Pete: Why are you grinning? We lost.
Clark: I know. Pretty cool, huh?

Jonathan: How are you holding up?
Clark: Considering my chores used to take me five minutes and now they take two hours, I'm alright.

Smallville is your test and now you are failing.

Lionel

Victoria: We could've been great together.
Lex: I plan on being great all by myself.

Rickman: I'm just like you, Lex. Government employee sets my emission levels and I abide. You have an objection?
Lex: Let's call it an interest. Smallville's my home now.

Failure isn't something I'm used to doing.

Lex

I knew you always kept secrets from me, but I never knew they were this good.

Lex

Trust me, Clark. Our friendship is going to be the stuff of legends.

Lex

Clark: Everyone needs a friend.
Kyle: No they don't. Because they'll always betray you in the end.

Chloe: Yeah. Don't you think it's a little odd that he lives all alone way out here in the woods?
Clark: Thoreau did.
Chloe: Yeah, Clark. So did the Unabomber.

I'm not out here doing this butt-bashing thing for fun. These woods are like the Bermuda Triangle of Smallville.

Chloe

That, my friend, is the key to leadership. Not only knowing you're right, but convincing everyone else. If you can do that, the world's your oyster.

Lex

Smallville Season 1 Quotes

Pete: Statistical fact: If Clark moved any slower he'd be extinct.

Jonathan: I know this has gotta be really hard for you. But you gotta just hang in there like we promised.
Clark: I'm sick of "hanging in there." All I want to do is go through high school without being a total loser.