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Whereas you're possessed of all the wisdom of the ages.

3 seconds sound clip from the The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 02:03:38.448 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Oh, it was all perfectly respectable.

- But when we were saying goodbye, he took me in his arms and kissed me and I knew.

- And you think a kiss from a smooth operator like Fred, you think that means anything?

- You don't know him. You don't know anything about what's inside him. Neither does she. His wife.

- That's probably what she thought when she married him. A smooth operator with money in his pockets. But now he isn't smooth any longer, and she's lost interest in him.

- Whereas you're possessed of all the wisdom of the ages.

- You can see into the secret recesses of his innermost soul.

- I can see because I love him.

- So you're gonna break this marriage up. Have you decided yet how you're gonna do it? You gonna do it with an ax?

- It's none of your business how I'm going to do it.

- You've forgotten what it's like to be in love.

- You hear that, Milly? I'm so old and decrepit, I've forgotten how it feels to want somebody desperately.

[...]

The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) Sound Clip

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Memorable quotes from the 1946 film The Best Years of Our Lives, with sound clips in WAV and MP3 formats.

Actors: Myrna Loy (Milly Stephenson), Fredric March (Al Stephenson), Dana Andrews (Fred Derry), Teresa Wright (Peggy Stephenson), Virginia Mayo (Marie Derry), Cathy O'Donnell (Wilma Cameron), Harold Russell (Homer Parrish)

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