Deborah Moggach > Quotes

“You have bewitched me body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you. And wish from this day forth never to be parted from you.”
― Deborah Moggach, Pride & Prejudice screenplay

“You may only call me "Mrs. Darcy"... when you are completely, and perfectly, and incandescently happy.”
― Deborah Moggach, Pride & Prejudice screenplay

“Everything will be alright in the end so if it is not alright it is not the end.”
― Deborah Moggach, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

“The only real failure is the failure to try, and the measure of success is how we cope with disappointment.”
― Deborah Moggach, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

“You have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love you”
― Deborah Moggach, Pride & Prejudice screenplay

“You must know, surely you must know, it was all for you. You are too generous to trifle with me. I believe you spoke with my aunt last night, and it has taught me to hope as I'd scarcely allowed myself before. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes have not changed, but one word from you will silence me forever. If, however, your feelings have changed, I would have to tell you: you have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love... I love... I love you. And I never wish to be parted from you from this day on.”
― Deborah Moggach

“But it's also true that the person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing. All we know about the future is that it will be different. But perhaps what we fear is that it will be the same. So we must celebrate the changes.”
― Deborah Moggach

“Remember you are everything, or you are nothing. If you are everything, then your heart is so big it can hold all of humanity within itself, you have no jealousy or narrowness. You are in the heart of every creature and every creature is in your heart. There is only bliss.

Intro to Part 2, Chapter 4. Credit given to Swami Purna.”
― Deborah Moggach, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

“Douglas Ainslie: Look. Can you hear yourself? Can you? Do you have any idea what a terrible person you have become? All you give out is this endless negativity, a refusal to see any kind of light and joy, even when it's staring you in the face, and a desperate need to squash any sign of happiness in me or... or... or... anyone else. It's a wonder that I don't fling myself at the first kind word or gesture that comes my way, but I don't, ou... ou... ou... out of some sense of dried-up loyalty and respect, neither of which I ever bloody get in return.
Jean, his wife: [long pause] I checked my emails. There's one from Laura.”
― Deborah Moggach, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

“Remove the Curtain of your Heart and see the Beloved sitting inside yourself. Close your Ears to the Outside and hear the Cosmic Sound going on within you.

Intro to Part 2, Chapter 1. Credit given to Mira, poet-saint of Rajastan.”
― Deborah Moggach, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

“The world is chaotic. All artists know this, but they try to make sense of it. Sophia has made sense of it for him. She has stitched it together like the most beautiful cloak. Her love has sewn it together and they can wrap it around themselves and be safe from the world. Nobody can reach them.”
― Deborah Moggach, Tulip Fever

“Your faith is like putty. How easily you mold it to your own desires.”
― Deborah Moggach, Tulip Fever

“Art lies, to tell the truth. Flowers from different seasons bloom impossibly together. Trees are shifted around in the landscape to frame the composition. Rooms are created like stage sets, furnished with the artist’s own possessions, where models are arranged in a speechless moment of drama.”
― Deborah Moggach, Tulip Fever

“After the storm the city lies becalmed. It is a sunny morning, still and cold. Branches litter the streets like broken limbs. People clear away the wreckage. They swarm around like ants whose anthill has been scuffed; how doggedly they rebuild their lives.”
― Deborah Moggach, Tulip Fever

“Speak or act with an impure mind and trouble will follow you, as the wheel follows the ox that draws the cart. Speak or act with a pure mind and happiness will follow you, as your shadow unshakeable. Sayings of the Buddha”
― Deborah Moggach, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

“Sophia will not come. How mad he is to imagine, for a moment, that she might. Why should she risk everything for him? He can offer her nothing, only love.”
― Deborah Moggach, Tulip Fever

“I’m like a mussel, closed in my shell. It’s only you who can open me.”
― Deborah Moggach, Tulip Fever

“We use God to justify our actions when in fact it is our own instinct for survival that pushes us on.”
― Deborah Moggach, Tulip Fever

“Who everywhere is free from all ties, who neither rejoices nor sorrows if fortune is good or ill, his is a serene wisdom.

Intro to Part 3, Chapter 1. Credit was given to The Bhagavad Gita.”
― Deborah Moggach, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

“The measure of our success is how we cope with disappointment.”
― Deborah Moggach, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

“Next to me she seems like a clean blackboard, whereas I am full of crossed-out scribbles that I can no longer decipher.”
― Deborah Moggach, Tulip Fever

“Thou hast begot children not only for thy selfe, but also for thy countrie, which should not only bee to thy self a joy and pleasure,but also profitable and commodius afterwardes unto the common wealth. —BARTHOLOMEW BATTY, The Christian Man’s Closet, 1581”
― Deborah Moggach, Tulip Fever

“Even when I succeed in getting there we only have an hour. At ten o’clock the night-watch trumpet sounds and those who are out return to bed. What a blameless, hardworking nation we are. In bed by ten, faithful husbands and faithful wives. It is no city for lovers, for those out late on the street are viewed with suspicion.”
― Deborah Moggach, Tulip Fever

“Evelyn’s New Age daughter will discover that a good shag beats hugging a guru any day.”
— Helen Falconer, book reviewer for The Guardian”
― Deborah Moggach, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

“It is a nice sunny day; his bunions have stopped hurting. There is always something to celebrate, in Gerrit’s view.”
― Deborah Moggach, Tulip Fever

“If the poet says that he can inflame men with love, which is the central aim in all animal species, the painter has the power to do the same, and to an even greater degree, in that he can place in front of the lover the true likeness of that which is beloved, often making him kiss and speak to it. —LEONARDO DA VINCI, Notebooks”
― Deborah Moggach, Tulip Fever

“But you have to be courageous, my friend, and unafraid of pain. For only through pain will the beauty of the world be revealed.’’ He”
― Deborah Moggach, Tulip Fever

“There's no such thing as an ugly woman, just not enough brandy. - Jan Van Loos”
― Deborah Moggach, Tulip Fever

“Can we be blamed for feeling we're too old to change? Too scared of disappointment to start it all again? We get up every morning, we do our best. Nothing else matters.”
― Deborah Moggach

“umbelliferae”
― Deborah Moggach, The Carer