Sheik Ilderim: You think you can treat my horses like animals? Give me those reins! Bonehead!


--Hugh Griffith (as Sheik Ilderim) in Ben-Hur

Squire Allworthy: [Mr. Allworthy, in his sickbed after his carriage accident has brought him to death's door, prepares to tell his will to assorted members of the household. Tom Jones weeps at his bedside] Do not grieve, my dear nephew. Do not grieve.
Tom Jones: Sir, you cannot die!
Squire Allworthy: Death comes to us all, Tom. I've asked you here to tell you my will. Nephew Blifil, I leave you heir to my whole estate, with three exceptions. To you my dear Tom, I have given an estate of 800 pounds a year, together with a thousand pounds in ready money. I am convinced, my boy, that you have much goodness, generosity and honor in your nature. If you will add prudence, and religion, to these, you must be happy. One thousand pounds I leave to you, Mr. Thwackum, and a like sum to you, Mr. Square, which I am convinced exceeds your desires as well as your wants.


--Hugh Griffith (as Squire Western) in Tom Jones

Squire Allworthy: [to Tom, when not expected to recover from a carriage accident] I am convinced, my boy, that you have much goodness, generosity and honor in your nature. If you will add prudence and religion to those, you must be happy.


--Hugh Griffith (as Squire Western) in Tom Jones

Squire Western: [At the cemetery: shrugging indifferently as Bridget Blifil has just been laid to rest] Well, there's another one gone.


--Hugh Griffith (as Squire Western) in Tom Jones

Squire Western: [commenting on Sophie's playing the harpsichord] You play like an angel.


--Hugh Griffith (as Squire Western) in Tom Jones

Squire Western: Madam, I despise your politics as much as I do a fart.


--Hugh Griffith (as Squire Western) in Tom Jones

The Beggar: What's an opera if everyone is dead in it?


--Hugh Griffith (as ) in The Beggar's Opera

The Beggar: You're never Captain MacHeath, sir!
Captain MacHeath: Never Captain MacHeath, sir? At my mother's breast I was Captain MacHeath, sir!
The Beggar: I would rather not think so! You're not at all as I imagined. No... no... no. I've overwritten you. My captain is higher by two or three inches.
Captain MacHeath: Hmmm. Wll, sir, thanks to you I shall be higher this time tomorrow by the height of a hangman's card.
The Beggar: No, Captain, you'd never do. There is more of you in two bars of my opera than there is in your own body.
Captain MacHeath: Well, I'm sorry for it.
The Beggar: [Disappointed] There's no arguing with reality.


--Hugh Griffith (as ) in The Beggar's Opera

Miss Western: You are such a boor.
[he misunderstands her comment]
Squire Western: A boar? I am no boar!


--Hugh Griffith (as Squire Western) in Tom Jones

Charles Bonnet: American millionaires must be all quite mad. Perhaps it's something they put in the ink when they print the money.


--Hugh Griffith (as Charles Bonnet) in How to Steal a Million