The English Patient quotes
81 total quotesKatharine Clifton
Kirpal Singh (Kip)
Madox
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I'm going to suprise her. It's our anniversary. She's forgotten, of course. [to Madox]
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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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I have come to love that little tap of the fingernail against the syringe. Tap… Tap… Tap. [to Caravaggio]
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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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This is what I do. I do this every day. [to Hana]
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K is for Katherine. [to Hana]
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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)]
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This a different world is what I tell myself; a different life. And here I'm a different wife. [to Almásy]
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I long for the rain on my face. [to Hana]
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I can't do this anymore. [to Almásy]
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In case you're still wondering, This is called a supersternal notch. points to notch at base of throat [to Almasy]
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Look. See? Move that — and no more Bach. [to Hana after playing the piano]
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No! I was never a spy. [to Caravaggio]
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Yes is a comfort. Absolutely is not. [to Almásy]