The King and I (1956)

Terry Saunders: Lady Thiang

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Quotes 

• Lady Thiang : They think you dress like that because you shaped like that!

  Anna Leonowens : Well I most certainly am not!

• King Mongkut of Siam : You think you teach King lesson, but this is one lesson you do not be paid for teaching. In the future, you will stop instructing wives and children in silly English song "Home Sweet House". To remind me of breaking promises I never make, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

  Anna Leonowens : Your majesty, I do not intend to have my boy brought up in a harem, and you did promise me a house; "a brick residence adjoining the palace," those were your very words in the letter.

  King Mongkut of Siam : [obviously does remember]  I do not remember such words.

  Anna Leonowens : I remember them.

  King Mongkut of Siam : I will do remembering. Who is king here? I remind you, so you remember that? I do not remember any promises. I do not remember anything, except that you are my servant.

  Anna Leonowens : Oh, no, your majesty.

  King Mongkut of Siam : What, what, what? I said you are my servant.

  Anna Leonowens : No, your majesty, that is not true. I am most certainly not your servant, and what is more, if you do not give me the house you promised, I shall be forced to return to England immediately.

  [children protest] 

  Princess Ying Yaawolak : I believe in snow!

  Lady Thiang : Do not let her go away.

  King Mongkut of Siam : I let her do nothing that is not my pleasure. It is my pleasure that you stay here, in palace, in palace!

  Anna Leonowens : No, your majesty.

  King Mongkut of Siam : [heavy sigh]  Why do you wish to leave these children, all of whom are loving you so extraordinarily?

  Anna Leonowens : I do not wish to leave them. I love them, too, quite extraordinarily, but I cannot stay in a country where a promise has no meaning.

  King Mongkut of Siam : I will hear no more about this promise!

  Anna Leonowens : A land where there is talk of honor and a wish for Siam to take its place among the modern nations of the world, where there is talk of great changes, but where everything still remains according to the wishes of the king.

  King Mongkut of Siam : You will say no more! No more!

  Anna Leonowens : I will say no more, because there is no more to say. Come, Louis.

  [Anna and Louis leave. Children protesting] 

  Anna Leonowens : Out, out, out!

  [everyone, except the King, leaves] 

• Lady Thiang : [meeting Anna for the first time, singing]  There is a happy land, far far away, where saints in glory stand bright, bright as day!

  [Anna looks confused] 

  Lady Thiang : Mis-on-ary!

  Anna Leonowens : Oh, a missionary taught you English!