“A Tale of Two Cities” quotes
(1935)
Title A Tale of Two Cities
Year 1935
Directors Jack Conway, Robert Z. Leonard
Genre Drama, History, Romance
Year 1935
Directors Jack Conway, Robert Z. Leonard
Genre Drama, History, Romance
Plot – An emigrated French guy meets in London the daughter of a prisoner of the Bastille and the two fall in love. After the 1789 revolution, he returns to France and there he's sentenced to death. A London lawyer goes to France and replaces himself with the condemned to redeem himself from his life as a spendthrift and an alcoholic.
All actors – Ronald Colman, Elizabeth Allan, Edna May Oliver, Reginald Owen, Basil Rathbone, Blanche Yurka, Henry B. Walthall, Donald Woods, Walter Catlett, Fritz Leiber, H.B. Warner, Mitchell Lewis
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“- Seamstress: You're not afraid. The others are only pretending, but you... it's almost as if you welcomed it.
- Sydney Carton: Perhaps I do. Perhaps in death, I receive something I never had in life - I hold a sanctuary in the hearts of those I care for.”“- Madame Therese De Farge: Do you know who I am?
- Miss Pross: You might - from your appearance - be the wife of Lucifer.”“You're so brave. When we go to the guillotine, will you let me hold your hand? That might give me courage.”
“- Sydney Carton: Keep your eyes on me. Mind nothing else.
- Seamstress: I can bear it so long as I'm near you.”“Forgive me if I notice that you are affected. I shouldn't respect your sorrow more if you were my own father. From that misfortune, however, you are free. Indeed, that is one thing to be grateful for, I suppose.”
“We men of business must think of the house we serve more than ourselves.”
“Will you hold me in your mind as being ardent and sincere in this one thing? Think now and then that there is a man who would give his life to keep a life you love beside you?”
“It's extraordinary to me that you people cannot take care of yourselves and your children.”
“It's a far, far better thing I do than I have ever done. It's a far, far better rest I go to than I have ever known.”
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