How Green Was My Valley (1941)

Maureen O'Hara: Angharad Morgan

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Quotes 

• Angharad : Look now, you are king in the chapel. But I will be queen in my own kitchen.

  Mr. Gruffydd : You will be queen wherever you walk.

  Angharad : What does that mean?

  Mr. Gruffydd : ...I should not have said it.

  Angharad : Why?

  Mr. Gruffydd : I have no right to speak to you so.

  [he leaves] 

  Angharad : [stopping him]  Mr. Gruffydd, if the right is mine to give, you have it.

• [after the church elders castigate an unwed mother] 

  Angharad : How could you stand there and watch them? Cruel old men, groaning and nodding to hurt her more. That is not the Word of God! "Go now and sin no more," Jesus said!

  Mr. Gruffydd : Angharad! You know your Bible too well, and life too little.

  Angharad : I know enough of life to know that Meillyn Lewis is no worse than I am!

  Mr. Gruffydd : Angharad!

  Angharad : What do the deacons know about it? What do you know about what could happen to a poor girl when she loves a man so much that even to lose sight of him for a moment is torture!

• Angharad : [about Mr. Gruffydd]  How is he, Huw?

  Huw Morgan : Not as he was.

  Angharad : Is he ill?

  Huw Morgan : Inside, in his eyes, in his voice. Like you.

  Angharad : Please go home, Huw.

• Angharad : I couldn't spend another night without knowing. What has happened? Is anything wrong?

  Mr. Gruffydd : Wrong?

  Angharad : You know what I mean. Why have you changed towards me? Why am I a stranger now? Have I done anything?

  Mr. Gruffydd : No... the blame is mine. Your mother spoke to me after Chapel. She is happy to think you will be having plenty all your days.

  Angharad : [scornfully]  Iestyn Evans?

  Mr. Gruffydd : You could do no better.

  Angharad : I don't want him. I want you.

  Mr. Gruffydd : Angharad... I have spent nights too, trying to think this out. When I took up this work, I knew what it meant - it meant sacrifice and devotion and making it my whole life to the exclusion of everything else. That I was perfectly willing to do. But to share it with another... Do you think I will have you going threadbare all your life? Depending on the charity of others for your good meals? Our children growing up in cast-off clothing - and ourselves thanking God for parenthood in a house full of bits? No. I can bear with such a life for the sake of my work. But I think I would start to kill if I saw the white come to your hair twenty years before its time.

  Angharad : [softly]  Why? Why would you start to kill? Are you a man or a saint?

  Mr. Gruffydd : I am no saint, but I have a duty towards you. Let me do it.

  [Angharad kisses him, and leaves]