Queen of the Desert (2015)
Damian Lewis: Richard Wylie
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Quotes
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Gertrude Bell : Even if you do not hear from me for several months, pay no attention and send no one.
Charles Doughty-Wylie : The Druzes will take you for a spy.
Gertrude Bell : Yes, well maybe I am. Maybe I am a spy. But I am a spy for no one. No one but myself.
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Charles Doughty-Wylie : Will you write to me?
Gertrude Bell : Yes, I'll write to you from every post office in the desert.
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Charles Doughty-Wylie : Love is a tyrant, sparing none.
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Charles Doughty-Wylie : It's the most unbearable thing of liability
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[first lines]
Sir Mark Sykes : [stadning at a map] Assuming become Ottoman Empire finally becomes defunct, Russia would get the Dardanelles, the portion closest to them, and the Italians the islands off the mainland.
Winston Churchill : And the French had no problem with that?
Charles Doughty-Wylie : The French have a problem with anything. That's their nature.