“If you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners corrupted from infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded, sire, but that you first make thieves and then punish them?”
Drew Barrymore - Danielle

“I don't think you can reform those types. No - you just kill them.”

Clarence Williams III - Mr. Simms

“- Cathy: Punish me.
- Heathcliff: I'm going to. When I take her in my arms, when I kiss her, when I promise her life and happiness.”

Merle Oberon - Cathy
Laurence Olivier - Heathcliff

“It seems it always happens. Whenever we get too high-hat and too sophisticated for flag-waving, some thug nation decides we're a push-over all ready to be blackjacked. And it isn't long before we're looking up, mighty anxiously, to be sure the flag's still waving over us.”
James Cagney - George M. Cohan

“- Major Tetley: Other men with families have had to die for this sort of thing. It's too bad, but it's justice.
- Donald Martin: What do you care about justice? You don't even care whether you've got the right men or not. All you know is you've lost something and somebody's got to be punished.”
Frank Conroy - Major Tetley
Dana Andrews - Donald Martin