The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Quotes

Norman Cousins: [eulogizing]His relationship with all his pupils was founded on respect. We respected him, and he respected that.

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Graham Dashwood: Good evening, Mrs. Ainslie. You have a good day? What did you get up to?
Jean: Well, I started in my bedroom where I spent a happy couple of hours giving all the cockroaches names. And then after lunch, that will long have a place in my heartburn, I came out here and stared blindly at a book waiting for someone - anyone - to rescue me. And how glad I am it was you.

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Sonny: [showing around a potential investor]Please can you describe to us in as much detail as you desire your experience of the ambiance and atmosphere of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.
Muriel: Words fail me.
Sonny: Ah, the English wit we love so greatly.
Sonny: [whisking his visitor away]See, the wheel is spinning but the hamster is dead.

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Sonny: You see? Profound satisfaction. Such is the inevitable result of a prolonged stay at the Marigold Hotel. To create a home for the elderly so wonderful that they will simply refuse to die. Stare death in the face and say... What are those men doing?

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Evelyn: Can there be anywhere else in the world that is such an assault on the senses? Those who know the country of old just go about their business. But nothing can prepare the uninitiated for this riot of noise and color. For the heat, the motion; the perpetual teeming crowds.

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Sonny: Your bedroom.
Madge Hardcastle: Where?
Sonny: Here. In here.
Madge Hardcastle: My dear man, rooms have doors. What you're showing me here is an alcove.

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Jean: As long as such a fall happens to occur right next to the panic button.

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Sonny: [Running up the stairs of Sunaina's workplace shouting - ]Sunaina! Sunaina! Sunaina! Sunaina!
Sunaina's Brother: Hey, what's going on?
Sonny: [Bent over panting and out of breath from running up the stairs. Holds up one finger to motion to please wait]
Sunaina's Brother: Sonny?
Sonny: [Panting]I need to see Sunaina.
Sunaina's Brother: Her shift's not over. And when it is, she doesn't want to see you.
Sonny: Jay. You - You are the son my mother wished I was. An intelligent man with a strong head for business. You see things as they are and not as you wish them to be. So, fuck off out of my way! [Jay crosses his arms]
Sonny: Or, you can give her a message. Tell her from me what I should have told her the day we met. What I will announce to anyone who asks and many who do not.
Sunaina: [Interjects from around the corner]Including your mother?
Sunaina's Brother: [Asks Sonny incorrectly]Including my mother?
Sunaina: [Correcting Jay]His mother.
Sunaina's Brother: Your mother.
Sonny: I will tell every mother in the land.
Sunaina: [Asking Sonny]What will you tell them?
Sunaina's Brother: [Also asking Sonny]What will you tell them?
Sonny: The only thing that matters in this world. That I love you and always will. And by you I mean Sunaina, Jay, not you. Although if you are to be my brother-in-law, I hope we can become better friends.
Sunaina: [Speaking to Jay]Why is he only saying this now?
Sunaina's Brother: [Speaking to Sunaina]You ask him.
Sunaina: [Comes to the stairs bannister and looks Sonny in the eye]Why are you only saying this now?
Sonny: Because, Sunaina... love of my life, no more will I believe that I'm not worthy. For only by loving you as you deserve will I become so.

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Madge's Son-in-Law: How many husbands have you had?
Madge Hardcastle: Including my own?

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