The English Patient quotes

View Quote My God… they're swimming. Swimming. [to himself in Cave of Swimmers]

View Quote No! I was never a spy. [to Caravaggio]

View Quote Read to me will you? Read me to sleep. [to Hana]

View Quote So. I come across the hospital convoy, I'm looking for this stuff. This nurse, Mary, tells me about you and Hana, hiding in some monastery, in what you call it — retreat - how you'd come in from the desert and you were burned and you didn't remember your name, but you knew the words to every song that ever was and you had one possession - a copy of w:Herodotus and it was filled with letters and cuttings, and then I know it was you. . . I'd seen you writing in that book. At the embassy in Cairo, when I had thumbs, and you had a face. And a name. [to Almásy]

View Quote Swoon, I'll catch you. [to Katharine]

View Quote The International Sand Club: misfits, buggers, fascists, and fools— God bless us every one. Ooops! mustn't say international — dirty word, filthy word.

View Quote The neck of K can never [be something] not in my mind. and K's clothes always at ease on her. Does he notice? What is the significance of Betrayal? Does K bother with a moral Labyrinth - K's debate - does she debate? [reading from notes she found in Almásy's book]

View Quote There was a result to what you did! [to Almásy]

View Quote There's really no need. This is just a scrapbook. They are too good. I should feel obliged. Thank you. [to Katharine]

View Quote This a different world is what I tell myself; a different life. And here I'm a different wife. [to Almásy]

View Quote This is not very good is it? [to Almásy]

View Quote This is what I do. I do this every day. [to Hana]

View Quote Thousands of people did die. Just different people. [to Caravaggio]

View Quote We planned badly. [to Katharine]

View Quote What I really object to, Uncle, is your finishing all my condensed milk —and the message everywhere in your book - however slowly I read it - that the best destiny for India is to be ruled by the British. [to Almásy]