“How Green Was My Valley” quotes

“Men like my father cannot die. They are with me still, real in memory as they were in flesh, loving and beloved forever. How green was my valley then.”

Roddy McDowall - Huw

“If harm comes to my Gwilym, I will find out the men and I will kill them with my two hands. And this I will swear by God Almighty.”
Sara Allgood - Mrs. Morgan

“You are a lot of cowards to go against him. He has done nothing against you and he never has and you know it well. How some of you, you smug-faced hypocrites, can sit in the same chapel with him I cannot tell.”

Sara Allgood - Mrs. Morgan

“- Angharad: You are king in the chapel. But I will be queen in my own kitchen.
- Mr. Gruffydd: You will be queen wherever you walk.”
Maureen O'Hara - Angharad
Walter Pidgeon - Mr. Gruffydd

“Will anyone raise his voice here now to accuse me? No. You're cowards, too, as well as hypocrites. But I don't blame you. The fault is mine as much as yours.”

Walter Pidgeon - Mr. Gruffydd

“Fear has brought you here. Horrible, superstitious fear. Fear of divine retribution a bolt of fire from the skies. The vengeance of the Lord and the justice of God.”
Walter Pidgeon - Mr. Gruffydd

“I am leaving the valley with regret toward those who have helped me here, and who have let me help them. But, for the rest of you, those of you who have only proved that I have wasted my time among you, I have only this to say. There is not one among you who has had the courage to come to me and accuse me of wrongdoing.”

Walter Pidgeon - Mr. Gruffydd

“Everything I ever learnt as a small boy came from my father, and I never found anything he ever told me to be wrong or worthless. The simple lessons he taught me are as sharp and clear in my mind as if I had heard them only yesterday.”

Roddy McDowall - Huw

“I thought when I was a young man that I would conquer the world with truth. I thought I would lead an army greater than Alexander ever dreamed of, not to conquer nations, but to liberate mankind.”

Walter Pidgeon - Mr. Gruffydd

“With strength goes responsibility - to others and to yourselves. For you cannot conquer injustice with more injustice - only with justice and the help of God.”
Walter Pidgeon - Mr. Gruffydd

- Mr. Gruffydd: You must have faith. And if you have, you will walk again, no matter what all the doctors say.
- Huw: But he said "Nature must take her course".
- Mr. Gruffydd: Nature is the hand-maiden of the Lord.
Walter Pidgeon - Mr. Gruffydd
Roddy McDowall - Huw

“When you pray, think. Think well what you're saying. Make your thoughts into things that are solid. In that way, your prayer will have strength, and that strength will become a part of you, body, mind, and spirit.”

Walter Pidgeon - Mr. Gruffydd

“We are not questioning your authority, sir, but if manners prevent our speaking the truth, we will be without manners.”
John Loder - Ianto

“Memory... strange that the mind will forget so much of what only this moment has passed, and yet hold clear and bright the memory of what happened years ago.”

Roddy McDowall - Huw

“There is no fence nor hedge around time that is gone. You can go back and have what you like of it, if you can remember. So I can close my eyes on my valley as it is today, and it is gone, and I see it as it was when I was a boy.”
Roddy McDowall - Huw

“- Mr. Gruffydd: Where is the light I thought to see in your eye? Are you afraid, boy? You heard what the doctor said?
- Huw: Yes, sir.”

Walter Pidgeon - Mr. Gruffydd
Roddy McDowall - Huw

“You have forgotten the love of Jesus. You disregard His sacrifice. Death, fear, flames, horror and black clothes. Hold your meeting then, but know if you do this in the name of God and in the house of God, you blaspheme against Him and His Word.”

Walter Pidgeon - Mr. Gruffydd

“- Angharad: How is he, Huw?
- Huw: Not as he was.
- Angharad: Is he ill?
- Huw: Inside, in his eyes, in his voice. Like you.”

Maureen O'Hara - Angharad
Roddy McDowall - Huw

“A man is never too old to learn.”

Rhys Williams - Dai Bando