« All World Quotes · V.S. Naipaul's Page
World Quotes by V.S. Naipaul
- As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the…
- The melancholy thing about the world is that it is full of stupid people; and the world is run for the benefit of the stupid…
- I think when you see so many Hindu temples of the 10th century or earlier disfigured, defaced, you realise that something terrible happened. I feel…
- The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
- A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
- I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.
- The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
- I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.
- The world is always in movement.
- I grew up in a small place and left it when I was quite young and entered the bigger world.
- My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.
- It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That's where the mischief starts. That's where everything starts unravelling...
- I often wonder what would have happened to me if I hadn't made that decision. I suppose I would have sunk. I suppose I would…
- Look, boys, it ever strike you that the world not real at all? It ever strike you that we have the only mind in the…
- Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to…
- I read many things. I read to fill in my knowledge of the world.
More World Quotes
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach