May I offer you some champagne? May I?

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

You can hear this line at 01:14:15 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

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- You're just in time to help me select my portrait.

- Did you ever see a book like this? It's a painter's catalog. The idea is to select the features that most resembles one.

- For example, ear number three, nose number six, and a chin number 27, equal General Yen.

- How do you like this nose? Do you think it resembles mine?

- Perhaps you wonder why I don't sit for the picture myself. You see, a Chinese is never painted until he has joined his ancestors.

- May I offer you some champagne? May I?

- In the days of our greatest civilization, we drank to excess. In fact, one of my ancestors, a very famous poet, was drowned in an attempt to catch the moon in the Yellow River.

- This portrait is of his wife who was made very unhappy by his death.

- She left a very famous collection of swords. I have them in my bedroom. May I show them to you?

- Please, why do you torture me?

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