The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933) Quotes with Sound Clips - page 2

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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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11 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.
12 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)

13 I am the big squeeze and if I do say it myself, I can milk more money out of this province than any man alive.
14 I see. You're afraid of death as you are afraid of life.
15 I swear I'll never betray your trust. I swear by my fathers and by the bones of my ancestors, and by the holy book in the mission school.
16 I've spent 50 years in China. And there are times when I think we are just a lot of persistent ants trying to move a great mountain.
17 Perhaps you wonder why I don't sit for the picture myself. You see, a Chinese is never painted until he has joined his ancestors.
18 We may have to convince him with lead instead of silver.
19 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.
20 You've already got a Great Wall around you that isn't built of mud and stones. It's made of ridiculous pride and inhuman cruelty.

— Megan Davis (Barbara Stanwyck)

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