I buy land, and you don't like that. It threatens the view from your windows.

— Mr Hornblower (Edmund Gwenn)

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5 seconds sound clip from the The Skin Game (1931) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:14:59 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- If I haven't a wife, I've got a daughter-in-law... have you called on her, ma'am? No.

- No, I'm new, and you're an old family. You don't like me.

- You think I'm a pushy man.

- I go to chapel, and you don't like that.

- I make things and I sell them. You don't like that.

- I buy land, and you don't like that. It threatens the view from your windows.

- Well, I don't like you, and I don't want to put up with your attitude.

- You've had things your own way too long, and now you're not gonna have them any longer.

- That's a declaration of war.

- Oh ho ho! Now, look here, I don't object to you personally.

[...]

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You seem to me a poor sort of creature that's bound to get left with your gout and your dignity. But of course, you can make yourself pretty disagreeable before you're done.
What have you got, gout? Oh, that's unfortunate I never get it. I have no disposition that way. Had no ancestors, you see. Just me own drinking to answer for.
You've ruined my son's married life and you've killed my grandchild.

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