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Well, if you want to know, my son Charlie is buying it this very minute.

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

You can hear this line at 00:13:37 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- You want the village run your old-fashioned way, and I want it run mine.

- I'll fancy there's not room for the two of us here.

- When are you going?

- Oh, never fear. I'm not going.

- I'm told that you wish to buy the centry and put up some more of your chimneys there, regardless of the fact that you'd utterly ruin a house we've had for generations and all of our pleasure here.

- Is it true about the centry?

- Gospel true.

- Well, if you want to know, my son Charlie is buying it this very minute.

- Ah, he's with the old lady. She wants to sell. And she'll get her price, whatever it is.

- If this isn't a skin game, I don't know what is.

- Oh! Huh! You've got a very nice expression there. Skin game.

- Well, bad words break no bones, and they're wonderful for hardening the heart. If it wasn't for a lady's presence, I could give you a specimen or two.

- That needn't stop you, I'm sure.

- Oh, and I don't know that it need.

[...]

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Now, look here, you've not had occasion to understand men like me. I've got the guts, and I've got the money and I don't sit still on it. I'm going ahead because I believe in meself. I've no use for sentiment and that sort of thing.
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What have you got, gout? Oh, that's unfortunate I never get it. I have no disposition that way. Had no ancestors, you see. Just me own drinking to answer for.
You seem to me a poor sort of creature that's bound to get left with your gout and your dignity. But of course, you can make yourself pretty disagreeable before you're done.
The Skin Game (1931) Sound Clip

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The best quotes from The Skin Game (1931 film by Alfred Hitchcock), with soundbites.

Actors: Edmund Gwenn (Mr Hornblower), Edward Chapman (Dawker), Helen Haye (Ivy Hillcrist), C. V. France (Jack Hillcrist)

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