The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel—Quotes
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Douglas Ainslie: “Would it help if I apologized again?”
-Jean Ainslie: “No, but you can try it again anyway.”
“Mom, I want to look after you.”
-Evelyn: “That’s what Dad did, but look where it got me.”
“At my age, I don’t plan that far ahead. I don’t even buy green bananas.”
“If I can’t pronounce it, I don’t eat it.”
Sonny: “This is a building of the utmost character. Which means everything may not function exactly as you expect.”
Regarding the picture of the hotel in the brochure: “You photo-shopped it!”
-“I have offered a vision of the future.” – Sonny
Sonny regarding a refund: “I will give it to you straight away, in three months.”
Sonny regarding a sick man lying on the ground: “Let me through please—my brother is a doctor.”
“Can there be anywhere else in the world that is such an assault on the senses?”
Evelyn: “It’s like a wave. Resist and you’ll be knocked over. Dive into it and you’ll come out the other side.”
The Ainslie’s regarding his pending venture into the city: “You want to come with me?”
-“I’m your wife. Have we met?”
The doctor regarding Muriel’s surgery: “How does it feel?”
-Muriel: “They must’ve got lucky.”
-Dr.: “It’s strange…the more operations they do, the luckier they get.”
Graham: “Why won’t you go out Mrs. Ainslie? There’s all life here. There’s so much to see.”
Sonny: “I have a dream to outsource old age. There are lots of places besides Britain that don’t like the old age, too.”
Sonny and his girlfriend, Sunaina: “Do you love me, Sonny?
-Sonny: “My feelings for you cannot be reduced to a single word.”
-Sunaina: “It’s a nice word. People like to hear it.”
Norman: “I just want to feel again. I want to feel needed for one night.”
Norman: “Can we start over? I’m not charming and I’m not good at repartee. My name is Norman and I’m lonely.”
Medical staff to Muriel regarding a lower-caste cleaning girl: “She wants to thank you for your kindness.
-Muriel: “I haven’t been kind.”
-Medical staff: “You are the only one who acknowledges her.”
Evelyn: “One wants to trust in general, but you never really know.”
Regarding what was striking and appealing about India: “The way people see life as a privilege and not as a right.”
Jean Ainslie to Douglas Ainslie: “Yes, well, when I want your opinion, I’ll give it to you.”
Evelyn about another couple’s relationship: “They had no secrets from each other. None. That’s right, isn’t it? That’s right. Makes me realize how much I wronged Hugh.”
Sonny: “This is a disaster! Then we must treat it exactly like a triumph. The only problem is I have never known a triumph—only disaster.”
Graham: “All that time I thought I’d sentenced him to a life of shame, but I was the one in prison.”
Sonny and his mom: “Come back with me to Delhi, your life will be so much better, so much easier.”
-Sonny: “Not easier, mommy G… smaller.”
Madge: “Single by choice—just not my choice.”
Sonny: “It’s because I love her that I cannot say it. She could do so much better than me.”
“You see things as they are, and not as you wish them to be.”
Sonny to his Sunaina: “No more will I believe that I am not worthy, but only by loving you will I become so.”
Douglas Ainslie: “Funny, they call this rush hour and yet nothing actually moves.”
Sonny: “Nothing happens unless first we dream.”
Sonny’s mom: “I may not have a right to judge, but I have a mother’s right to worry.”
Muriel: “We haven’t talked much, you and I.”
-Evelyn: “My loss, apparently.”
Muriel to Sonny: “If I can stand o my own two feet, I’m sure you can too.”
“Things haven’t quite worked out as I’d planned.”
-“Most things never do, but then, that’s usually the good stuff.”
Evelyn: “The only real failure is the failure to try. And the only real success is to cope with disappointment as we must.”
Evelyn: “Can we be blamed for feeling we are too old to change? Too scared of disappointment to start again?”
Evelyn: “It’s also true that the person who wishes nothing, does nothing, has nothing.”
Evelyn: “Perhaps what we fear is that it will be the same, so we must celebrate the changes.”
Evelyn: “Everything will be alright in the end, so, if it’s not alright, trust me, it’s not the end.”
-Compiled by Stacey Tuttle-