“Deny people something they want, over a longish period, and they naturally start disagreeing about precisely what it is they do want.” — Paul Scott 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
“The structure of a friendship is seldom submitted to analysis until it comes under pressure;” — Paul Scott Friendship 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
“Independence is not something you can divide into phases. It exists or does not exist.” — Paul Scott Freedom 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 Patriotism 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 Old man 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
“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 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
“Romesh Chand was a man who did not believe in telephones, in the necessity for telephones,” — Paul Scott 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
“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
“In such a fashion human beings call for explanations of the things that happen to them and in such a way scenes… — Paul Scott Children Copy Share Image
“in this life, living, there is no dignity except perhaps in laughter.” — Paul Scott Laughter 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 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 Love 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 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
“It was extraordinary, Ahmed thought, how men distinguished in one field – and he assumed that Pandit Baba Sahib was distinguished –… — Paul Scott Copy Share Image
“If God is never happy what chance of happiness is there for us?” — Paul Scott Happiness Copy Share Image
