English Patient

Famous quotes containing the words english and/or patient:

“The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.”
—Thomas Beecham (1879–1961)

“Oh that my Pow’r to Saving were confin’d:
Why am I forc’d, like Heav’n, against my mind,
To make Examples of another Kind?
Must I at length the Sword of Justice draw?
Oh curst Effects of necessary Law!
How ill my Fear they by my Mercy scan,
Beware the Fury of a Patient Man.”
—John Dryden (1631–1700)