5 seconds sound clip from the The Philadelphia Story movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:47:18 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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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.
- 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.
- Because you'll never be a first-class human being or a first-class woman until you've learned to have some regard for human frailty.
- It's a pity your own foot can't slip a little sometime. But your sense of inner divinity wouldn't allow that.
- This goddess must and shall remain intact.
- There are more of you than people realize. A special class of the American female: the married maidens.
- So help me, if you say another word, I'll...
- I'm through. For the moment I've had my say.
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