Julius Caesar:
Rome is the mob.
Marcus Licinius Crassus: No! Rome is an eternal thought in the mind of God.
Julius Caesar: I'd no idea you'd grown religious.
Marcus Licinius Crassus: [laughs] It doesn't matter. If there were no gods at all I'd still revere them. If there were no Rome, I'd dream of her.
--Laurence Olivier (as Marcus Licinius Crassus) in Spartacus
Marcus Licinius Crassus: No! Rome is an eternal thought in the mind of God.
Julius Caesar: I'd no idea you'd grown religious.
Marcus Licinius Crassus: [laughs] It doesn't matter. If there were no gods at all I'd still revere them. If there were no Rome, I'd dream of her.
--Laurence Olivier (as Marcus Licinius Crassus) in Spartacus
[Crassus, as the new Consul, addresses the legions and the Senate]
Marcus Licinius Crassus: I promise you, a new Rome. A new Italy, and a new Empire.
[pause]
Marcus Licinius Crassus: This, I have sworn by the spirits of my ancestors. This I have sworn, in the temple that guards their bones.
--Laurence Olivier (as Marcus Licinius Crassus) in Spartacus
Marcus Licinius Crassus: I promise you, a new Rome. A new Italy, and a new Empire.
[pause]
Marcus Licinius Crassus: This, I have sworn by the spirits of my ancestors. This I have sworn, in the temple that guards their bones.
--Laurence Olivier (as Marcus Licinius Crassus) in Spartacus
Heathcliff:
You just want to send me off. That won't do. I've stayed here and been beaten like a dog, abused and cursed and driven mad, but I stayed just to be near you, even as a dog. And I'll stay 'til the end. I'll live and I'll die under this rock.
--Laurence Olivier (as Heathcliff) in Wuthering Heights
--Laurence Olivier (as Heathcliff) in Wuthering Heights
Heathcliff:
I cannot live without my life! I cannot die without my soul!
--Laurence Olivier (as Heathcliff) in Wuthering Heights
--Laurence Olivier (as Heathcliff) in Wuthering Heights
Heathcliff:
I want to crawl to her feet, whimper to be forgiven... for loving me. For needing her more than my own life... for belonging to her more than my own soul.
--Laurence Olivier (as Heathcliff) in Wuthering Heights
--Laurence Olivier (as Heathcliff) in Wuthering Heights
Heathcliff:
If he loved you with all the power of his soul for a whole lifetime, he couldn't love you as much as I do in a single day.
--Laurence Olivier (as Heathcliff) in Wuthering Heights
--Laurence Olivier (as Heathcliff) in Wuthering Heights
Heathcliff:
If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I'd be your slave. Cathy, if your heart were only stronger than your dull fear of God and the world, I'd live contented, silently in your shadow. But No. You must destroy us both with that weakness you call virtue.
--Laurence Olivier (as Heathcliff) in Wuthering Heights
--Laurence Olivier (as Heathcliff) in Wuthering Heights
Heathcliff:
My tears don't love you, Cathy. They blight and curse and damn you!
Cathy: Heathcliff, don't break my heart.
Heathcliff: Oh Cathy, I never broke your heart. You broke it!
--Laurence Olivier (as Heathcliff) in Wuthering Heights
Cathy: Heathcliff, don't break my heart.
Heathcliff: Oh Cathy, I never broke your heart. You broke it!
--Laurence Olivier (as Heathcliff) in Wuthering Heights
Heathcliff:
Tell the dirty stable boy to let go of you. He soiled your pretty dress. But who soiled your heart? Not Heathcliff. Who turns you into a vain, cheap, worldly fool? Linton does. You'll never love him, but you'll let yourself be loved because it pleases your stupid, greedy vanity.
--Laurence Olivier (as Heathcliff) in Wuthering Heights
--Laurence Olivier (as Heathcliff) in Wuthering Heights
Mr. Darcy:
I rather admired what you did this afternoon Miss Elizabeth. Your resentment of what you believe to be an injustice showed courage and loyalty. I could wish i might possess a friend who would defend me as ably as Mr. Wickham was defended today.
Elizabeth Bennett: At this moment it's difficult to believe that you're so proud.
Mr. Darcy: At this moment it's difficult to believe that you're so prejudiced.
--Laurence Olivier (as Mr. Darcy) in Pride and Prejudice
Elizabeth Bennett: At this moment it's difficult to believe that you're so proud.
Mr. Darcy: At this moment it's difficult to believe that you're so prejudiced.
--Laurence Olivier (as Mr. Darcy) in Pride and Prejudice
