Finlay Currie Quotes

Abel Magwitch Dear boy. I thought you wasn't comin'... and yet, I knew somehow that you would.

Pip It's just the time. I waited at the gates, so as not to lose a moment of it.

Abel Magwitch God bless you. You never deserted me. What's best of all is... you've been more comfortable alonger me, since I was under a dark cloud, than when the sun shone. That's best of all.

Pip Are you in pain?

Abel Magwitch I... I don't complain of none, dear boy.

Pip You never do complain.

Prison Governor You'd better stay.

Pip I have something to tell you. Can you... understand what I say?

Pip You had a child once, whom you loved and lost. She lived, and found powerful friends. She is living now. She is a lady, and very beautiful. And... I love her.

Pip O Lord, be merciful to him... a sinner.

Abel Magwitch I wish to say something respectin this escape. It may prevent some persons laying under suspicion alonger me.

Sergeant What is it?

Abel Magwitch I took some food from the blacksmith near the village over yonder. It was a dram of liquor and a pie.

Sergeant You happened to have missed such an article as a pie, blacksmith?

Joe Gargery Well, my wife did the very moment you came in.

Abel Magwitch Oh, so you're the blacksmith, are you? Then I'm sorry to say, I... I've eat your pie.

Joe Gargery Oh, you're welcome to it, as far as ever it were mine. We don't know what you've done, but we wouldn't have you starve to death for it, poor miserable fellow-creature, would us, Pip?

Judah This is where your search has brought you, Balthasar. He gave me water... and a heart to live. What has He done to merit this?

Balthasar He has taken the world of our sins onto Himself. To this end He said He was born, in that stable, where I first saw Him. For this cause, He came into the world.

Judah For this death?

Balthasar For this beginning.

Abel Magwitch Dear boy. … I thought you wasn't coming and yet I knew somehow that you would. … God bless you! You have never deserted me and what's best of all is you've been more comfortable alonger me since I was under a dark cloud... than... than when the sun shone. That's best of all.

Abel Magwitch Now look here - do you know what a file is?

Pip Yes, sir.

Abel Magwitch Do you know what wittles is?

Pip Yes, sir. Food, sir.

Abel Magwitch Then get me a file and wittles or I'll have your heart and liver out.

Pip If you'd let me keep upright, sir, perhaps I shouldn't be sick and I could attend more.

Abel Magwitch You bring that file and wittles to me here tomorrow morning.

Pip Yes, sir.

Abel Magwitch And never say a word of having seen such a person as me.

Pip No, sir.

Abel Magwitch If you do, your heart and liver'll be tore out and roasted and ate. There's a young man hid with me, and in comparison with him I'm an angel! That young man has a secret way of getting at a boy and his liver. A boy may lock his door and be warm in bed, but that young man'll softly creep his way to him and tear him open! Say Heaven strike you dead if you don't!

Pip Heaven strike me dead if I don't!

Abel Magwitch Now you know what you promised, young man. Get off home.

Pip Good night, sir!

Sheik Ilderim Judah Ben-Hur, my people are praying for a man who can drive their team to victory over Messala. You could be that man! You could be the one to stamp this Roman's arrogance into the sand of that arena. You've seen my horses. They need only a driver who is worthy of them. One who would rule them with love and not the whip. For such a man, they would have raced the wind.

Judah I must deal with Messala in my own way.

Balthasar And your way is to kill him. I see this terrible thing in your eyes, Judah Ben-Hur. But no matter what this man has done to you, you have no right to take his life. He will be punished inevitably.

Judah I don't believe in miracles.

Balthasar Your whole life is a miracle. Why will you not accept God's judgment? You do not believe in miracles, yet God once spoke to me out of the darkness, and a star led me to a village called Bethlehem where I found a newborn child in a manger. And God lived in this child. By now, he is a grown man, and must be ready to begin his work. And that is why I have returned here, so that I may be at hand when he comes among us. He is near. He saw the sun set this evening as we did. Perhaps he's standing in a doorway somewhere on a hilltop. Perhaps he is a shepherd watching, a fisherman. But he lives in all our lives. From now on we'll carry his mark. There are many paths to God, my son. I hope yours will not be too difficult.