James Mason credited as playing...
Sir Oliver S. Lindenbrook
- Carla Goetabaug: Poor Sir Oliver, stuck with a woman. If only you could see your face.
- Sir Oliver Lindenbrook: That's my consolation, madam, I don't have to look at it. You do.
- Carla Goetabaug: Sir Oliver, you're not going to listen to a murderer?
- Sir Oliver Lindenbrook: Never interrupt a murderer, madam.
- Count Saknussemm: I resent that bourgeois classification. I'll spare your lives. You have my word of honor.
- Sir Oliver Lindenbrook: Give me your hand on that.
- [Sir Oliver throws salt into Count Saknussemm's eyes]
- Sir Oliver Lindenbrook: A bourgeois trick. So sorry.
- Carla Goetabaug: Someone is walking up there. I heard footsteps, human footsteps.
- Sir Oliver Lindenbrook: Madam, since the beginning of time, all women have heard footsteps "up there."
- Alec McKuen: [after discovering Professor Göteborg dead in his hotel room] Why didn't they tell us at the desk?
- Sir Oliver Lindenbrook: Hotels rarely advertise the fact that there are corpses lying around.
- Sir Oliver Lindenbrook: We'll observe one minute of silence in memory of a great scientist, even if he was a blasted thief.
- Alec McKuen: I wonder if Madam Goetabaug will change her mind at the last moment.
- Sir Oliver Lindenbrook: You make my mouth water.
- Alec McKuen: Hans is tying the rope on her.
- Sir Oliver Lindenbrook: I'm a fool. I should have told him to tie her to one of the mules and send her back where she belongs.
- Alec McKuen: In what language would you have told him that, Sir Oliver?
- Sir Oliver Lindenbrook: All right, she may be of some use in that respect. Then there's always the blessed chance the rope may break.
- Carla Goetabaug: Whom did you intend to take along besides this young man?
- Sir Oliver Lindenbrook: The big Icelander.
- Carla Goetabaug: Then I'll be very useful. He doesn't understand a word of English.
- Sir Oliver Lindenbrook: Where are you eating tonight?
- Alec McKuen: U-uh... this being Tuesday, I-I'm not eating.
- Sir Oliver Lindenbrook: Oh?
- Alec McKuen: I-I find it very healthy to... to eat only every other night.
- Sir Oliver Lindenbrook: Your entire presence is a constant criticism of me. I'm tired of it, I've had enough!
- Carla Goetabaug: You've had enough! Well, let me tell you, you... you dried up walnut of a man, if anyone's had enough, it's me!
- Sir Oliver Lindenbrook: It's *I*.
- Carla Goetabaug: You know, it's one thing to spend ones days and nights with a man under the earth, another under one roof in Scotland.
- Sir Oliver Lindenbrook: Well, ehh... what do you propose?
- Carla Goetabaug: Oh, that's not a word I'd bandy about, Professor.
- Sir Oliver Lindenbrook: What did I say? Which word?
- Carla Goetabaug: I THOUGHT it would catch in your throat.
- Sir Oliver Lindenbrook: To burden myself with a female is sheer stupidity.
- Carla Goetabaug: I resent that word. I may have been a disturbance to men-never a burden!
- Sir Oliver Lindenbrook: Young man with the gold tooth, I'll give you more gold if you guide us to Reykjavik.
- Hans Belker: [in Icelandic] Ahh, yes, yes, yes, Reykjavik.
- Sir Oliver Lindenbrook: You... take us... to Reykjavik.
- Laird of Glendarick: Sir Oliver, in the name of the whole student body, in gratitude for the knowledge you have imparted to us...
- Sir Oliver Lindenbrook: That's enough obituary prose. An inkwell I presume. A very handsome thing. Hellish to dust.
- Count Saknussemm: To save what we can, I insist that we leave these regions at once.
- Sir Oliver Lindenbrook: You insist? As a matter of fact, he's bloody well right. Let's be off.
- Sir Oliver Lindenbrook: A dimetrodon!
- Count Saknussemm: If I had my gun, we'd have fresh meat for dinner.
- Sir Oliver Lindenbrook: That's what he's saying. He's a flesh eater.
- Sir Oliver Lindenbrook: You won't find anything edible in there.
- Alec McKuen: Why not? The Chinese eat eggs over 400 years old.
- Sir Oliver Lindenbrook: A field of force that snatches gold away! This is it, this is it! The junction of magnetic forces from the North Pole to the South Pole - the center of the earth!