Awkward Quote by Rohinton Mistry

“They hanged my mother. I watched her body swing from the lower branches of a silk cotton tree. She had committed a crime for…

— Maryse Condé

“That punishment, the public punishment of disgrace, should in a just measure attend his share of the offence is, we know, not one of…

— Jane Austen

“...so I walked down to the operation nearest my office, a brothel, and found the manager. Before he could say anything, I pinned the…

— Steven Brust

“Once more the odious courtesies began, the first handed the knife across K. to the second, who handed it across K. back again to…

— Franz Kafka

“Dear boy, I only want to be hanged. What possible objection can he have to that?”

— Christopher Fry

“I was shocked to read that Lord Ferrers, a Home Office minister, when booked for speeding and presented with a £40 fixed penalty with…

— Auberon Waugh

“The correspondent wondered ingenuously how in the name of all that was sane could there be people who thought it amusing to row a…

— Stephen Crane

“Mr Flosky suddenly stopped: he found himself unintentionally trespassing within the limits of common sense.”

— Thomas Love Peacock

“The fedayeen attack that had been planned on the army camp was aborted at the last moment by none other than the fedayeen themselves.…

— Arundhati Roy

“The guy took off, which meant short of braining him with the glass, there was no other way of expressing his I-am-an-island opinion. Although…

— J.R. Ward

Thrice is he arm'd that hath his quarrel just, And he but naked, though lock'd up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.

— William Shakespeare

“Once they were sitting at the kitchen table opposite each other. To his right and to her left was a window. Furious at something…

— Michael Ondaatje