- Have you read Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky?
- No, I haven't.
- I have.

6 seconds sound clip from the The Shop Around the Corner (1940) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:54:04.976 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Bitter? Me? About leaving Matuschek and Company?

- When I got home and sat at the phone in five minutes I had what amounts to two offers.

- Well, I congratulate you. I wish you good luck.

- Oh, I see you're reading Tolstoy's Anna Karenina.

- Yes, do you mind?

- No, no. I just didn't expect to meet you in a cafe with Tolstoy, that's all. It's quite a surprise. I didn't know you went in for high literature.

- There are many things you don't know about me, Mr. Kralik.

- Uh-huh.

- Have you read Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky?

- No, I haven't.

- I have.

- There are many things you don't know about me, Miss Novak. As a matter of fact, there might be a lot we don't know about each other.

- You know, people seldom go to the trouble of scratching the surface of things to find the inner truth.

- Well, I really wouldn't care to scratch your surface, Mr. Kralik, because I know exactly what I'd find. Instead of a heart, a handbag. Instead of a soul, a suitcase. And instead of an intellect a cigarette lighter which doesn't work.

- Well, that's very nicely put. Yes, comparing my intellect with a cigarette lighter that doesn't work.

- Yeah, that's a very interesting mixture of poetry and meanness.

[...]

The Shop Around the Corner (1940) Sound Clip

The Shop Around the Corner (1940) poster

Listen to famous short quotes from The Shop Around the Corner (1940) freely downloadable in MP3 / WAV format.

Actors: James Stewart (Alfred Kralik), Margaret Sullavan (Klara Novak), Frank Morgan (Hugo Matuschek), William Tracy (Pepi Katona)

[Amazon link] #ad

Latest Movie Sound Bites

Poll

You are using film sounds: