The Narrow Corner (1933)

Dudley Digges: Doctor Saunders

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• Fred Blake : I want life to be fair. I want life to be brave and honest. I'm not willing to stand by while the good are punished and the wicked go scott free. I want all men to be descent. Surely, that's not asking too much.

  Doctor Saunders : I don't know. It's asking more than life can give. Remember the words of Disraeli, Youth is a blunder, Maturity is struggle, and Old Age are a grit.

• Fred Blake : I don't know what it all means. Why am I here? Where am I going?

  Doctor Saunders : My dear boy, men have been asking those questions since they stopped throwing coconuts at each other in the primeval forests and picked up a glimmer of intelligence.

  Fred Blake : Don't you believe in anything?

  Doctor Saunders : Nothing except myself and my experience. The world consist of me, my thoughts and my feelings. Everything else is mere fancy.

• Captain Nichols : This is Kim Ching's ain't it?

  Doctor Saunders : Yes.

  Captain Nichols : I ain't seen him in donkey's years. I thought I'd come in and have chin-wag with him.

• Fred Blake : Where do you want to go Doctor?

  Doctor Saunders : Oh, any Dutch island where I can get a ship to take me on my way.

  Fred Blake : Alright. I suppose that will be better than being cooped up only with a belching idiot.

• Eric Whittenson : I don't mind waiting. When you love anyone as I love Louise, a few months or a year, don't matter.

  Fred Blake : You love her like that?

  Eric Whittenson : Yes. Of course, you've only just seen her. You don't realize how beautiful she really is. And there's something else in her, too. Like a wathe, not quite at home in the haunts of men. It's so beautiful that I almost regret that she can't always keep it.

  Doctor Saunders : Why shouldn't she?

  Eric Whittenson : I feel she'll lose it when she becomes a wife and a mother. It's the soul of her that's so beautiful.

  Doctor Saunders : Don't be silly.

  Eric Whittenson : Why is it silly? It makes me ashamed that I won't got to her as pure as she'll come to me.

  Doctor Saunders : My dear boy, the most valuable thing I've learned from life is to regret nothing. Life is short. Nature is hostile and man is ridiculous.

• Doctor Saunders : Six pipes, Ah Kay, no more, no less.

• Doctor Saunders : Youth. You're just a stranger in this world, yet. Presently you will learn to do without what you cannot get and make the most of what you can. A little common sense. A little tolerance. A little good humor. And you can make yourself very comfortable on this planet.

• Doctor Saunders : Ah Kay, thanks for your loyalty; but, nature has devised more suffering for Captain Nichols than even your Oriental mind could ever conceive.