Quotes from the Movie Lost Horizon

It's time we were told what it's all about. We want to know why we were kidnapped, why we're being kept here, but most important of all, do we get the porters and when? Until we get this information, my dear Mr. Chang, I am very much afraid we cannot permit you to leave this room....

Robert Conway

It's astonishing and incredible, but...you're the man...You're still alive, Father Perrault!

Robert Conway

When we were on that plane, I was fascinated by the way its shadow followed it. That silly shadow, racing along over mountains and valleys, covering ten times the distance of the plane, and yet always there to greet us with outstretched arms when we landed. And I've been thinking that somehow, you're that plane, and I'm that silly shadow. That all my life, I've been rushing up and down hills, leaping rivers, crashing over obstacles, never dreaming that one day that beautiful thing in flight would land on this earth and into my arms.

Robert Conway

Something grand and beautiful, George. Something I've been searching for all my life. The answer to the confusion and bewilderment of a lifetime. I've found it, George, and I can't leave it. You mustn't either.

Robert Conway

She's a fragile thing that can only live where fragile things are loved. Take her out of this valley and she'll fade away like an echo.

Robert Conway

I saw a man whose life was empty...Oh I know, it was full of this and full of that. But you were accomplishing nothing. You were going nowhere, and you knew it. As a matter of fact, all I saw was a little boy whistling in the dark.

Sondra Bizet

You're absolutely right. And I had to come all the way to a pigeon house in Shangri-La to find the only other person in the world who knew it. May I congratulate you?

Sondra Bizet

You may not know it, but you're all prisoners here who were literally kidnapped and brought here and nobody knows why. Well, I'm not content to be a prisoner. I'm going to find out when we're going to get out of this place. I'll make that Chinese talk if it's the last thing I do.

George Conway

What else can I think after a tale like that?...I think you've been hypnotized by a lot of loose-brained fanatics.

George Conway

To put it simply, I should say that our general belief was in moderation. We preach the virtue of avoiding excesses of every kind, even including excess of virtue itself...We find in the valley it makes for greater happiness among the natives. We rule with moderate strictness and in return we are satisfied with moderate obedience. As a result, our people are moderately honest, moderately chaste, and somewhat more than moderately happy.

Chang

There can be no crime where there is a sufficiency of everything.

Chang

It would not be considered good manners to take a woman that another man wanted.

Chang

A little courtesy all around helps to smooth out the most complicated problems.

Chang

We do not buy or sell or seek personal fortunes because, well, there is no uncertain future here for which to accumulate it.

Chang

In fact, Shangri-La is Father Perrault.

Chang