Quotes from the Movie The English Patient

It's raining.

Hana

Betrayals during war are childlike compared with our betrayals during peace. New lovers are nervous and tender, but smash everything. For the heart is an organ of fire. For the heart is an organ of fireó I love that. I believe that.

Hana

I've been thinkingóhow does someone like you decide to come to the desert?

Katharine Clifton

And that would be unconscionable, I suppose, to feel any obligation? Yes. Of course it would.

Katharine Clifton

I'm not one of the walking wounded. It's only one night. Besides, if I remain it's the most effective method of persuading my husband to abandon whatever he's doing and come and rescue us.

Katharine Clifton

This is not very good is it?

Katharine Clifton

Am I a terrible coward to ask how much water we have?

Katharine Clifton

Yes is a comfort. Absolutely is not.

Katharine Clifton

You still have sand in your hair.

Katharine Clifton

A woman should never learn to sew, and if she can she shouldn't admit to it.

Katharine Clifton

This a different world is what I tell myself; a different life. And here I'm a different wife.

Katharine Clifton

I don't care to bargain.

Katharine Clifton

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?

Katharine Clifton

Am I 'K' in your book? I think I must be.

Katharine Clifton

You speak so many bloody languages, and you never want to talk

Katharine Clifton