Professor George Edward Challenger Quotes in The Lost World (1960)

Professor George Edward Challenger: [to the people at the Zoological Institute] Live dinosaurs!

Professor George Edward Challenger: [They have arrived on the plateu] A great moment in history.

Professor George Edward Challenger: Young idiot! Have you lost your wits. Who let that girl out?

David Holmes: She wasn't trying to escape, sir.

Professor George Edward Challenger: She... She told you so, I suppose. In the language of love, undoubtedly.

David Holmes: [about their cannibals captors] They undoubtedly intend to kill us.

Professor George Edward Challenger: Kill us. Why not. An invasion of privacy gives a man the right to kill. *We* are the invaders.

[last lines]

Professor George Edward Challenger: [watching the destruction from a distance] My Lost World. Lost forever.

Lord John Roxton: Now we'll never prove anything in London.

Professor George Edward Challenger: Oh, yes, we will. I thought this might help.

[reveals a dinosaur egg]

Lord John Roxton: One of the dinosaur eggs. Hardly worth the lives of all those men. But then nor were these.

[reveals a handful of diamonds]

Jennifer Holmes: Johnny! How'd you manage those?

Lord John Roxton: No fire monster's big enough to deprive you of a wedding gift.

Manuel Gomez: Well, "Mrs." is still the best title for a girl.

David Holmes: But, uh, don't you want any of them?

Lord John Roxton: Well, I, uh, I kept a few for the rest of us.

Jennifer Holmes: [the egg is dropped and cracks open] A baby dinosaur!

Professor George Edward Challenger: Ha! Tyrannosaurus rex!

Lord John Roxton: Ha! But will it live, Professor? Will it be all right?

Professor George Edward Challenger: It'll live long enough to grow as big as a house and terrify all London.

David Holmes: Then what'll we do?

Professor George Edward Challenger: Well, we'll move out of London as fast as possible!

[all chuckling]