Rev. Thomas Garfield: We have an old-fashioned custom here, Mr. Beal. Every afternoon at the end of the day, someone reads the boys a passage from the Bible. And whenever it's possible, we try to have someone different read. It makes them realize that the Bible belongs to us all. Would you like to read?
Nick Beal: Me? What do I know about things like that?
Rev. Thomas Garfield: That doesn't matter. I've marked the passage. It's one of the psalms of David.
Nick Beal: No. It's your book. Read it yourself.
Rev. Thomas Garfield: All right. The earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof, the world, and they that dwell therein, for he has founded it upon the seas and established it upon the floods. Who shall ascend unto the hill of the Lord, or who shall stand in his holy place? He that hath clean hands and a pure heart, who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully. He shall receive the blessing from the Lord, and righteousness from the God of his salvation. This is the generation of them that seek him, that seek thy face. Amen.


--George Macready (as Rev. Thomas Garfield) in Alias Nick Beal

Rev. Thomas Garfield: You've changed, Joseph.
Joseph Foster: How?
Rev. Thomas Garfield: Well, your clothes, for one thing.
Joseph Foster: Oh, well, what are clothes?
Rev. Thomas Garfield: And there are rumors about you and Miss Allen. I know I shouldn't mention them, or the story that you and Martha are estranged. Is it true?
Joseph Foster: Well, in a way... What's my personal trouble got to do with it?
Rev. Thomas Garfield: They're all indications of change. Then there's the influence that this Nick Beal seems to have over you.
Joseph Foster: Influence, nothing. He loaned me some money and I'll pay it back, and that's all.
Rev. Thomas Garfield: I wonder. Have you signed anything with him, any sort of contract?
Joseph Foster: Of course not. What are you driving at?
Rev. Thomas Garfield: I don't know exactly, but there's something strange about him, something eerie.
Joseph Foster: It's a pose to impress people.
Rev. Thomas Garfield: How did he get out of your house the night we were there? Why was he afraid to read the Bible?
Joseph Foster: Are you serious?
Rev. Thomas Garfield: I know I can't be, but I am. And there's another thing - somewhere I've seen a portrait of him, a medieval drawing or woodcut. I'm trying to remember where.
Joseph Foster: A drawing as what?
Rev. Thomas Garfield: Lucifer.
Joseph Foster: We're in the 20th century, Tom. Nobody's believed in such things since the Salem witch burnings. Besides, aren't there a few items missing? Where's the tail and the horns? Where's the smell of sulfur and brimstone? And where's the contract you're talking about, signed in blood and promising the delivery of one slightly used soul?
Rev. Thomas Garfield: Maybe the devil knows it's the 20th century too, Joseph.


--George Macready (as Rev. Thomas Garfield) in Alias Nick Beal

Schoolteacher: [watching a Nazi bookburning] I'm writing a novel myself. I'd be very disappointed if you gentlemen don't burn it.


--George Macready (as Schoolteacher) in Commandos Strike at Dawn

Younger Miles: If you expect me to sit around and watch you tear down everything I've built up, you're crazier than I think. I've worked hard to get where I am... and done everything a man can do. I've lied, cheated and stolen. I've even killed to build this set-up I've got now. And I'm not going to let any man destroy it. Least of all you.


--George Macready (as ) in Coroner Creek

Younger Miles: We can't afford to hunt him down ourselves. It ain't legal.
Frank Yordy: Say, that wouldn't stop you, Mr. Miles.
Younger Miles: Yordy, someday somebody's going to poke your tongue down your throat.


--George Macready (as ) in Coroner Creek

Gilbert Archer: I'll make you a proposition. You want that missing page. I want information.
Mrs. Stoker: Information, Mr. Archer?
Gilbert Archer: Let me put it this way. I have a few theories I'd like to have you confirm.
Matthew Stoker: Mr. Archer, you've always found me a very reasonable man.
Gilbert Archer: You've been reasonable, Holy Joe, but not very bright. You thought I was in this for the money, but from the first I only wanted to find out one thing: Who murdered Father Walsh. You did, you and that trained ape of yours.
Mrs. Stoker: Isn't that interesting?
Gilbert Archer: You didn't intend to kill Father Walsh, but when you put Rausch to work on him, he got too rough.
Matthew Stoker: Brilliant, Mr. Archer!
Gilbert Archer: And then you hanged his dead body from a beam and made it appear that a priest of God had taken his own life. You, Bradford, you called me to your office to make sure that my apartment would be unoccupied. While you were searching it, Catherine Walsh arrived with the first Bible, and you killed Catherine Walsh. Those are the theories I wanted to verify. Well, let's go.
Rev. George Bradford: Not yet. We're waiting for Mr. Helms to confirm the transaction.
Gilbert Archer: I'm willing to forego that now.
Matthew Stoker: No, no. We wouldn't have you do that, Mr. Archer. We'll wait. You were so insistent upon seeing him.


--George Macready (as ) in The Walls Came Tumbling Down

Johnny Farrell: I thought we agreed that women and gambling didn't mix.
Ballin Mundson: My wife does not come under the category of women, Johnny.


--George Macready (as Ballin Mundson) in Gilda

Michael Blake: How come a German speaks such good English?
Count Paul Rona: Who said I was German?
Michael Blake: Well, what are you?
Count Paul Rona: I've changed passports so often, I've lost touch. I was educated in England. My mother was a Czech, my father was a Pole. In those days, the Poles were Russians and the Czechs were Austrians. So you work it out.


--George Macready (as Count Paul Rona) in The Green Glove

Martha Foster: He's gone. But where?
Rev. Thomas Garfield: I wouldn't ask. You've won. That's the important thing. Forget him. Go home.


--George Macready (as Rev. Thomas Garfield) in Alias Nick Beal

Amelie de Montrevel: I too have heard, and from an excellent source, a gentleman recently took up residence here for the boar hunting, and yet he was unable to round up a single peasant to help him enjoy the sport.
Gaston de Montrevel: Who is this stranger?
Mme. de Montrevel: The Baron de St.-Hermain.
Gaston de Montrevel: De St.-Hermain? That fop! But for a miracle I would have killed him in a duel last evening!


--George Macready (as ) in The Fighting Guardsman