Smallville

Smallville Season 1 Quotes

Season 1 Episode 21: "Tempest"

Lionel: You're not my enemy. You're my son.
Lex: I never saw the distinction.
 • Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

Lionel: You may have thought you found a home, Lex, but Smallville was just a training ground. Your training is over. You're coming home, son!
 • Rating: Unrated

Lex: Any relationship founded on lies is destined to fail. It's a good thing we don't have that problem.
Clark: Lucky us.
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Lionel: You're throwing away your future, Lex.
Lex: Or forging a new destiny free of you.
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Clark: Lex cares about the town - he says he has big plans!
Jonathan: The road to Hell is paved with good intentions!
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Clark: Have I told you how beautiful you look tonight?
Chloe: Yeah. But frequent reminders are always appreciated.
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Lionel: I will bury you and everyone in Smallville who takes your side.
 • Rating: Unrated

Chloe: Clark Kent, man of mystery. Just when I think I have you figured out, you surprise me.
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Lionel: Smallville isn't in your future, it's just a brief chapter in your biography.
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Lionel: If you're going to take me on, son, you're going to have to bring your game up to a whole different level.
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Lex: The two theories seem to be I either ran the plant into the ground through incompetence or did it deliberately so that I can go back to Metropolis.
Clark: Your dad already offered you a job in Metropolis - just tell people the truth.
Lex: Then they get stuck with the incompetence rap. Being reviled is the lesser evil.
 • Rating: Unrated

Lana: One day he's worried about his English paper, and the next he's putting on a uniform and saving the world.
 • Rating: Unrated

Lex: I believe the term is cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!
 • Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

Lex: Take the buyout now and you can keep your dignity. That's more than you left me.
 • Rating: Unrated

Clark: Chloe!
Chloe: (sighs and rushes through her speech) Okay, I just... I have this horrible nightmare that you are going to rush to the bus station after Whitney leaves and profess your undying love for Lana, and I'm going to be waiting at the gym all alone, and if you do that to me Clark, I will never speak to you again, Okay? I said it.
 • Rating: Unrated

Lex: I don't know. Just got a bad feeling. Kind of like when you can smell the air change before a storm.
Clark: Storms are a way of life around here, Lex. The trick is not to get caught out in the open.
 • Rating: Unrated

Season 1 Episode 20: "Obscura"

Lex: (to reporter Nixon) Since I haven't called you, and there wasn't any three-head sheep born in Smallville, what brings the Inquisitor to town?
 • Rating: Unrated

Jonathan: When did you get so wise?
Clark: Ask my dad.
Jonathan: I'll sleep on it.
 • Rating: Unrated

Pete: You ought to try getting off of your butt, Clark. It's the wave of the future.
 • Rating: Unrated

Chloe: Clark Kent leaps tall theories in a single bound!
 • Rating: Unrated

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