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We're taught charm and grace and no more. I cannot add or spell or anything.

8 seconds sound clip from the A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:22:05 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- What? Well, you do too... I imagine, I mean.

- I would show them to you, but they are sold.

- I cost 500 minae. Is that a lot of money?

- Yes.

- More than 300?

- Nearly twice as much.

- 3 and 5... they always mix me up. I hope the captain doesn't expect me to do a lot of adding.

- You can't add?

- We're taught charm and grace and no more. I cannot add or spell or anything.

- I have but one talent: I'm lovely, all I am is lovely. Lovely is the one thing I can do.

- Winsome, what I am is winsome, radiant as in some dream come true.

- Oh, isn't it a shame I can neither sew, nor cook, nor read, nor write my name?

- But I'm happy merely being lovely, for it's the one thing I can give to you.

- Say my name.

- Just say your name?

- Yes!

- Very well then. I've forgotten it.

[...]

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum Sound Clip

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966) poster

Funny quotes from the movie A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966), with short sound clips.

Actors: Zero Mostel (Pseudolus), Michael Crawford (Hero), Phil Silvers (Marcus Lycus), Leon Greene (Miles Gloriosus), Buster Keaton (Erronius), Michael Hordern (Senex)

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