Every day Quote by Paul Scott

“She had devoted her life, in a practical and unimportant way, trying to prove that fear was evil because it promoted prejudice, that courage…

— Paul Scott

“Unfortunately, there is always an unmapped area of dangerous fallibility between a policy and its pursuit.”

— Paul Scott

“a repository sounds like a place for storing furniture when you bash off to some other station. I suppose an Englishman could say that…

— Paul Scott

“riot squads were ready to go into action. Although these young English boys (many of them civilians themselves little more than a year ago,…

— Paul Scott

“There’s a difference between trying to stop an injustice and obstructing justice.”

— Paul Scott

“She did not divide conduct into parts. She was attempting always a wholeness. When there is wholeness there are no causes. Only there is…

— Paul Scott

English is the language of a people ho have probably earned their reputation for perfidy and hypocrisy because their language itself is so flexible,…

— Paul Scott

“I had that sensation which sometimes comes to us all, of returning to a situation that had already been resolved on some previous occasion,…

— Paul Scott

“But it is not these things which most impress the stranger on his journey into the civil lines, into the old city itself (where…

— Paul Scott

“wily minds and cold hearts were the combination Bronowsky found most common in English administrators.”

— Paul Scott

“Well, life is not just a business of standing on dry land and occasionally getting your feet wet. It is merely an illusion that…

— Paul Scott

“There is too much emotion in our own public life. The English could never be accused of that. They lock us up, release us…

— Paul Scott