Another Dawn (1937)

Ian Hunter: Col John Wister

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• Col John Wister : Are these the only socks I have?

  Wilkins - Wister's Orderly : Oh, no, Sir. You have others.

  Col John Wister : Well, where are they?

  Wilkins - Wister's Orderly : You've got them on, Sir.

• Col John Wister : There's a very thin line between a man being a coward and a hero. There's just that little something that makes him go either one way or the other.

• Col John Wister : That's freedom. Escape from the world entirely. To be up there with infinity to fly through and eternity to find and both of them yours for the taking.

• Col John Wister : To whom and to what are you going back to America?

  Julia Ashton : To nothing and to none. That's why I'm going there. Instead of staying here were I've been happy. It's a little too difficult to try and build a new life from the ashes of the old.

  Col John Wister : And what do you expect of this new life? Happiness? A career?

  Julia Ashton : I haven't the talent for a career. Nor, the capacity for happiness anymore. No. All I'm looking for is contentment. The opportunity to be useful enough to justify living.

• Grace Roark : You haven't forgotten anything?

  Col John Wister : I swear I've packed everything. Even my heavy underwear.

  Grace Roark : Good!

• Mrs. Lydia Benton : Most of our guests don't seem to be happy unless they're perspiring. They're all out, batting some sort of a ball about. Take your choice: tennis, golf, polo or ping pong. If Lord Alden feels up to it?

  Lord Alden : What about some bridge?

  Col John Wister : Well, what I'd really like to do is try my hand at golf.

• Sir Chas. Benton : Do you mind being beaten by a woman?

  Col John Wister : If any woman beats me, I beat her right back!

• Julia Ashton : What was that?

  Col John Wister : Oh, nothing. Just one of those pat Arabic phrases that fit almost anything.

  Julia Ashton : What does it mean?

  Col John Wister : It means, the hopes we have for tomorrow, die today.

• Col John Wister : Can he be bribed?

  Capt. Denny Roark : He might, Sir. For a terrific amount.

• Col John Wister : If they were less honorable, there would be a solution. But, unfortunately, you can't discard honor any more than you can love.