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Because he's everything you're not. He's been poor, he's had to work and he's had to fight for everything. And I love him as I never even began to love you.

11 seconds sound clip from the The Philadelphia Story movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:45:36 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- The moon is also a goddess, chaste and virginal.

- Stop using those foul words.

- Dexter, what are you trying to make me out as?

- Tracy, what do you fancy yourself as?

- I don't know that I fancy myself as.

- When I read you were gonna marry Kittredge, I couldn't believe it. That's why I'm here. How in the world can you even think of it?

- Because he's everything you're not. He's been poor, he's had to work and he's had to fight for everything. And I love him as I never even began to love you.

- Maybe so, but I doubt it. I think it's just a swing from me. But it's too violent a swing.

- Kittredge is no great tower of strength, you know. He's just a tower.

- You hardly know him.

- Well, to hardly know him is to know him well.

- And perhaps it offends my vanity to have anyone who was even remotely my wife remarry so obviously beneath her.

- How dare you, any of you, in this day and age, use such an idiotic...?

[...]

The Philadelphia Story (1940) Sound Clip

The Philadelphia Story (1940) Poster

Discover the best lines from the classic film "The Philadelphia Story" with our collection of quotes featuring sound bites from the movie.

Actors: James Stewart (Macaulay Connor), Cary Grant (C.K. Dexter Haven), Katharine Hepburn (Tracy Lord), Ruth Hussey (Elizabeth Imbrie), Virginia Weidler (Dinah Lord), Roland Young (Uncle Willie)

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