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] 

• 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.

• McBryde : I've had 25 years' experience here. I have never known anything but disaster result when English and lndians attempt to be intimate.