Quote by Joe Queenan Download Open image ““The problem with the English Patient is that to enjoy it, you have to be either English or patient.”” — Joe Queenan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“ "Still, not to be English is hardly regarded as a fatal deficiency even by the English, though grave enough to warrant sympathy.” — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months. — Kristin Scott Thomas Copy Share Image
“Every problem of medicine is a problem of language, and this operation was a malapropism.” — William S. Wilson Copy Share Image
“english is a language which is made up of fun if we dint know english we will miss the fun” — Rubab Abdullah Copy Share Image
“The English intellect is sound, so far as it goes,but it has one grave defect--it is always cautious in the wrong place.” — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
“I want to have the whole English experience. High tea, supervising manifestations, taking the waters, going to Harrods, discussing possible international conspiracies.” — Daniel O'Malley Copy Share Image
“My scary strange English shall only be counted as my English problem.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
“...books, ingeniously coupled with music and alcohol, enabled the Irish to transcend reality.” — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
As was the case in Requiem for a Dream, Pollock, A Beautiful Mind, House of Sand and Fog, The Hulk and Dark Water, Connelly's… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
Books did not need to be beautiful back in the Fifties, because nothing else was beautiful back then. Books were simply there: you read… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
Purists maintain that if you go to a baseball game you will almost always see something you have never seen before. Unfortunately, it usually… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
My books have been part of my life forever. They have been good soldiers, boon companions. Every book has survived numerous purges over the… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
Great writers say things that are so beautiful, the very act of repeating them makes life itself more beautiful. — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
A friend once told me that the real message Bram Stoker sought to convey in 'Dracula' is that a human being needs to live… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
Every life, even the best ones, ends in sadness. Books hold out hope that things may end otherwise. — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
“Unless paid, I never read books by or about businessmen or politicians, nor should anyone else.” — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
Saddling another person with a book he did not ask for has always seemed to me like a huge psychological imposition, like forcing someone… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
“I do not accept reading tips from strangers, especially from indecisive men whose shirt collars are a dramatically different color from the main portion… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image