The Penalty (1920 film)

"Fate chained me to evil, for that I must pay the Penalty. - That is a great puzzle. Perhaps I am going to see it solved."

"[to Barbara] Some excellent judges think that I resemble Satan."

"Do I look like Satan? Before I am through with her and her father, they'll think I'm the devil himself."

"Laughter burns a cripple like acid."

"Once before a woman surfeited me with her caresses. She's dead!"

"You have worked in the dark long enough - this is the plan I have been developing for two years. At twelve noon on that day I shall loot the City of San Francisco. Your ten thousand foreign malcontents will filter into the city in small detachments. The signal will be an explosion. By fire and riots I shall draw the police and military into the suburbs. The heart of the city will be left defenseless - ours to loot at will. And then we shall vanish with our treasure."

"Everything comes to him who waits."

"I am the unhappiest beast in the world."

"Rose, my dear! Under the piano, my darling - we'll have some music. I have a feeling I shall waft you into Heaven."

"I've waked from a terrible dream! I was a devil - - I did things that I shudder to think of!"

"And I shall walk as men walk. I shall be the master of a city! And for my mangled years the city shall pay me - - - - with the pleasures of a Nero and the powers of a Caesar!"

"I could get him for theft, arson, murder - - but his criminal machine would still grind on. Through the Master I must reach his slaves - the underground powers of the Reds. He's gathered up his dance hall girls and he's put them to work in his house - making hats - thousands of hats. I must know why!"

"In time the man would mangle the soul of the daughter, even as the father had mangled the body of the man."

"Blizzard, master of San Francisco's underworld, legless, deformed—the weirdest character ever presented on the screen—you'll never forget him."

"Charles Clary — Dr. Ferris"

"Doris Pawn — Barbary Nell"

"James Pier Mason — Frisco Pete"

"Lon Chaney — Blizzard"

"Milton Ross — Lichtenstein"

"Ethel Grey Terry — Rose"

"Kenneth Harlan — Dr. Wilmot Allen"

"Claire Adams — Barbara Ferris"