Mark Brandon Quotes in Valley of the Kings (1954)

Mark Brandon: You know what they say: Egypt is like a man without a woman.

Ann Barclay Mercedes: Why do they say that?

Mark Brandon: Hot by day, cold by night.

Mark Brandon: [Said to Ann Mercedes] I've never seen it fail with self-centered people: they always have some sort of noble excuse for themselves.

Mark Brandon: [to Philip Mercedes] May you be the first man in history to give your bride a tomb for a present.

Mark Brandon: Every time you dig up something from the past you give more meaning to the present.