A Passage to India (1984)
Michael Culver: Major McBryde
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McBryde : [at the trial] Before we begin, I'd like to state what I believe to be a universal truth: the darker races are attracted to the fairer, but not vice-versa.
Advocate Amrit Rao : Even when the lady is LESS attractive than the gentleman?
[court breaks out in laughter]
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Richard Fielding : [on the glasses found on Aziz after the latter's arrest] If he had assaulted her he'd scarcely bring the evidence back with him.
McBryde : Doesn't surprise me.
Richard Fielding : I don't follow.
McBryde : When you think of crime, you think of English crime. The psychology's different here.
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McBryde : I've had 25 years' experience here. I have never known anything but disaster result when English and lndians attempt to be intimate.