Ingrid Bergman credited as playing...
Gladys Aylward
- Gladys Aylward: [handing a Chinese girl to her father] Here, the next time you want her feet bound, bind them yourself, not the woman, and you listen to her screams.
- Capt. Lin Nan: I believe in China as it can be.
- Jen-Ai: I love China the way it is.
- Capt. Lin Nan: Filthy? Ignorant? Backwards?
- Jen-Ai: No, but if your house is dirty you can clean it. One can make improvements, even in small quarters.
- Capt. Lin Nan: [after Jen-ai adopts a baby girl] Don't you see how stupid and pointless this is? What are you going to do with her?
- Jen-Ai: Call her Six-Pence I think. Do you like it?
- Capt. Lin Nan: I said what are you going to do with her? What do you know about babies?
- Jen-Ai: What is there to know? When they're dirty you wash them, when they're hungry you feed them.
- Gladys Aylward: Yang says everyone in China wishes you the five happinesses: wealth, longevity, good health, virtue... and
- Jeannie Lawson: And a peaceful death in old age, yes.
- Gladys Aylward: But he didn't mention anymore. What is the sixth happiness?
- Jeannie Lawson: That you must find out for yourself. Each person must find out in his heart what the sixth happiness is.
- [last lines]
- Jen-Ai: Dr. Robinson, do you remember me? My name used to be Gladys Aylward.
- Dr. Robinson: Yes, I remember you. Gladys Aylward, who wasn't qualified to come to China. Will you come with us to our children's village? I can think of no one who would be more valuable.
- Jen-Ai: Thank you, but I'm going back to Yang Cheng. I'm going home.
- Jen-Ai: I am not attractive in that way.
- Capt. Lin Nan: Jen-Ai, don't you know you're beautiful?
- Jen-Ai: Once in her life, every woman should have that said to her. I thank you for being the one who said it to me.
- [first lines]
- Gladys Aylward: My name is Gladys Aylward. I've written to the head of the missionary society. His reply stated that he'd see me if I ever came to London. If he's busy, I can wait.
- Capt. Lin Nan: It is his foot inspector who is beautiful
- Gladys Aylward: You're confusing me.
- The Mandarin: Many people are confused these days. Let us have dinner and wine and music and discuss it further.
- Sir Francis Jamison: At least you have a destination. That's something.
- Gladys Aylward: Its more than enough. I might not be leaving today if it was not for you.
- Sir Francis Jamison: That is a thought that gives me no peace of mind.
- Miss Thompson: The wages are 19 shillings a week. Thursday and every second Sunday off, from 10 till 10.
- Gladys Aylward: That'll be fine. Thank you.
- Miss Thompson: I should think so. Please remember there are 50 girls for every job in London.
- Gladys Aylward: I thought I was going to make my own tea and save some money.
- Miss Thompson: Boil everything, I told her. Foreigners, being what they are.
- Sir Francis Jamison: Very sensible. Very English.
- Gladys Aylward: I'm not that kind of machinery. I'm a missionary. I'm going to China as a missionary - with a Bible.
- [singing]
- Gladys Aylward: Onward Christian Soldiers, Marching as to war...
- Gladys Aylward: Yang, I've tried to learn Chinese from a book...
- Yang: Book don't know! I teach. We point things, then I tell you.
- Gladys Aylward: Are those girls his daughters?
- Yang: Not exactly daughters. More like wives. But, not exactly wives.
- Jeannie Lawson: A community bed. You'll find them in every inn in north China. We've got lots of rooms, but, when winter comes, this is the bed everybody will be in.
- Gladys Aylward: You mean together?
- Jeannie Lawson: Thirty, forty, fifty at a time. All fully clothed and ignoring each other. It gets cold here. You'll find out.
- Gladys Aylward: What do you think he wants?
- Yang: Maybe he make us close down. Maybe this Last Supper like Bible say.
- Yang: Mandarin say, Captain Lin ask him to help you. So, he offer you job on his staff: foot inspector.
- Gladys Aylward: Foot inspector?
- Yang: Foot inspector will tour district, see people no more bind feet of female children, to make small. If female under 30, unbind.
- Gladys Aylward: Well, I certainly approve of that.
- Gladys Aylward: [voice over] My happinesses were too many to count. The happiness of being one of them, of being call by my new name: Jen-Ai - the one who loves people, of learning to speak their language, of being able to talk to the people in the marketplace, to my neighbors in the fields, and my friends in every village in the mountains, the happiness of watching the seasons turn and change from autumn to winter, from winter to spring, the happiness of beginning new things that every year brought a harvest of inner happiness...
- Yang: Mandarin agree to what you ask and forgive you for the way you speak to him - this time. In a world full of frightened people, he likes courage wherever he find it - even in a rude and angry woman.
- Gladys Aylward: I am the Mandarin's servant.
- Gladys Aylward: You have to interfere with what is wrong if you hope to make it right.
- The Mandarin: But that is what I tell them! And what are you guilty, I ask, that you object to her interfering?
- Gladys Aylward: Then, you don't object?
- The Mandarin: Certainly not. Bother the officials all you wish. Embarrass them. Ask them questions. Badger them. But, leave the women of my household alone!
- Gladys Aylward: Oh.
- The Mandarin: Exactly. Do not tell them that no human being should be subject to the will of another. And did you not tell them that to obey any man unquestioningly was old fashioned? And have you not been teaching them to read? Where will it end?
