Bengal Quotes
19 quotes by 18 authors
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We'll all see through Mourinho. We'll find out he's just a Bengal lancer.
— Eamon Dunphy
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The Mississippi and its paddle boats, and the rivers of Bengal and their gleaming steamers evoked a similar atmosphere of romance, of long, song-filled voyages,…
— Qurratulain Hyder
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I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the colour of a rose in Bengal.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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I find it striking that the quality of the urban habitat of homo sapieans is so weakly researched compared to the habitats of gorillas, elephants,…
— Jan Gehl
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The bane of sects, especially in Bengal, is that if any one happens to have a different opinion, he immediately starts a new sect, he…
— Swami Vivekananda
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See how the Ganga flows by and what a nice building! I like this place. This is the ideal kind of place for a Math.…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Warmest climes but nurse the cruellest fangs: the tiger of Bengal crouches in spiced groves of ceaseless verdure. Skies the most effulgent but basket the…
— Herman Melville
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The ocean is a wilderness reaching round the globe, wilder than a Bengal jungle, and fuller of monsters, washing the very wharves of our cities…
— Henry David Thoreau
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I have seen vast, perhaps unbelievable, changes during the journey that has brought me from the flicker of a lamp in a small Bengal village…
— Pranab Mukherjee
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The East India Company established a monopoly over the production of opium, shortly after taking over Bengal.
— Robert Trout
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My father was the Formica King of Long Island, and my mother was the daughter of a Bengal Lancer in India.
— Ricky Jay
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In Bengal, Hindus are known to crack jokes at the expense of their gods and goddesses and that's what I did.
— Sunil Gangopadhyaya
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My films play only in Bengal, and my audience is the educated middle class in the cities and small towns. They also play in Bombay,…
— Satyajit Ray
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The Bay of Bengal is hit frequently by cyclones. The months of November and May, in particular, are dangerous in this regard.
— Abdul Kalam
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Christians have no business thinking that the good life consists mainly in not doing bad things. We have no business thinking that to do evil…
— William Sloane Coffin
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Japanese-owned cargo ship Tsimtsum, flying Panamanian flag, sank July 2nd, 1977, in Pacific, four days out of Manila. Am in lifeboat. Pi Patel my name.…
— Yann Martel
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West Bengal belongs to Bengalis. We should live here like a king and not as servants.
— Mithun Chakraborty
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I said the export benefit should go to all the farmers in the country through the mills spread across the country, in states like Uttar…
— K. V. Thomas
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I have both English bulldog determination and Bengal tiger strength.
— Bikram Choudhury
Who Wrote These Bengal Quotes
18 authors contributed a total of 19 Bengal Quotes as follows: