Character Quote by Khushwant Singh

When you have counted eighty years and more, Time and Fate will batter at your door; But if you should survive to be a…

— Khushwant Singh

“Freedom is for the educated people who fought for it. We were slaves of the English, now we will be slaves of the educated…

— Khushwant Singh

“There are many ways of attaining godhood, say teachers of religion. Acharya Rajneesh disagrees and says there is only one way, and sexual intercourse…

— Khushwant Singh

I don't want to be cremated, I want to be buried. I don't believe in wasting wood and I feel that one should give…

— Khushwant Singh

“I am back in my beloved city. The scene of desolation fills my eyes with tears. At every step my distress and agitation increases.…

— Khushwant Singh

“One Sikh may argue with one Sikh. One Sikh must never argue with two Sikhs–certainly not after dark.”

— Khushwant Singh

I had lots of time to read [being a lawyer] what I hadn't read in my school and college days. Being a bad student…

— Khushwant Singh

No one has invented a condom for the pen yet

— Khushwant Singh

I have never, in 50 years, ever missed a deadline [as a journalist].

— Khushwant Singh

“poverty which had celebrated a hundred thousand silver and golden jubilees.”

— Khushwant Singh

“He told us of an incident from the life of the Prophet Musa. Musa heard a poor shepherd praying: ‘Where art Thou that I…

— Khushwant Singh

The last to learn of gossip are the parties concerned

— Khushwant Singh