We've learned that if you want to make a man talk, send a pretty woman. And when we want to make a woman talk, we make her jealous. Both theories work amazingly well.

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12 seconds sound clip from the The 39 Steps (1937) classic radio play.

You can hear this line at 00:40:32 in the radio play.

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- And a properly prepared nation is a nation seldom attacked. The war that they are ready for rarely comes.

- If what I've observed is true, you soldiers who fight with your brains instead of bayonets are finding more and more women as your co-workers.

- How does a woman compare with a man as a spy?

- Very favorably... up to one point.

- A woman's heart will rule her head much more quickly than a man's.

- Today, there is probably one woman to every two men in the world's espionage service.

- We've learned that if you want to make a man talk, send a pretty woman. And when we want to make a woman talk, we make her jealous. Both theories work amazingly well.

- It would appear to me that spying is one activity which provides little or no room for modernization.

- Along with qualifications, I presume that methods have changed little since the days of Moses.

- That's very true. They remain essentially unchanged.

- But there have been radical technical changes in carrying out those essentials.

- For instance, there's a machine, recently developed in this country, so delicate and so accurate that it can etch an invisible secret message on a surface no larger than a grain of corn.

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