Katrin Koerber Fane: [after Townsend impulsively kisses Katrin] How could you? Jack Townsend: I could. - George Brent in The Painted Veil (1934)

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Katrin Koerber Fane: [to Fane] Right now you and I are closer than we ever were... and further apart. - Greta Garbo in The Painted Veil (1934)

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Katrin Koerber Fane: [to Townsend] You seem to be like a Chinese garden fountain... everywhere one turns. - Greta Garbo in The Painted Veil (1934)

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Katrin Koerber Fane: I like China very much. I like America too. I like all the places I haven't been. - Greta Garbo in The Painted Veil (1934)

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Katrin Koerber Fane: The water has to boil? Dr. Walter Fane: They say the longer you watch it, the longer it takes. - Herbert Marshall in The Painted Veil (1934)

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Deputy Commissioner Waddington: [Offering scotch whiskey to Fane] Stay full of this. Leaves no room for the cholera. - Forrester Harvey in The Painted Veil (1934)

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Jack Townsend: [to Katrin] I think you're the most curious curio in all China. - George Brent in The Painted Veil (1934)

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Jack Townsend: [to Katrin] Why can't we be unhappy together? - George Brent in The Painted Veil (1934)

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