You know the truth in your heart. The sea hit you a clout once and knocked you down.

6 seconds sound clip from the Anna Christie (1930) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:06:12 in the DVD version of the movie.

Quote context

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- It is queer fool's blather you have, about the sea done this and the sea done that.

- You ought to be ashamed to be saying the like, you an old sailor.

- I'm hearing a lot from you, and a lot more that Anna tells me... you do be saying to her.

- I'm thinking it is a poor weak thing you are. Not a man at all.

- You see if I'm man maybe quicker than you think.

- You know the truth in your heart. The sea hit you a clout once and knocked you down.

- You're not man enough to get up for another, but you lie there for the rest of your life howling murder.

- I'd like to see you in the best of your youth. Do what I done in the storm and after.

- Why, you young fool, you. In old days, when I was on windjammer I went through hundred storms worse than that.

- Ships were ships then, and men what sailing them real men.

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