Count Laszlo de Almásy I think I was a pilot.
Most-quoted character in The English Patient (1996): in 43 of its 82 quotes
Most scenes with: Katharine Clifton (8), Madox (2)
I once traveled with a guide who was taking me to Faya. He didn't speak for nine hours. At the end of it he pointed to the horizon and said, Faya! That was a good day. [to Katharine]
More lines from Count Laszlo de Almásy
29 quotes Count Laszlo de Almásy Count Laszlo de Almásy A very… plum… plum.
Count Laszlo de Almásy Its probably none of my business— your wife… do you think it is appropriate to leave her?
Count Laszlo de Almásy There's really no need. This is just a scrapbook. They are too good. I should feel obliged. Thank you. [to Katharine]
Count Laszlo de Almásy We planned badly. [to Katharine]
Count Laszlo de Almásy In a few minutes there'll be no stars— the air is filling with sand. [to Katharine]
Count Laszlo de Almásy Let me tell you about winds. [to Katharine]
Count Laszlo de Almásy Could I ask you, please, to paste you paintings into my book? I should like to have them. I *should be honored. [to Katharine]
Count Laszlo de Almásy Mrs. Clifton. . . I believe you still have my book. [to Katharine]
Count Laszlo de Almásy K at dawn — silhouetted.
Count Laszlo de Almásy My God… they're swimming. Swimming. [to himself in Cave of Swimmers]
Count Laszlo de Almásy I can still taste you. I try to write with your taste in my mouth. [to Katharine]
Count Laszlo de Almásy Swoon, I'll catch you. [to Katharine]
Count Laszlo de Almásy Maddox knows I think— he keeps talking about Anna Karenina— I think it's his idea of a man to man chat… well it's my idea of a man to man chat. [to Katharine]
Count Laszlo de Almásy I long for the rain on my face. [to Hana]
Count Laszlo de Almásy I'm not agreeing. Don't think I'm agreeing, because I'm not. [to Katharine]
Count Laszlo de Almásy Katherine? My God, Katherine what are you doing here?
Count Laszlo de Almásy Thousands of people did die. Just different people. [to Caravaggio]
Count Laszlo de Almásy No! I was never a spy. [to Caravaggio]
Count Laszlo de Almásy The International Sand Club: misfits, buggers, fascists, and fools— God bless us every one. Ooops! mustn't say international — dirty word, filthy word.
Count Laszlo de Almásy Every night I cut out my heart. But in the morning it was full again. [to Katharine]
Count Laszlo de Almásy K is for Katherine. [to Hana]
Count Laszlo de Almásy In that case I suppose we can't charge. [to Hana]
Count Laszlo de Almásy Condensed milk - one of the truly great inventions. [to Hana]
Count Laszlo de Almásy Hana was just telling me that you were indifferent. . . to her cooking. [to Kip]
Count Laszlo de Almásy I have come to love that little tap of the fingernail against the syringe. Tap… Tap… Tap. [to Caravaggio]
Count Laszlo de Almásy It wouldn't be make believe if you believed in me. [Almásy singing the tune It's Only a Paper Moon (by Harold Arlen, Billy Rose, and E. Y. Harburg)]
Count Laszlo de Almásy Read to me will you? Read me to sleep. [to Hana]
Count Laszlo de Almásy [to Katherine]
Swoon, They'll catch you.
Scenes with Count Laszlo de Almásy
13 scenes
Shall we be all right?
Almásy Yes. Yes. —Absolutely.
Oh dear.
You get to the morning and the poison leaks away, doesn't it? Black nights. I thought I would kill you.
Almásy You can't kill me. I died years ago.
No, I can't kill you now.
Why did you hate me?
Almásy What?
Don't you know you drove everybody mad?
Almásy Shh, don't talk.
You speak so many bloody languages and you never wanted to talk.
Almásy You're wearing the thimble.
Of course, you idiot. I always wear it; I've always worn it... I've always loved you.
I'll probably marry him.
Almásy Really? That's sudden.
My mother always told me I would summon my husband by playing the piano.
Almásy There's also a plant - I've never seen it but I'm told you can cut a piece the size of a heart from this plant and the next day it will be filled with a delicious liquid.
Find that plant. Cut out its heart.
Geoffrey's not in Cairo. He's not actually a buffoon. The plane wasn't a wedding present. It belongs to the British Government. They want aerial maps of the whole of North Africa. So I think he's in Ethiopia. In case you were counting on his sudden appearance.
Almásy And the marriage. . . is that a fiction?
No, the marriage isn't a fiction.
Almásy When were you most happy?
Now.
Almásy When were you least happy?
Now.
Almásy What do you love?
What do I love?
Almásy Say everything.
Water—fish in it—and hedgehogs—I love hedgehogs. Marmite—I'm addicted, and baths, but not with other people! Islands—and your handwriting. I could go on all day.
Almásy Go on all day.
My husband.
Almásy And what do you hate most?
A lie. And what do you hate most?
Almásy Ownership—or being owned. When you leave, you should forget me.
Almásy Szerelem means love. And the story, well, there's this Hungarian count. He's a wanderer. He's a fool. And for years he's on some kind of a quest for... who knows what. And then one day, he falls under the spell of a mysterious English woman. A harpy, who beats him, and hits him, he he becomes her slave, and he sews her clothes, and worships—Stop it! Stop it! You're always beating me!
Bastard! You bastard, I believed you! You should be my slave.
Almásy This... this, the hollow at the base of a woman's throat, does it have an official name?
Good God, man, pull yourself together.
Almásy I just wanted you to know— I'm not missing you yet.
You will...you will.
Almásy You're wearing the thimble.
Of course. You idiot. I always wear it. I've always worn it. I've always loved you.
Almásy There is no God... but I hope someone looks after you.
Just in case you're interested, it's called the suprasternal notch. Come and visit us in Dorset when all this nonsense is over. [Heads away but turns back]
You'll never come to Dorset.
Officer
May I see your papers sir?
Almásy I'm sorry, I'm not making sense— forgive me— I, I'm—I've been walking, and I've-there's a woman badly injured at the Gilf Kebir,—the Cave of Swimmers. I'm a member of the Royal Geographical Society.
Officer
Could you spell your name sir?
Almásy I have been walking for three days, I do not want to spell my name!
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