Jones: Between war and women, the General's got me by the nuts.

- Walter Connolly (as Jones) in The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933)

Megan Davis: I want you to think of all those things and then forgive her.

- Barbara Stanwyck (as Megan Davis) in The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933)

Megan Davis: You can always do so much more with mercy than you can with murder. Why don't you give her another chance?

- Barbara Stanwyck (as Megan Davis) in The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933)

General Yen: There has never been a people more purely artist, and therefore more purely lover, than the Chinese.

- Nils Asther (as General Yen) in The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933)