Clive of India (1935)

Ronald Colman: Robert Clive

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• Margaret Maskelyne : You can't go! I've given my life for India! It's taken one of my children! He's dead... dead, and for what?

  Robert Clive : Meg - you musntn't excite yourself. Remember your state.

  Margaret Maskelyne : What does that matter? What are children to you? You talk of love and one breath of the word 'India' and away it goes!

  Robert Clive : Meg, I must keep faith!

• Robert Clive : India should be a sacred trust. And now it's as though I'd never been there.

  Gov. Pigot : The result is chaos! The Council is alarmed. With one accord they turn to you...

• Robert Clive : What I have done I have done for India, and for my country, to the best of my ability. By this vote tonight, you can take my wealth, my honour, my reputation, just as India has already taken from me the thing I hold most dear.