Pip: [narrating] I realized that in becoming a gentleman, I had only succeeded in becoming a snob.


--John Mills (as Pip) in Great Expectations

Platon Karatsev: [explaining why a boy was executed] Where there's law, there's injustice.
[to his dog]
Platon Karatsev: C'mon, boy, get up, get up!
[to Pierre]
Platon Karatsev: But the maggot eats the cabbage - yet dies first.
Pierre Bezukhov: What did you say?
Platon Karatsev: I say things happen not as we plan them but as God judges.


--John Mills (as Platon Karataev) in War and Peace (1956)

Platon Karatsev: [to the French soldier who is about to execute him during the retreat] Are you afraid too, friend?


--John Mills (as Platon Karataev) in War and Peace (1956)

Robert Miller: It's no good, Peters. I'm fed up with girls.
Robert Miller: [notices Vera through a window] I think.


--John Mills (as ) in Car of Dreams

Superintendent Graham: I wouldn't have you for a friend, Gillie.


--John Mills (as ) in Tiger Bay

Tommy Tyler: I ain't been much of a father to you have I? The day you were born I said to myself, here's one for freedom. Here's one they won't get. The night you were launched I reckon I was the happiest guy alive. I couldn't stop wondering what the finest thing I could do for you was. And then I knew... or I thought I knew. Well that 'fine thing' is the life you have now. Only now I'm beginning to wonder if it was the right thing after all. Fathers don't usually figure on their little girls growing up.


--John Mills (as ) in The Truth About Spring

Tommy Tyler: I ain't gonna ask you why you weren't here to get supper last night. And I ain't gonna ask you why you weren't here to get breakfast this morning. I ain't even gonna ask you why you left the Sarah all alone without a soul on board. And I got other things in mind I ain't gonna ask you about.


--John Mills (as ) in The Truth About Spring

Tommy Tyler: I got a safe deposit box in Tampa with four thousand one hundred and sixty-seven dollars and twenty-two cents. Now if it develops today I ain't as smart as I think I am, see that she gets into some girls' school. A strict one.


--John Mills (as ) in The Truth About Spring

Tommy Tyler: I told you he'd be here. If he hadn't been, I'd of lost all faith in crooks.


--John Mills (as ) in The Truth About Spring

Tommy Tyler: I want to talk to Ashton.
Spring Tyler: Are you going to shoot him?
Tommy Tyler: Should I?
Spring Tyler: He didn't do anything but keep me warm.
Tommy Tyler: That's what God made fire for.


--John Mills (as ) in The Truth About Spring