“The Rains Came” quotes

“I was brought up in the hills, where charity is a sign of weakness.”
Maria Ouspenskaya - Maharani

“You'll see what I mean, if you're still here when the rains come. You'll see them overnight turn the fields, the gardens and the jungles from a parched and burning desert, into a mass of green that seems to live, to writhe and to devour the walls, the trees and the houses.”

George Brent - Tom Ransome

“- Thomas Ransome: Don't waste your time. He's a surgeon and a scientist. Any interest he might have in romance is purely biological.
- Lady Edwina Esketh: You make him sound even more exciting.”

George Brent - Tom Ransome
Myrna Loy - Lady Edwina Esketh

In Europe, when someone says "It looks like rain", in all probability, he's trying to make polite conversation. But here, where people die as easily as they're born, they're speaking in terms of life and death.

George Brent - Tom Ransome

“What would you prescribe for a patient about to die of galloping boredom?”
Myrna Loy - Lady Edwina Esketh

“That's why we didn't get on. You've always wanted a woman to treat you like a god. I treated you as if you were just as bad as myself.”

Myrna Loy - Lady Edwina Esketh

“- Major Rama Safti: The world's not as bad as you think, Tom.
- Thomas Ransome: No? Only trying to commit suicide as fast as it knows how.”
Tyrone Power - Major Rama Safti
George Brent - Tom Ransome