Capt. William Kidd: Governor, would you be good enough to tell them what we're here for?
Newgate Prison Governor Landers: Give heed you-you vermin. Here's news to your advantage...
First prisoner: Is the hangman dead, then?
Second prisoner: Out with it, Jock Nastyface! Is it that your mother's turned into an honest woman?
Newgate Prison Governor Landers: Silence you mutinous dogs! If another man speaks. I'll trice him up by the thumbs and flog him raw!
Capt. William Kidd: Tsk-tsk-tsk. Is that the way to win the love of these unfortunate gentleman?


--Charles Laughton (as Capt. William Kidd) in Captain Kidd

Capt. William Kidd: I hate fat men!
Capt. Bonney: But you're a fat man.
Capt. William Kidd: I hate myself too!


--Charles Laughton (as Capt. William Kidd) in Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd

Capt. William Kidd: Look you then! I want men with iron in their blood and steel in their sinews. And the first up here is the first enlisted!


--Charles Laughton (as Capt. William Kidd) in Captain Kidd

Capt. William Kidd: Now then, me bullies! Would you rather do the gallows dance, and hang in chains 'til the crows pluck your eyes from your rotten skulls? Or would you feel the roll of a stout ship beneath your feet again?


--Charles Laughton (as Capt. William Kidd) in Captain Kidd

Capt. William Kidd: There's none would be so loyal, nor fight so desperate, as cutthroats under sentence of death... if they knew that at the end of the voyage a royal pardon would be in their pockets.
King William III: I shall hold you responsible for their good conduct.
Capt. William Kidd: Between their conduct and mine, your majesty, there will be little to choose.


--Charles Laughton (as Capt. William Kidd) in Captain Kidd

Capt. William Kidd: Your neck will be stretched as long as your memory, one of these days.


--Charles Laughton (as Capt. William Kidd) in Captain Kidd

Charles Staggers: There ain't no answer. You're after justice and logic. There ain't no justice, and there ain't no logic. The world ain't made that way. Everything's luck, see. And good temper. And if you can take a joke. The whole of life's a joke.


--Charles Laughton (as Charles Staggers) in Sidewalks of London

Dr. Moreau: Did you see that, Montgomery? She was tender like a woman. Oh, how that little scene spurs the scientific imagination onward.


--Charles Laughton (as Dr. Moreau) in Island of Lost Souls

Dr. Moreau: Mr. Parker, do you know what it means to feel like God?


--Charles Laughton (as Dr. Moreau) in Island of Lost Souls

Dr. Moreau: She's never seen anything like him.
Mr. Montgomery: No?
Dr. Moreau: You and I don't count. The only reactions we get from her are fear and terror.
Mr. Montgomery: That's understandable.
Dr. Moreau: But how will she respond to Parker where there's no cause for fear? Will she be attracted? Is she capable of being attracted? Has she a woman's emotional impulses? I could scarcely hope for a chance like this short of London.


--Charles Laughton (as Dr. Moreau) in Island of Lost Souls