Lady Sarah Robertson Quotes in 55 Days at Peking (1963)

Lady Sarah Robertson: [Unannounced, entering her husband's study] I'm sorry, Arthur. Are you busy?

Sir Arthur Robertson: Of course I am. I *always* am.

Lady Sarah Robertson: Busier than usual? Or just busy?

Sir Arthur Robertson: Both.

Lady Sarah Robertson: Do you remember what Napoleon said about China?

Sir Arthur Robertson: I never forget it: "Let China sleep. For when she awakens, the world will tremble."

Lady Sarah Robertson: He did say an awful lot, didn't he?

Lady Sarah Robertson: Do you think that if a child dies in a foreign place without ever having seen home that its soul doesn't rest? I think it goes into limbo - an enormous, empty Chinese limbo. And it wanders there, lost and crying...