The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933) Quotes with Sound Clips

Quotes from "The Bitter Tea of General Yen" (1933 film, directed by Frank Capra), featuring short sound clips with voice.

Actors: Barbara Stanwyck (Megan Davis), Nils Asther (General Yen), Walter Connolly (Jones)

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1 Any man can give love where he's sure it's returned. That isn't love at all. But to give love with no thought of merit, no thought of return, no thought of gratitude even, that's ordinarily the privilege of God. And now it's your privilege.

— Megan Davis (Barbara Stanwyck)

2 In the days of our greatest civilization, we drank to excess. In fact, one of my ancestors, a very famous poet, was drowned in an attempt to catch the moon in the Yellow River.

3 I was telling the story of the Crucifixion to some Mongolian tribesmen.

4 East or West, men seldom deviate very far from their main passion in life.

— Megan Davis (Barbara Stanwyck)

5 Have you ever seen our paintings of women walking among fruit trees? Where the fruit trees look like women, and the women look like fruit trees.

6 You can always do so much more with mercy than you can with murder.

— Megan Davis (Barbara Stanwyck)

7 Aren't you going to do anything for that boy? He may be dying. -If so, he is very fortunate. Life, even at its best, is hardly endurable.

8 But isn't it better to shoot them quickly than let them starve to death slowly?

9 Can't you silence her in some other way? -Yes. In the old days, in the days of the Manchus, I could have had her tongue cut out.

10 Do this thing, I ask you. Do it for me. Do it even blindly, if you must, and I promise you, I'm so sure of it, I promise you that for the first time in your life you'll know what real happiness is. You'll know that I...

— Megan Davis (Barbara Stanwyck)

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