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You have an astonishing purity. It's a quality I've always found exceedingly attractive in the young.

11 seconds sound clip from the The Loved One (1965) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:50:01 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Let me get you a drink... some benedictine, perhaps, from the monasteries of the Trappist monks... A truly spiritual potion.

- No. no, thank you.

- Please. Yes, we are rather overdue for a little talk, aren't we, my child?

- Reverend, I know this will sound very foolish to you, but I was so shocked by what this person said to me that I felt that I had to tell you about it.

- Exactly what did he say, Miss Thanatogenos?

- He said that... That you... You were going to change Whispering Glades into something else.

- You have an astonishing purity. It's a quality I've always found exceedingly attractive in the young.

- It was just madness... what he said, wasn't it? Just madness and evil?

- Let me assure you that there will most definitely be a place for you, regardless of any change in operation, beginning with a stiff boost in salary.

- But Whispering Glades?

- Yes, yes. That was all very well in the life of its time, but now, all things must change. We're a nation on the move.

- Death... Death has become a middle-class business. There's no future in it.

[...]

The Loved One (1965) Sound Clip

The Loved One (1965) poster

Hear memorable quotes from "The Loved One" in this collection of sound bites from the black comedy film based on Evelyn Waugh's novel.

Actors: Robert Morse (Dennis Barlow), Anjanette Comer (Aimée Thanatogenos), Jonathan Winters (Harry and Wilbur Glenworthy), Rod Steiger (Mr. Joyboy), John Gielgud (Sir Francis Hinsley), Lionel Stander (The Guru Brahmin)

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