Kismet (1944)

Joy Page: Marsinah

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Quotes 

• Hafiz : My little lotus bud.

  Marsinah : Good evening, father.

  Hafiz : Open your pretty lips, my little dove.

  Marsinah : Delicious!

  Hafiz : And why not, my pigeon? It's mixed with sugar and vinegar like the good and bad things in life. Rose water to give it perfume and sweet seeds for flavor. And it's all put together by honey bees I have working for you in a corner of the caliph's garden.

• Marsinah : I have a confession, father.

  Hafiz : Let's have it.

  Marsinah : I promised Karsha I would tell you. I was looking over the wall without my veil. That's why Karsha was on the ladder trying to see what I was looking at.

  Hafiz : O, outside those wall, my blossom, is a very ugly world. Except in a palace of your own. That's why I built the wall around you. Leave it there. Until your prince comes to batter it down and carry you off to a world as lovely as you are. The fairy tale always comes true. Never forget that, my little princess.

• Caliph : [disguised as a gardener's son]  Where is this prince supposed to come form?

  Marsinah : Kismet, my fate. Where else?

• Marsinah : [singing]  Tell me, tell me little evening star, Is this world as lovely as it seems. Did some magic carpet from afar, Bring this love to the land of my dreams?

• Hafiz : Now, my lotus, my little pigeon, you are to dance for the Grand Vizier!

  Marsinah : I? I dance for the Grand Vizier?

• Marsinah : Where can I find your son?

  The Caliph's Gardener : My son? This garden is the only wife I ever had. Thousands of these flowers are my only children.