Lama Quotes in Kim (1950)

Kim: How do you fair on the road?

Lama: On charity. What is the custom of charity in this town? In silence or aloud?

Kim: Those who beg in silence starve in silence.

Lama: I beg as the master begged. Even as he went, so do I.

Kim: [as they are about to cross a stream, Kim spots a cobra on a rock] No, holy one, don't go there. See - a cobra, king cobra!

Lama: [Kim picks up a large stone to kill it] No, let him live out his life! He's bound on the wheel of life as we are. Great evil this soul must have done to be reborn in this shape!