Is the tale too horrible for your ears, king?
4 seconds sound clip from the Alexander the Great (1956) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:10:46 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
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- We Macedonians are a religious people.
- A suicide must be buried in the night.
- Suicide?
- So it will read. She took her own life.
- Plucked from her arms, and thrown into the sacrificial flames in front of her eyes.
- For your mother too is a religious woman and seeks to appease the gods.
- Is the tale too horrible for your ears, king?
- Shall I tell you, too, who placed the noose around her pretty, white young neck?
- But I am a religious man, and accept the will of the gods.
- What's man's fate is man's fate, both yours and mine.
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