“The Bitter Tea of General Yen” quotes
(1933)
Frank Capra
directed this movie
in 1933
Title The Bitter Tea of General Yen
Year 1933
Director Frank Capra
Genre Drama, Romance, War
Year 1933
Director Frank Capra
Genre Drama, Romance, War
All actors – Barbara Stanwyck, Nils Asther, Toshia Mori, Walter Connolly, Gavin Gordon, Lucien Littlefield, Richard Loo, Helen Jerome Eddy, Emmett Corrigan, Jessie Arnold, Clara Blandick, Robert Bolder
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“I want you to see the beauty of giving love where it isn't merited.”
“Oh orphans, what are they anyway? People without anything. Nothing.”
“I promise you that for the first time in your life you'll know what real happiness is.”
“The only way to get loyalty is to compel it.”
“- Jones: She's just a conniving little dame who deserves every bit that's coming to her.
- Megan: Including murder, I suppose?”“The subtlety of you Orientals is very much overestimated.”
“How can you be so blind to spiritual braveness?”
“You have the true missionary spirit.”
“Don't be fooled about his looking civilized. They're all tricky, treacherous and immoral.”
“The conquest of a province, or the conquest of a woman. What's the difference?”
“There are times when I would like to laugh at you, but there are also times when I find you... admirable.”
“Any man can give love where he's sure of its return. That isn't love at all. But, to give love with no merit, no thought of return, no thought of gratitude even, that's ordinarily the privilege of God.”
“I had misinterpreted their interest in the story: the next caravan of merchants that crossed the Gobi Desert was captured by them, and... crucified.”
“You can always do so much more with mercy than you can with murder.”
“There has never been a people more purely artist, and therefore, more purely lover, than the Chinese.”
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