Jayakrishna Dikshitar Quotes

#1. EB: Perhaps it's her way of rebelling. You know a thing or two about rebellion, I think.
NW: Yes, but I did it the proper way. I drank and smoked and took lovers. Who rebels with mathematics?

Khaled Hosseini

#2. If you turned your back on irony, it curdled into sarcasm. And what good was it then? Sarcasm was irony which had lost its soul. Beneath

Julian Barnes

#3. Books, in all their variety, offer the human intellect the means whereby civilisation may be carried triumphantly forward.

Winston Churchill

#4. Good writing is almost the concomitant of good history. Literature and history were joined long since by the powers which shaped the human brain; we cannot put them asunder.

C.V. Wedgwood

#5. Each character you play has its own set of characteristics, for want of a better word.

Douglas Booth

#6. Satire is a composition of salt and mercury; and it depends upon the different mixture and preparation of those ingredients, that it comes out a noble medicine, or a rank poison.

Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey

#7. Maybe part of falling in love with someone else is also falling in love with yourself.

Nicola Yoon

#8. Wounds are wounds. Scars are scars. They can heal but not vanish.

D.N. Joshi

#9. See! sweet and sound she sleeps in granny's bed, between the paws of the tender wolf.

Angela Carter