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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barbara stanwyck enjoying life happiness

17 seconds sound clip from the The Bitter Tea of General Yen movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:00:28 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- But I want you to think of all those things and then forgive her.

- I don't know how you feel about Mah-Li, whether you love her, well, as a lover. But that's of no importance.

- I want you to see the beauty of giving love where it isn't merited.

- 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.

- General, with all you have within you, your superior brain, your culture, how can you be so blind to spiritual greatness?

- 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...

- I have one of my own.

- That's what you said to me that day.

- You must be sincere, Miss Davis. I don't believe a word you say. But when you ask me like that, I forget I am General Yen.

- Then you won't have her killed?

- But I ask myself, what do you get out of it?

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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.

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.

Don't you tell me everything you know? And if you don't, don't I know how to find it out anyway?

Yen was crazy. He said we never really die. We only change. He was nuts about cherry trees. Maybe he is a cherry tree now.

Not my words. The one who first spoke them gave up his life for them.

The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933) Sound Clip

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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