Broken Blossoms (1936)

Edith Sharpe: Mrs. Reed

Quotes 

• Mrs. Reed : I wish I knew what it all meant.

  Mr. Reed : Oh, the usual Buddhist rigmarole: do unto others as you would be done by. Take the western world a message of peace. All that nonsense.

  Mrs. Reed : It doesn't sound like nonsense to me.

  Mr. Reed : Well, it is, old thing, from a practical point of view. You can't have a Chink barging off to Europe to convert the heathen whites. It really isn't done.