The English Patient

"[to Almásy] So. I come across the hospital convoy, I'm looking for this stuff. This nurse, Mary, tells me about you and Hana, hiding in some monastery, in what you call it - retreat - how you'd come in from the desert and you were burned and you didn't remember your name, but you knew the words to every song that ever was and you had one possession - a copy of Herodotus and it was filled with letters and cuttings, and then I know it was you...I'd seen you writing in that book. At the embassy in Cairo, when I had thumbs, and you had a face. And a name."

"In Italy, there's always chickens, but no eggs. In Africa there's eggs, but never chickens. Who separated them?"

"[to Hana] Ask him. Ask your saint who he is. Ask him who he's killed."

"[to Almásy] There was a result to what you did!"

"[to Hana after playing the piano] Look. See? Move that - and no more Bach."

"[reading from Kipling to Almásy] 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."

"[to Almásy] 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 Hana] This is what I do. I do this every day."

"[to Almásy, et.al.] Why are you people so threatened by a woman?"

"[to Madox] I'm going to surprise her. It's our anniversary. She's forgotten, of course."

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

"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."

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

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

"In love, there are no boundaries."

"In memory, love lives forever."

"Ralph Fiennes - Count Laszlo de Almásy"

"Juliette Binoche - Hana"

"Willem Dafoe - David Caravaggio"

"Kristin Scott Thomas - Katharine Clifton"

"Naveen Andrews - Lt. Kirpal Singh (Kip)"

"Colin Firth - Geoffrey Clifton"

"Julian Wadham - Madox"

"Jürgen Prochnow - Major Muller"