Skin game. When we began this fight, we had clean hands. Are they clean now?

fightinggamehandsjohn galsworthy

13 seconds sound clip from the The Skin Game (1931) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:21:57 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Ma'am... we wanted to thank you, sir.

- Thank you, sir. Thank you kindly.

- Good night, sir. Good night, ma'am.

- Good night, sir.

- I'd forgotten their existence.

- What is it that gets loose when you start a fight and makes you what you think you're not? Begin as you may, it ends in this skin game.

- Skin game. When we began this fight, we had clean hands. Are they clean now?

- What's gentility worth if it can't stand fire?

(Tree falling)

[...]

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What is it that gets loose when you start a fight and makes you what you think you're not? Begin as you may, it ends in this skin game.
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