Cornel Wilde Movie Quotes & Lines – 36 Classics (+ Audio) - page 3

Updated: Apr 9, 2025

Cornel Wilde in 1951

Movie quotes of the Hungarian-American actor Cornel Wilde (born Kornél Lajos Weisz; January 14, 1948 – February 1, 2024). Enjoy these quotes accompanied by short sound clips, available in MP3 and WAV formats.

21 Well, you see, I'm the teacher. You're the pupil. -Sure. I'm the one who gets spanked.

Cornel Wilde as Griff Marat; Patricia Knight as Jenny Marsh in Shockproof (1949)

22 What are you trying to prove? -I'm not sure yet. Maybe that the girl has character. -They all have when they're caught. Never should have been paroled.

As Griff Marat in Shockproof (1949)

23 What is a criminal? -Yeah, I've often wondered. I see 'em every day, but I still don't know.

As Griff Marat in Shockproof (1949)

24 I think the hazards will be greater if she sees you. You'll invite her to break rules, because you look on rules as things invented for suckers. You think the guy who gets away with things is smart.

As Griff Marat in Shockproof (1949)

25 You don't know what love is. -And you, teacher, do you know? -Well, not from experience, but I've imagined it differently.

Cornel Wilde as Griff Marat; Patricia Knight as Jenny Marsh in Shockproof (1949)

26 When you fall in love, really in love, I think you'd know it for sure. A man would feel, for the first time, how wonderful life could be when he has someone to share it with.

As Griff Marat in Shockproof (1949)

27 And he'd want to give her the good things of life, not just the trimmings. Friends, home, children. And he'd think of her before himself in everything. Her welfare, her future, her happiness.

As Griff Marat in Shockproof (1949)

28 Something about human nature. It happens all the time. Men show up and confess to crimes they committed five, ten, twenty years ago. -No kidding? -Sure. All of a sudden they get a conscience. Starts to get them down and a kind of corrosion sets in.

As Griff Marat in Shockproof (1949)

29 I get 40 bucks a week on this job. They won't catch up with that phony social security number, for 7 or 8 weeks. By that time, we'll have some money to get a long way from here.

As Griff Marat in Shockproof (1949)

30 You attempted suicide, you're under arrest! You could be sentenced to jail for six months!

As Leonard Diamond in The Big Combo (1955)

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