Anna and the King of Siam Quotes

“It came with a stirring of the conviction that was never to leave her: that human being, whatever his color or creed or sex, had certain inalienable rights which other human beings had no right to violate.”
― Margaret Landon, Anna and the King of Siam

“Perhaps nuns felt like this, she thought, when they passed within convent walls and left the glitter of the world behind. But their renunciation was of the will, while circumstances beyond her control had stripped her of the people who meant everything to her. And yet was it not possible that they had endured the same impoverishment, so that when the glory that was life had become husks they found it good to exchange those dead things for service and whatever vicarious happiness could be salvaged? Maybe selflessness was only selfishness on another level.”
― Margaret Landon, Anna and the King of Siam

“He searched for words to poison the shaft of his disdain.”
― Margaret Landon, Anna and the King of Siam

“Perhaps, she had dreamed, she would teach some future King, shaping his child mind for a new and better world.”
― Margaret Landon, Anna and the King of Siam

“Farewell, my beautiful Sunatda. You have been the light of the setting sun to me. The glory of your love has dispersed the dark clouds that overshadowed my life and the memory of your face will be bright before my fading eyes to the end.”
― Margaret Landon, Anna and the King of Siam

“(T)he motive consecrates the deed.”
― Margaret Landon, Anna and the King of Siam

“Anna was convinced that the low level of literature and art in Siam was due to the fear that every talented person felt of being impounded into royal service if it became known that he had more than ordinary gifts.”
― Margaret Landon, Anna and the King of Siam

“Maybe selflessness was only selfishness on another level.”
― Margaret Landon, Anna and the King of Siam

“She was a woman, slight, almost frail in appearance; not someone who could fight with guns to free the slaves, as in the United States, but someone who could fight with knowledge in the corner of the world where she found herself.”
― Margaret Landon, Anna and the King of Siam

“Change from despair to joy he made her extremely beautiful.”
― Margaret Landon, Anna and the King of Siam

“Was she insane?! She would lose her head before she was 20!”
― Margaret Landon, Anna and the King of Siam

“She had become so much more accustomed to hard work and opposition than to adulation that the only emotion she had felt had been one of acute discomfort.”
― Margaret Landon, Anna and the King of Siam

“Shall I say of you that you worship the image of your God that you have in your mind, but not your God?”
― Margaret Landon, Anna and the King of Siam

“The nonchalance irritated her more because it was not assumed.”
― Margaret Landon, Anna and the King of Siam