That's hardly the way to talk to a man and woman who may be dead tomorrow.

4 seconds sound clip from the Isle of the Dead (1945) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:39:59.664 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- This trouble, this sickness we have, the fact that we may all die, toward that am I different?

- Yeah, I suppose you are.

- How?

- Well, Albrecht and I, and St. Aubyn, too, before he died, we sort of take it, accept it, but you're fighting it.

- It seems to me you're fighting something bigger than the plague, wrestling with something you can't see, and Kyra, too. I get that feeling from Kyra.

- And Thea?

- She's young.

- You're going out to meet her. I wouldn't go.

- What are you going to do, General? Give me a paternal lecture on bringing Thea home early?

- That's hardly the way to talk to a man and woman who may be dead tomorrow.

- Where are you going?

- I'm not sleepy. I'm going out.

- You're going back to your room.

- You know what my troops call me?

- They call you The Watchdog.

- Yes.

- We have the plague here. I said I'd stand watch against the plague.

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