"Quotes"

Stanford 2022-03-15 09:01:11

"I thought the tall one was terribly handsome."


"Life is like a carpet, we weave in and out to make a pattern."


"In India, I make a leger of the prisoners. → We're all prisoners."


" I would like to taste a mango."


"How do you like your new Scottish costumes?

They're very scratchy.

Everything in Scotland is scratchy."


"I'm so lonely. Everyone I've really loved has died and I just go on and on."


"It's an impossible position. No one really knows what it's like to be Queen."


"You are the most special person in my whole life, even more special than my wife."


"She looks splendid . → You can not actually see her.”


"He's using his position for his own gain! → How does that make him any different from you?"


"I'm cantankerous, boring, greedy, fat, ill tempered, a time selfish myopic, both metaphorically and literally, I am perhaps , disagreeably attracted to power. But I'm anything but insane."


"You have been a very good friend. But you must leave me.

I'm your servant. As long as I shall live I shall be by your side. Every single day. Nothing. Nothing will stop me.

Abdul, I am your Queen.

Your Majesty, I'm your Munshi and I will never leave you."


"When I was young, I used to long for death. Now , when there's nothing to live for, I cling to life with every breath. I am scared, Abdul.”


"Goodbye, my Queen. → Goodbye, take care, my son, sweet son."

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Extended Reading
  • Emilie 2022-03-23 09:03:26

    The British are generous! This year, it is still a true story to bring out the friendship between the Queen and Indian Muslim servants.

  • Virginia 2022-03-10 08:01:26

    Humorous and witty, time flies. It was embarrassing several times. I think it's pretty. But, for this abudul, I think, a little, not plump.

Victoria & Abdul quotes

  • Sir Henry Ponsonby: Breakfast with the Royal Princes of Belgium. 11:00, an audience with the Sultan of Dubai, where Her Majesty will be presented with the Diamond of Oojay. Garden party where Her Majesty will receive Oscar II, King of Sweden and Norway, again, and Queen Liliuokalani.

    Queen Victoria: Who on Earth is she?

    Sir Henry Ponsonby: A monarch and, uh, sole Queen Regnant of the Kingdom of Hawaii, Your Majesty. Uh, she has composed a song for you on the ukulele. Uh, but we have managed to put her off. Then you will eat with the Prime Minister and at 7:00, the banquet in the state dining room.

    Dr. Reid: And your movements, Your Majesty?

    Queen Victoria: Nothing to speak of, Dr. Reid.

    Dr. Reid: Not even during the day?

    Queen Victoria: We last moved on Sunday evening.

    Dr. Reid: I fear the celebratory dinners are taking their toll, Your Majesty. Might I suggest some Benger's mixture?

    Queen Victoria: I refuse to eat Benger's. It's baby food.

    Dr. Reid: But it is imperative, Your Majesty, that the Royal Colon receives a little roughage.

    Queen Victoria: Anything else?

    Sir Henry Ponsonby: Um, now, was Your Majesty pleased with the mohur?

    Queen Victoria: What?

    Sir Henry Ponsonby: With the mohur, the ceremonial coin. Uh, presented by the two Indian servants.

    Queen Victoria: I thought the tall one was terribly handsome.

  • [as Queen Victoria reaches for her stamp, Abdul grabs it for her instead]

    Queen Victoria: Thank you, Mr...

    Abdul Karim: Abdul. Abdul Karim.

    [Queen Victoria continues to write her letters]

    Abdul Karim: I am always writing.

    [Queen Victoria looks at him]

    Abdul Karim: In India, I'm writing, a-all day, every day.

    Queen Victoria: So in India, you are not a servant?

    Abdul Karim: No. In India, I'm writing in my very big book.

    Queen Victoria: You're writing a book?

    Abdul Karim: Yes. I'm writing every name, who they are, what they have done. This is my life. Every day, I'm writing, from morning to night.

    Queen Victoria: And this is fiction?

    Abdul Karim: No. It is the very truth.

    Queen Victoria: I don't understand. If you are an author, why are you here, uh, presenting me with the m... uh, with the m...

    Abdul Karim: Mo-Mohur.

    [Queen Victoria nods]

    Abdul Karim: It is my humble privilege to serve Her Majesty.

    [Queen Victoria smiles, then continues to write her letters]

    Abdul Karim: I was the one who chose your carpets.

    Queen Victoria: Carpets?

    Abdul Karim: Yes. The Viceroy asked Mr. Tyler, sir, but actually, it was me. Y-you have to have a very good eye for the carpets. Uh, like...

    [walks to the carpet in front of the desk]

    Abdul Karim: This is a very nice one, for example. Very, very tight knots. The art of carpets, uh, came to India from Persia with the great Emperor Akbar. The s-skill of a carpet is to bring all the different kinds of threads together and weave something we can all stand on.

    Queen Victoria: You seem to know a great deal about it.

    Abdul Karim: My family were carpet makers, but now I write in the book. Life is like a carpet. We weave in and out to make a pattern.

    Queen Victoria: That is a very beautiful image.

    Abdul Karim: Look. Here is the bird of freedom, caught forever in the design.

    Queen Victoria: So, in India, you are a poet?

    Abdul Karim: No. In India, I make a ledger of the prisoners.

    Queen Victoria: We are all prisoners, Mr. Karim.