You missionaries come out here and expect to convert 500 million people overnight.

6 seconds sound clip from the The Bitter Tea of General Yen movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:56:43 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- Besides, the General's gone to bed.

- If you think I am going to let that child...

- Now, Miss Davis, maybe you think I acted pretty rotten tonight, but I know what I'm talking about.

- She's not your kind. She's just a conniving little dame who deserves every bit that's coming to her.

- Including murder, I suppose.

- You let the General be the judge of that. He runs his own show out here with about 50 centuries of authority back of him.

- You missionaries come out here and expect to convert 500 million people overnight.

- Why, changing a leopard's spots is duck soup compared to changing China. You are lucky to be alive out here yourself.

- Now, you go back to your room, go to bed and behave.

- Not until I've seen the General. I'd like to see the General.

- Please, Miss Davis, have a little common sense.

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