“If God is never happy what chance of happiness is there for us?” — Paul Scott Chance Copy Share Image
“The calendar was a mathematical progression with arbitrary surprises.” — Paul Scott Calendar Copy Share Image
“The permutations of English corruption in India were endless” — Paul Scott Corruption Copy Share Image
“Compulsively tidy people, one is told, are always wiping the slate clean, trying to give themselves what life denies all of us,… — Paul Scott Fresh start Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, there is always an unmapped area of dangerous fallibility between a policy and its pursuit.” — Paul Scott Fallibility 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
“Deny people something they want, over a longish period, and they naturally start disagreeing about precisely what it is they do want.” — Paul Scott Deny Copy Share Image
“The structure of a friendship is seldom submitted to analysis until it comes under pressure;” — Paul Scott Friend Copy Share Image
“the one thing to which the human spirit could always accommodate itself was chaos and misfortune.” — Paul Scott Chaos Copy Share Image
“Romesh Chand was a man who did not believe in telephones, in the necessity for telephones,” — Paul Scott Necessity Copy Share Image
“love, as their parents knew, was not enough. Hunger and poverty could never be reduced by love alone.” — Paul Scott Hunger 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
“her father’s generation must be the last generation of English people who would have such a choice. War or no war, it… — Paul Scott Coming to an end 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
“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 Rights 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 Sensation 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 Animal 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
“She did not divide conduct into parts. She was attempting always a wholeness. When there is wholeness there are no causes. Only… — Paul Scott Wholeness Copy Share Image
“English is not spare. But it is beautiful. It cannot be called truthful because its subtleties are infinite. It is the language… — Paul Scott English 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
“For years, since the eighteenth century, and in each century since, we have said at home, in England, in Whitehall, that the… — Paul Scott Friendship Copy Share Image
“You look at the English people you meet. Some of them you like. Some you hate. Many you are indifferent to. But… — Paul Scott Copy Share Image
“No, my dear. Leave poor Hari Kumar to work out his own salvation, if he’s still alive to work it out and… — Paul Scott Best intentions Copy Share Image
Ah, well, the truth is always one thing, but in a way it's the other thing, the gossip, that counts. It shows… — Paul Scott Gossip Copy Share Image
“Independence is not something you can divide into phases. It exists or does not exist.” — Paul Scott Exist 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
“time, stability and loyalty, which are not things usually to be reaped without first being sown. Perhaps,” — Paul Scott Loyalty 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
“When you spoke to her there wasn’t any mystery. In herself she was all the explanation I felt she needed. And that… — Paul Scott Explanation Copy Share Image
“the people in this country who feel most like foreigners to each other are English people who’ve just arrived and the ones… — Paul Scott English people Copy Share Image
In India nearly everybody spoke metaphorically except the English who spoke bluntly and could make their most transparent lies look honest as… — Paul Scott Consequence Copy Share Image
“that is rare, isn’t it? To be explained by yourself, by what you are and what you do, and not by what… — Paul Scott Explained Copy Share Image
“in this life, living, there is no dignity except perhaps in laughter.” — Paul Scott Comedy Copy Share Image
“I am an old man. I am entitled, am I not, to say what I think?—and of course to stray from the… — Paul Scott Entitled Copy Share Image
“Picture her then: Daphne Manners, a big girl (to borrow a none too definite image from Lady Chatterjee) leaning on the balcony… — Paul Scott Flowers Copy Share Image
