Film Quotes by Hugh Griffith
21 quotes
Year: 1966
Director:
William Wyler
Director:
William Wyler
Nicole Bonnet:
I keep telling you, Papa, when you sell a fake masterpiece, that is a crime!
Charles Bonnet: But I don't sell them to poor people, only to millionaires.
Charles Bonnet: But I don't sell them to poor people, only to millionaires.
--
Hugh Griffith
(as Charles Bonnet)
in
How to Steal a Million
(1966)
Year: 1966
Director:
William Wyler
Director:
William Wyler
--
Hugh Griffith
(as Charles Bonnet)
in
How to Steal a Million
(1966)
Year: 1966
Director:
William Wyler
Director:
William Wyler
Insurance Clerk:
By the way sir, would you like to be present at the technical examination?
Nicole Bonnet, Charles Bonnet: Tech-technical examination?
Nicole Bonnet, Charles Bonnet: Tech-technical examination?
--
Hugh Griffith
(as Charles Bonnet)
in
How to Steal a Million
(1966)
Year: 1962
Director:
George Seaton
Director:
George Seaton
Eric Erickson:
How does a person get to be so cold-blooded?
Collins: Watching German planes bomb London helps *enormously*!
Collins: Watching German planes bomb London helps *enormously*!
--
Hugh Griffith
in
The Counterfeit Traitor
(1962)
Year: 1966
Director:
William Wyler
Director:
William Wyler
Charles Bonnet:
[describing Nicole's grandmother who posed for the Venus] Naturally that was before she started eating those enormous lunches.
--
Hugh Griffith
(as Charles Bonnet)
in
How to Steal a Million
(1966)
Year: 1966
Director:
William Wyler
Director:
William Wyler
Charles Bonnet:
Don't you know that in his lifetime Van Gogh only sold one painting? While I, in loving memory of his tragic genius, have already sold two.
--
Hugh Griffith
(as Charles Bonnet)
in
How to Steal a Million
(1966)
Year: 1966
Director:
William Wyler
Director:
William Wyler
Charles Bonnet:
My dirt!
--
Hugh Griffith
(as Charles Bonnet)
in
How to Steal a Million
(1966)
Year: 1949
Director:
Charles Frend
Director:
Charles Frend
Huw:
This nose can smell the primrose in the spring or mutton chops cooking or the well-brushed hair of children in the park. It is filled with the savors of innocence... and memory. The motion of the waterfall and the little girl under the haystack and cowslips in the railway cuttings. I can smell out the corruption in a den of hypocrites, scoundrels, and dead souls.
[Stroking his harp]
Huw: Anyhow, it is mostly indigestion to what you're talking about.
[Stroking his harp]
Huw: Anyhow, it is mostly indigestion to what you're talking about.
--
Hugh Griffith
(as Huw Price)
in
A Run for Your Money
(1949)
Year: 1959
Director:
William Wyler
Director:
William Wyler
Sheik Ilderim:
Balthasar is a good man. But until all men are like him, we must keep our swords bright!
Judah Ben-Hur: And our intentions true! So I must leave you.
Sheik Ilderim: One last thought: There is no law in the arena; many are killed... I hope to see you again, Judah Ben-Hur.
Judah Ben-Hur: And our intentions true! So I must leave you.
Sheik Ilderim: One last thought: There is no law in the arena; many are killed... I hope to see you again, Judah Ben-Hur.
--
Hugh Griffith
(as Sheik Ilderim)
in
Ben-Hur
(1959)
Year: 1959
Director:
William Wyler
Director:
William Wyler
Sheik Ilderim:
One God, that I can understand; but one wife? That is not civilized.
[nudges Judah]
Sheik Ilderim: It is not generous!
[nudges Judah]
Sheik Ilderim: It is not generous!
--
Hugh Griffith
(as Sheik Ilderim)
in
Ben-Hur
(1959)