Hindustan Quotes

#1. It's certainly true that I was brought up in that British amateur tradition, the one which always held that if you were reasonably good at cricket, knew one or two Latin texts and a few zingy Oscar Wilde quotes for dinner parties, you were pretty much ready to go and run some outpost in Hindustan.

Damian Lewis

#2. Hindustan had become free. Pakistan had become independent soon after its inception but man was still slave in both these countries
slave of prejudice ... slave of religious fanaticism ... slave of barbarity and inhumanity.

Saadat Hasan Manto

#3. Huh! It is only a pahari," said Kim over his shoulder. "Since when have the hill-asses owned all Hindustan?"
The retort was a swift and brilliant sketch of Kim's pedigree for three generations.

Rudyard Kipling

#4. It was six men of Hindustan To learning much inclined, Who went to see the Elephant (Though all of them were blind) That each by observation Might satisfy the mind.

John Godfrey Saxe

#5. Narrow-minded provincialism: Sad to say but true
I am more interested in the mountain lions of Utah, the wild pigs of Arizona, than I am in the fate of all the Arabs of Araby, all the Wogs of Hindustan, all the Ethiopes of Abyssinia ...

Edward Abbey

#6. I am very interested in human-interest stories emerging from modern India. I get my inspiration and daily dose by reading the 'Hindustan Times.'

Vikas Swarup

#7. Every day you say something or do something that challenges me, changes me.

Kiera Cass

#8. It occurred to Graham that here, finally, was the similarity between the two women he'd chosen to marry: they were both totally unrufflable, one out of iciness, the other out of obliviousness.

Katherine Heiny

#9. It is with a heavy heart that I take up my pen to write these the last words in which I shall ever record the singular gifts by which my friend Mr. Sherlock Holmes was distinguished. In

Arthur Conan Doyle

#10. So, then, there abide these three, Aristotle, Longinus, and Coleridge.

George Saintsbury

#11. I'm a typical Capricorn. I'm hardworking, loyal, sometimes stubborn, and I don't believe in astrology.

Jonah Peretti

#12. For all my desire to be interesting, I have to confess that for most things and people I don't give a damn.

H.G.Wells

#13. It's a long way," John said slowly, "ain't it? It's a hard way. It's uphill all the way.

James Baldwin

#14. Most people around here prefer undead drivers, so I never get a chance to make any money on steady contracts.

T.K. Naliaka

#15. To know something, then, we must be scrubbed raw, the fasting heart exposed.

Gretel Ehrlich

#16. Its great thorns pierced the canvas, and its heavy fragrance rushed within, enveloping his sleep, becoming one with his breath, and penetrated the chambers of his exploding heart.

Patti Smith

#17. If you are required to kill someone today, on the promise of a political leader that someone else shall live in peace tomorrow, believe me, you are not only a double murderer, you are a suicide, too.

Katherine Anne Porter