Lord Canning Quotes

#1. The same year that Ghalib died in Delhi, 1869, there was born in Porbandar in Gujarat a boy called Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. It would be with the political movements headed by Gandhi, rather than those represented by Zafar, or indeed by Lord Canning, that the future of India would lie.

William Dalrymple

#2. There is a greater war, Uhtred. Not the fight between Saxon and Dane, but between God and the devil, between good and evil! We are part of it!

Bernard Cornwell

#3. If Michael, leader of God's host
When Heaven and Hell are met,
Looked down on you from Heaven's door-post
He would his deeds forget.

William Butler Yeats

#4. REVENGE is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

Francis Bacon

#5. It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#6. The next great step of mankind is to step into the nature of his own mind.

Stanley Kauffmann

#7. False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.

Adrienne Rich

#8. To me, writing is about how we see. The writers I want to read teach me how to see-see the world differently. In my writing there is no separation between how I observe the world and how I write the world. We write through our eyes. We write through our body. We write out of what we know.

Terry Tempest Williams