- You don't like women, do you?
- On the contrary, I love women, but I don't admire them.

— Monsieur Henri Verdoux (Charlie Chaplin)

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7 seconds sound clip from the Monsieur Verdoux movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:04:08 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Yet life is wonderful.

- What's wonderful about it?

- Everything. Spring morning, a summer's night music, art, love...

- Love?

- There is such a thing.

- How do you know?

- I was in love once.

- You mean you were physically attracted by someone.

- It was more than that.

- I suppose women are capable of something more.

- You don't like women, do you?

- On the contrary, I love women, but I don't admire them.

- Why?

- Women are of the earth, realistic, dominated by physical facts.

- What nonsense!

- Once a woman betrays a man, she despises him. In spite of his goodness and position, she will give him up for someone inferior if that someone is more, shall we say, attractive.

[...]

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