How Green Was My Valley (1941)

Sara Allgood: Mrs. Beth Morgan

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• Beth Morgan : I have come up here to tell you what I think of you all, because you are talking against my husband. 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. To say he is with the owners is not only nonsense but downright wickedness. There's one thing more I've got to say and it is this. 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.

• Beth Morgan : Nothing is enough for people who have minds like cesspools. Oh Huw, my little one, I hope when you're grown their tongues will be slower to hurt.

• Beth Morgan : [as two of her sons leave]  America - my babies. This is only the beginning. Then all of you will go, one after the other - all of you.

  Huw Morgan : I will never leave you, Mama.

  Beth Morgan : Huw boy, if you should ever leave me, I'll be sorry I ever had babies.

  Huw Morgan : Why did you have them?

  Beth Morgan : To keep my hands in water and my face to the fire, perhaps.

• Mr. Morgan : Go along with you girl, a cup of tea for the men, is it?

  Beth Morgan : Tea?

  Cyfartha : Tea? No tea, Mrs. Morgan. In training he is.

  [holding up two fingers] 

  Cyfartha : A glass of beer, if you please.

  Beth Morgan : [exasperated sigh] 

• Beth Morgan : [to Huw]  Fight again, and when you come home, not a look shall you have from me... not a word!