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Quotes from the movie The English Patient
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In Italy, there's always chickens, but no eggs. In Africa there's eggs, but never chickens. Who separated them?
David Caravaggio


Ask him. Ask your saint who he is. Ask him who he's killed.
David Caravaggio


There was a result to what you did!
David Caravaggio


Look. See? Move that ó and no more Bach.
Kirpal Singh


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.
Kirpal Singh


What I really object to, Uncle, is your finishing all my condensed milk óand the message everywhere in your book - however slowly I read it - that the best destiny for India is to be ruled by the British.
Kirpal Singh


This is what I do. I do this every day.
Kirpal Singh


Why are you people so threatened by a woman?
Geoffrey Clifton


I'm going to suprise her. It's our anniversary. She's forgotten, of course.
Geoffrey Clifton


In case you're still wondering, This is called a supersternal notch. points to notch at base of throat
Madox


I have to teach myself not to read too much into everything. It comes from too long having to read so much into hardly anything at all.
Madox


(?) I apologize if I appear abrupt. I am rusty at social graces.
Madox


(?) There's a war. Where you come from becomes important.
Madox


(?) It's ghastly. It's a witchhunt. Anyone remotely foreign is suddenly a spy.
Madox


(?) We didn't care about countries did we? Brits, Arabs, Hungarians, Germans. None of that mattered, did it? It was something finer than that.
Madox


How do you explainÖ to someone who's never been hereÖ feelings that seem quite wrong.
Man in desert party


How do you know you're not German if you don't remember anything?
British officer