“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
“Unfortunately, there is always an unmapped area of dangerous fallibility between a policy and its pursuit.” — Paul Scott 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
“riot squads were ready to go into action. Although these young English boys (many of them civilians themselves little more than a… — Paul Scott 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
“There’s a difference between trying to stop an injustice and obstructing justice.” — Paul Scott Justice Copy Share Image
“She did not divide conduct into parts. She was attempting always a wholeness. When there is wholeness there are no causes. Only… — Paul Scott Courage 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
“I had that sensation which sometimes comes to us all, of returning to a situation that had already been resolved on some… — Paul Scott 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
“wily minds and cold hearts were the combination Bronowsky found most common in English administrators.” — Paul Scott Cold heart 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
“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
“the exercise of authority was not an easy business, especially if those who exercised it no longer felt they had heaven on… — Paul Scott Business 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
“It is said that he spoke the language of the greased palm, and this language is international.” — Paul Scott Language 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
“there is nothing more gullible in the whole animal world than a human being? One has this hysterical belief in the non-recurrence… — Paul Scott Animals Copy Share Image
“she had this look of calmness, of concentration, the look, I think, of all women who for the first time are with… — Paul Scott Children 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
“I understood the connexion between his idea, and my idea that no one had any rights over me, that there wasn’t anyone… — Paul Scott 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
“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
