“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
“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
“She did not divide conduct into parts. She was attempting always a wholeness. When there is wholeness there are no causes. Only… — Paul Scott 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 Copy Share Image
“the one thing to which the human spirit could always accommodate itself was chaos and misfortune.” — Paul Scott Human spirit 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 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
“The permutations of English corruption in India were endless” — Paul Scott Corruption 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 Investing 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
“The calendar was a mathematical progression with arbitrary surprises.” — Paul Scott Calendar 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
“love, as their parents knew, was not enough. Hunger and poverty could never be reduced by love alone.” — Paul Scott Hunger and poverty 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 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
“Is not our capacity to laugh and cry the measure of our humanity?” — Paul Scott Nature of man 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
