“The calendar was a mathematical progression with arbitrary surprises.” — Paul Scott Copy Share Image
“The permutations of English corruption in India were endless” — Paul Scott Corruption Copy Share Image
“If God is never happy what chance of happiness is there for us?” — Paul Scott Chance 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
“There’s a difference between trying to stop an injustice and obstructing justice.” — Paul Scott Injustice 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
“Independence is not something you can divide into phases. It exists or does not exist.” — Paul Scott 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
“time, stability and loyalty, which are not things usually to be reaped without first being sown. Perhaps,” — Paul Scott Loyalty 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“There are images that stay vividly in your mind, even after many years: images coupled with the feeling that at the same… — 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
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
“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
“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
“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
“Picture her then: Daphne Manners, a big girl (to borrow a none too definite image from Lady Chatterjee) leaning on the balcony… — Paul Scott Daphne 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
“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
“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
“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 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
“love, as their parents knew, was not enough. Hunger and poverty could never be reduced by love alone.” — Paul Scott Hunger 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
“the one thing to which the human spirit could always accommodate itself was chaos and misfortune.” — Paul Scott Chaos Copy Share Image
“The structure of a friendship is seldom submitted to analysis until it comes under pressure;” — Paul Scott Friend 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
“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 Calmness 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
