You would like to be able to boast to him that the great General Yen, whom everybody feared, was destroyed because he was fool enough to hope.
11 seconds sound clip from the The Bitter Tea of General Yen movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:16:35 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- It was your life you put up as a forfeit for Mah-Li's loyalty.
- My life?
- Yes. What else do you think it meant?
- I see. You're afraid of death as you are afraid of life.
- You want me to send you back to your Dr. Strike.
- He speaks the same meaningless words as you do. He has everything you want.
- Well, why don't you go? Go on to him.
- You taught me a terrible lesson.
- Yes. For to be able to do good works, one has to have wisdom.
- You depended too much on your beauty, and also on the fact that you are so young.
- Young and pale as a lotus blossom which blooms at night.
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Actors: Barbara Stanwyck (Megan Davis), Nils Asther (General Yen), Walter Connolly (Jones)
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