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- I suppose you'd still be attractive to any man of spirit though. There's something engaging about it, this goddess business, something more challenging to the male than the, uh, more obvious charms.
- Really?
- Really.

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

You can hear this line at 00:46:34 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- You could marry Mac, the night watchman, I'd cheer for you.

- Kittredge is not for you.

- You bet he's for me. He's a great man and a good man. Already he's of national importance.

- You sound like Spy magazine talking.

- But whatever he is, Toots, you'll have to stick. He'll give you no out as I did.

- I won't require one.

- I suppose you'd still be attractive to any man of spirit though. There's something engaging about it, this goddess business, something more challenging to the male than the, uh, more obvious charms.

- Really?

- Really.

- We're very vain, you know. 'This citadel can and shall be taken, and I'm the boy to do it.'

- You seem quite contemptuous of me all of a sudden.

- No, Red, not of you. Never of you.

- Red, you could be the finest woman on this earth.

- I'm contemptuous of something inside of you you either can't help or make no attempt to. Your so-called strength, your prejudice against weakness, your blank intolerance.

- Is that all?

- That's the gist of it.

[...]

The Philadelphia Story (1940) Sound Clip

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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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