Synopsis | Dialogs

Dowager: I don’t approve of cousins marrying. It weakens the bloodline.

Ana: I've come to appreciate that God has an exquisite grasp of timing...and a rare sense of irony.

Charlotte: Ana will be the Duchess of Sealy, not some ridiculous blue stocking, who wants to go gallivanting all over... India!

Ana: There’s no freedom without fortune.

Ana: Peggy, Lord Arthur will be my Maharaja!

Chandan: The Kamasutra is really about wisdom and our creative cultivation.

Chandan: The act of love without love, is not love. And to know what love is, you must discover that you ARE love.

Chandan: Well, women are divided into elephants, mares, and does, based on the depth of their... um... yoni.

Ana: Milk and water face-to-face? That’s just watery milk. This is too confusing.

Charlotte: Are you actively encouraging the future Duchess of Sealy to be a heathen?

Mohan (the butler): I dare say, one has more privacy in Calcutta.

Devi: Seduction costs more than spirit work.

Chandan: Now imagine this touch but with the person you desire. You are conscious of that pleasure. That is Kama.

Chandan: Don’t be selective in your expression of love, be lavish in it. In love you should respond creatively to every gesture.

Devi: There is nothing in Ana’s corset. She will be no competition.

Philip: Ladies and gentleman are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen.

Chandan: But then, you are not learning the Kama Sutra for the Duke, are you?

Arthur: But that's all love is, you know, just a game like cards or billiards. Without a worthy opponent, it's hardly worth playing.

Chandan: So the purpose of our lessons was beguiling a rich man, to bend him to your will.

Chandan: So you swap one gilded cage for another!

Arthur: Common Ana! Marriage ruins a man! It is, as they say, demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

Ana: Love is a fancy. Marriage is sensible.

Philip: Dearest boy, in the end they always go with the money. Haven't you learned that?

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