Almásy: I am a just a bit of toast, my friend.
Katharine Clifton: I wanted to meet the man who could write such a long paper with so few adjectives.
Hana: [crying, her face a frozen mask] I must be a curse. Anybody who loves me, anybody who gets close to me... or I must be cursed. Which is it?
Almásy: Could I have a cigarette? Hana: [laughing] Are you crazy? Almásy: Why... why are you so determined to keep me alive? Hana: Because I'm a nurse.
Katharine Clifton: This - what is this? Almásy: It's a folk song. Katharine Clifton: Arabic. Almásy: No, no. It's Hungarian. My daijka sang it to me when I was a child growing up in Budapest. Katharine Clifton: It's beautiful. What's it about? Alm�...
Almásy: When were you most happy? Katharine Clifton: Now. Almásy: And when were you least happy? Katharine Clifton: Now.
Caravaggio: In Italy, you get chickens, but no eggs. In Africa there were always eggs, but... never chickens. Who separated them?
[Asked what he hates most] Almásy: Ownership. I hate being owned.
Almásy: New lovers are nervous and tender, but smash everything. For the heart is an organ of fire.
Almásy: Let me tell you about winds. There is a, a whirlwind from southern Morrocco, the aajej, against which the fellahin defend themselves with knives. And there is the... the ghibli, from Tunis... Katharine Clifton: [giggling] The "ghibli"? Almá...
Caravaggio: You're in love with him, aren't you? Your poor patient. You think he's a saint because of the way he looks? I don't think he is. Hana: I'm not in love with him. I'm in love with ghosts. So is he, he's in love with ghosts.
Muller: [interrogating Caravaggio] Look here, for every name you give me, I'll let you keep a finger. You give me something, and you'll keep something. Caravaggio: Don't cut me. Muller: Are thumbs fingers? [to Lieutenant] Muller: Ist ein Daumen ein F...
Almásy: I fear Madox knows about us, he keeps mentioning Anna Karenina
Almásy: Swoon, I'll catch you.
Katharine Clifton: I'm impressed you can sew. Almásy: Good. Katharine Clifton: You sew very badly. Almásy: Well, you don't sew at all. Katharine Clifton: A woman should never learn to sew, and if she can she shouldn't admit to it.
Katharine Clifton: Do you think you are the only one who feels anything?
Almásy: [being carried up the stairs] There was a Prince, who was dying, and he was carried up the tower at Pisa so he could die with a view of the Tuscan Hills. Am I that Prince? Hana: [laughs] Because you're leaning? No, you're just on an angle. Y...
Katharine Clifton: [dancing] Why did you follow me yesterday? Almásy: I'm sorry, what? Katharine Clifton: After the market, you followed me to the hotel. Almásy: I was concerned. A woman in that part of Cairo, a European woman, I felt obliged to. K...
