“Is not our capacity to laugh and cry the measure of our humanity?” — Paul Scott Comedy Copy Share Image
“There’s a difference between trying to stop an injustice and obstructing justice.” — Paul Scott Injustice Copy Share Image
We need to be able to go to school and feel safe and accepted for who we are. — Paul Scott Able Copy Share Image
“The existence of well-to-do little neutral countries is a pointer to what global war is really all about,” — Paul Scott Life Copy Share Image
Rumours began with the whispered gossip of native servants and spread quickly to the rest of the population. — Paul Scott Gossip Copy Share Image
“there being somewhere in this curious centuries-long association a kind of love with hate on the obverse side, as in a coin.” — Paul Scott Hate Copy Share Image
“She showed courage and that’s the most difficult thing in the world for any human being to show” — Paul Scott Courage Copy Share Image
“English people are not mass-produced. They do not come off a factory line all looking, speaking, thinking, acting the same. Neither do… — Paul Scott English people Copy Share Image
“She felt the curious flattening of inquiring spirit the traveller suffers from, knowing himself without occupation or investment in the fortunes of… — Paul Scott Heart Copy Share Image
“If there are things you don’t know, you call the gap in your knowledge a mystery and fill it in with a… — Paul Scott Knowledge Copy Share Image
“the exercise of authority was not an easy business, especially if those who exercised it no longer felt they had heaven on… — Paul Scott Authority Copy Share Image
“In such a fashion human beings call for explanations of the things that happen to them and in such a way scenes… — Paul Scott Child Copy Share Image
“riot squads were ready to go into action. Although these young English boys (many of them civilians themselves little more than a… — Paul Scott Riot Copy Share Image
“Speak what is in your mind,’ Pandit Baba commanded. What insolence, Ahmed thought. There are two categories of things in my mind,… — Paul Scott Psychology Copy Share Image
English is the language of a people ho have probably earned their reputation for perfidy and hypocrisy because their language itself is… — Paul Scott Different Copy Share Image
“There are images that stay vividly in your mind, even after many years: images coupled with the feeling that at the same… — Paul Scott Every day Copy Share Image
“Kumar was a man who felt in the end he had lost everything, even his Englishness, and could then only meet every… — Paul Scott Mind Copy Share Image
“It was extraordinary, Ahmed thought, how men distinguished in one field – and he assumed that Pandit Baba Sahib was distinguished –… — Paul Scott Ahmed Thought Copy Share Image
“she felt there was between them an unexpected mutual confidence, confidence of the kind that could spring up between two strangers who… — Paul Scott Confidence Copy Share Image
“Upon retirement from the civil or the military some of them came to Pankot – not to die (although they did –… — Paul Scott Buried Copy Share Image
“The India of the picture had never existed outside its gilt frame, and the emotions the picture was meant to conjure up… — Paul Scott Fear 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,… — Paul Scott Courage Copy Share Image
“But it isn’t the best we should remember,’ she said, and shocked herself by speaking aloud, and clutched the folds and mother-of-pearl… — Paul Scott Forgiveness Copy Share Image
“He said history was a sum of situations whose significance was never seen until long afterwards because people had been afraid to… — Paul Scott History Copy Share Image
“Well, life is not just a business of standing on dry land and occasionally getting your feet wet. It is merely an… — Paul Scott Business Copy Share Image
“a repository sounds like a place for storing furniture when you bash off to some other station. I suppose an Englishman could… — Paul Scott Falling to pieces Copy Share Image
“To be rejected—which I suppose is one of the easiest ways of making your mark, you have to come right out with… — Paul Scott Rejected Copy Share Image
“The Jewel in Her Crown, which showed the old Queen (whose image the children now no doubt confused with the person of… — Paul Scott Palm trees Copy Share Image
“Such a marvelous opportunity wasted. I mean for us, by us. Indians feel it too, don’t they? I mean, in spite of… — Paul Scott Love letter Copy Share Image
“I have been thinking over what she said about knowing as distinct from remembering. Perhaps all it amounts to is that as… — Paul Scott Full life Copy Share Image
“The writer encountered a Muslim woman once in a narrow street of a predominantly Hindu town, in the quarter inhabited by moneylenders.… — Paul Scott Hinduism Copy Share Image
“They say poor old Miss Crane went round the bend. Lili went to see her once while I was still at the… — Paul Scott Right way Copy Share Image
“There is too much emotion in our own public life. The English could never be accused of that. They lock us up,… — Paul Scott Life Copy Share Image
“Incidentally, I do not agree with you when you speak of Indian independence having become a foregone conclusion. Independence is not something… — Paul Scott Freedom Copy Share Image
“But it is not these things which most impress the stranger on his journey into the civil lines, into the old city… — Paul Scott Years ago Copy Share Image
