Bengal Quotes

#1. There is Bengal, and Bihar, Barakor river is in the middle of them; so strange, so profound! No other river (not even Ganga) has cast so vast a spell on me.

Sukanta Bhattacharya

#2. 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 to the chandeliers of Delhi.

Pranab Mukherjee

#3. We'll all see through Mourinho. We'll find out he's just a Bengal lancer.

Eamon Dunphy

#4. 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 deadliest thunders: gorgeous Cuba knows tornadoes that never swept tame northern lands.

Herman Melville

#5. I was seized on the 8th of June, 1824, in consequence of the war with Bengal and, in company with Dr. Price, three Englishmen, one American, and one Greek, was thrown into the death prison at Ava, where we lay eleven months - nine months in three pairs and two months in five pairs of fetters.

Adoniram Judson

#6. 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, Madras and Delhi where there is a Bengali population.

Satyajit Ray

#7. I grew up in Kolkata in a traditional family. We had friends who lived in mansions just like the one in 'Oleander Girl.' Growing up, I was fascinated by the old house and the old Bengal lifestyle.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#8. 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. Have some food, some water, but Bengal tiger a serious problem. Please advise family in Winnepeg, Canada. Any help very much appreciated. Thank you.

Yann Martel

#9. 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 Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal. Now what happens? This benefit goes to those mills or export houses in Mumbai. Or in Chennai or in Bangalore.

K. V. Thomas

#10. In Bengal it was so easy to know who was who; more often than not, just to hear someone's name would reveal their religion, their caste, their village.

Amitav Ghosh

#11. I have both English bulldog determination and Bengal tiger strength.

Bikram Choudhury

#12. What we need, Mikhail, is Raven's calming influence. You look about as reassuring as a Bengal tiger.
Oh, and you look like a bunny rabbit, Mikhail scoffed.

Christine Feehan

#13. 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, and Bengal tigers and panda bears in China ... you hardly see anything on the habitat of man in the urban environment.

Jan Gehl

#14. A good writer can watch a cat pad across the street and know what it is to be pounced upon by a Bengal tiger.

John Le Carre

#15. Bengal is poor not because of lack of capital but lack of ideas and vision.

Debasish Mridha

#16. West Bengal belongs to Bengalis. We should live here like a king and not as servants.

Mithun Chakraborty

#17. 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. (in Belur, West Bengal).

Swami Vivekananda

#18. 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 and the gardens of our sea-side residences.

Henry David Thoreau

#19. The East India Company established a monopoly over the production of opium, shortly after taking over Bengal.

Robert Trout

#20. (Gray) Davis said yesterday that he is going to fight like a Bengal tiger, which I believe is also an endangered species.

Jay Leno

#21. In Bengal, Hindus are known to crack jokes at the expense of their gods and goddesses and that's what I did.

Sunil Gangopadhyay

#22. 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 has no patience to wait.

Swami Vivekananda

#23. Green darners never attack people, but they have been seen bringing down hummingbirds. They are the Bengal tigers of the microworld.

Richard Preston

#24. I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the colour of a rose in Bengal.

Jorge Luis Borges

#25. The Bengal tiger always has his tail up, ready to devour the opposition.

Navjot Singh Sidhu

#26. India will be successful when UP, Bihar, West Bengal, Assam and other parts of North East India are strengthened. India cannot develop till the eastern part of the country develops.

Narendra Modi

#27. There was a curious sense of apprehension in her heart. He was certainly very handsome. It would be thrilling to be the wife of the Governor of Bengal and very nice to be grand and have the ADCs [Aide de Camps] running about to do one's bidding

W. Somerset Maugham

#28. The Naxalite revolution - an ultra-left Maoist movement - in Bengal, and elsewhere in India, in the late 1960s provides one strand of 'The Lives of Others.'

Neel Mukherjee

#29. My father was the Formica King of Long Island, and my mother was the daughter of a Bengal Lancer in India.

Ricky Jay

#30. How it is that Bengal with all its knowledge, intelligence, sacrifice, and emotion tolerates this slaughter?

Mahatma Gandhi

#31. Meanwhile the Hemulen was arranging firework set pieces in suitable places. They had Bengal Lights, Blue-Star Rain, Silver Fountains, and Rockets that exploded with stars.

Tove Jansson

#32. The Bay of Bengal is hit frequently by cyclones. The months of November and May, in particular, are dangerous in this regard.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#33. If I produce a 450-pound Bengal tiger, it's going to create a lot more wonder than if I produce a rabbit.

Doug Henning

#34. 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, high winds and lonely sunsets.

Qurratulain Hyder

#35. Blind obedience was never what I wanted. Yet, you seem determined to keep us in the past, where every act, every response, is either black or white, when you know damned good and well our lives never existed on such a plane.

Lora Leigh