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The English Patient

The English Patient quotes

81 total quotes

Count Laszlo de Almásy
David Caravaggio
Geoffrey Clifton
Hana
Katharine Clifton
Kirpal Singh (Kip)
Madox
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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 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 Am I 'K' in your book? I think I must be. [to Almásy]
View Quote You speak so many bloody languages, and you never want to talk.[to Almásy]
View Quote I can't do this anymore. [to Almásy]
View Quote Do you think you are the only one who feels anything? Is that what you think? [to Almásy]
View Quote Why did you hate me? Don't you know you drove everybody mad? [to Almásy]
View Quote In Italy, there's always chickens, but no eggs. In Africa there's eggs, but never chickens. Who separated them?
View Quote Ask him. Ask your saint who he is. Ask him who he's killed. [to Hana]
View Quote There was a result to what you did! [to Almásy]
View Quote Look. See? Move that — and no more Bach. [to Hana after playing the piano]
View Quote It's still there, the cannon, outside the museum. It was made of metal cups and bowls taken from every household in the city as tax, then melted down. Then later they fired the cannon at my people - comma - The natives - full stop. [reading from w:Herodotus to Almásy]
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]
View Quote This is what I do. I do this every day. [to Hana]
View Quote Why are you people so threatened by a woman? [to Almásy, et.al.]