“For years, since the eighteenth century, and in each century since, we have said at home, in England, in Whitehall, that the day would come when our rule in India will end, not bloodily, but in peace, in—so we made… — Paul Scott Copy Share Image
“She had devoted her life, in a practical and unimportant way, trying to prove that fear was evil because it promoted prejudice, that courage… — Paul Scott Copy Share
“Unfortunately, there is always an unmapped area of dangerous fallibility between a policy and its pursuit.” — Paul Scott Copy Share
“a repository sounds like a place for storing furniture when you bash off to some other station. I suppose an Englishman could say that… — Paul Scott Copy Share
“riot squads were ready to go into action. Although these young English boys (many of them civilians themselves little more than a year ago,… — Paul Scott Copy Share
“There are images that stay vividly in your mind, even after many years: images coupled with the feeling that at the same time came… — Paul Scott Copy Share
“There’s a difference between trying to stop an injustice and obstructing justice.” — Paul Scott Copy Share
“She did not divide conduct into parts. She was attempting always a wholeness. When there is wholeness there are no causes. Only there is… — Paul Scott Copy Share
English is the language of a people ho have probably earned their reputation for perfidy and hypocrisy because their language itself is so flexible,… — Paul Scott Copy Share
“I had that sensation which sometimes comes to us all, of returning to a situation that had already been resolved on some previous occasion,… — Paul Scott Copy Share
“But it is not these things which most impress the stranger on his journey into the civil lines, into the old city itself (where… — Paul Scott Copy Share
“wily minds and cold hearts were the combination Bronowsky found most common in English administrators.” — Paul Scott Copy Share
“Well, life is not just a business of standing on dry land and occasionally getting your feet wet. It is merely an illusion that… — Paul Scott Copy Share
“There is too much emotion in our own public life. The English could never be accused of that. They lock us up, release us… — Paul Scott Copy Share
“the exercise of authority was not an easy business, especially if those who exercised it no longer felt they had heaven on their side.… — Paul Scott Copy Share
“Such a marvelous opportunity wasted. I mean for us, by us. Indians feel it too, don’t they? I mean, in spite of the proud… — Paul Scott Copy Share
