The English Patient quotes
81 total quotesKatharine Clifton
Kirpal Singh (Kip)
Madox
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There's really no need. This is just a scrapbook. They are too good. I should feel obliged. Thank you. [to Katharine]
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I've been thinking—how does someone like you decide to come to the desert? [to Almásy]
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Its probably none of my business— your wife… do you think it is appropriate to leave her?
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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]
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You speak so many bloody languages, and you never want to talk.[to Almásy]
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In that case I suppose we can't charge. [to Hana]
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Do you think you are the only one who feels anything? Is that what you think? [to Almásy]
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I thought this is what Almasy said?
(?) There's a war. Where you come from becomes important.
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Why? I hate that idea.
(?) It's ghastly. It's a witchhunt. Anyone remotely foreign is suddenly a spy.
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K is for Katherine. [to Hana]
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A very… plum… plum.
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Read to me will you? Read me to sleep. [to Hana]
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We planned badly. [to Katharine]
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I have come to love that little tap of the fingernail against the syringe. Tap… Tap… Tap. [to Caravaggio]
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A woman should never learn to sew, and if she can she shouldn't admit to it. [to Almásy]