How to die like a gentleman, how to die by the rules when the only important thing is how to live like a human being!
— Commander Shears (William Holden)
6 seconds sound clip from the The Bridge on the River Kwai movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 02:01:21.200 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- There's a stench of death about you. You carry it in your pack like the plague.
- Explosives and L pills, they go well together, don't they?
- And with you, it's just one thing or the other. Destroy a bridge or destroy yourself.
- This is just a game, this war.
- You and that Colonel Nicholson, you're two of a kind. You're crazy with courage. For what?
- If we go on, we go on together.
- Come on.
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