: It's too late. [Lionel steps forward to Clark to speak to him face to face] For everything in nature, there is a balance. [Stated with sorrow] The life force that has been returned to you will soon be taken from... from someone you love. [Grabs Clark's arms] You're about to face your darkest hour my son but, remember the lessons we learn from pain are the ones that make us the strongest. [He hugs Clark and a brilliant light emanates from Lionel's hand and he takes a step back] Always know that I love you. [a brilliant flash of light returns Clark to Smallville]
	Season 5 / Episode 1: - Arrival Lana Lang: [Approaching Lionel carving a Kryptonian symbol into the hardwood floor with a corkscrew] Mr. Luthor? [Nearing closer] Are you okay? Lionel Luthor: [Lionel grabs Lana by the arm and she screams] The disciples of Zod... [Looks up to Lana revealing the cataracts in his blank eyes]... they must be stopped! Lana Lang: Your talking about the people from the ship. Lionel Luthor: Their home... [He gets up and walks to Lex's safe full of Kryptonite laced artifacts]... is there only poison. Their home... is there only poison.
	Season 3 / Episode 19: - Memoria Lionel Luthor: Lex... things would have been so different between us. Lex Luthor: Yes, Dad. You might have actually loved me.

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