“Is not our capacity to laugh and cry the measure of our humanity?” — Paul Scott Comedy Copy Share Image
“It is only an insincere people that can be accused of hypocrisy.” — Paul Scott Hypocrisy 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
“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
“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
“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
“the exercise of authority was not an easy business, especially if those who exercised it no longer felt they had heaven on… — Paul Scott Authority Copy Share Image
We need to be able to go to school and feel safe and accepted for who we are. — 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
“Unfortunately, there is always an unmapped area of dangerous fallibility between a policy and its pursuit.” — Paul Scott Fallibility 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
“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 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
“the unexpected side of a man’s personality is more memorable than the proof he may appear to give from time to time… — Paul Scott Time 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“There’s a difference between trying to stop an injustice and obstructing justice.” — Paul Scott Injustice 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
Rumours began with the whispered gossip of native servants and spread quickly to the rest of the population. — Paul Scott Gossip 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 Hate 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
“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
“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
“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
English is the language of a people ho have probably earned their reputation for perfidy and hypocrisy because their language itself is… — Paul Scott Copy Share Image
