Sahib Quotes

#1. He was holding a tray. On the tray were two glasses of milky Indian chai. 'Chota hazari, sahib,' said Ladoo. Bed tea. 'What a nice gesture,' I said returning to Olivia. 'Mrs Puri has sent us up some tea.' 'I wish she had sent it up two hours later,' said Olivia from beneath her sheets.

William Dalrymple

#2. Fear is an ugly weapon, sahib, whose hilt is more dangerous than its blade.

Talbot Mundy

#3. Pukka sahib or rank outsider
gentleman or bounder
and it's accent, accent, all the way.

Christina Stead

#4. With all respect, Sahib, you have little to teach us in strength and toughness. And we do not envy you your restless spirits. Perhaps we are happier than you? But we would like our children to go to school. Of all the things you have, learning is the one we most desire for our children.

Edmund Hillary

#5. If it was wrong to seek God in a stone, how was it right to seek Him in a book called the Gita, the Granth Sahib or the Koran?

Mahatma Gandhi

#6. For it is the condition of his rule that he shall spend his life trying to impress the 'natives,' and so in every crisis he has got to do what the 'natives' expect of him ... A sahib has got to act like a sahib; he has got to appear resolute, to know his own mind and do definite things.

George Orwell

#7. The entire Granth Sahib, which is the central scripture of Sikhism, is basically an elaboration of the Mool Mantar.

Abhijit Naskar

#8. Ah, sahib. I know you just come to comfort a old man left to live by hisself. Soomintra say I too old-fashion. And Leela, she always by you. Why you don't sit down, sahib? It ain't dirty. Is just how it does look.'
Ganesh didn't sit down. 'Ramlogan, I come to buy over your taxis.

V.S. Naipaul

#9. Everyone on the planet has a dark and a light. That's a multi-dimensional character.

Lisa Cholodenko

#10. Compulsive eating is only the symptom; believing that you are not worth your own love is the problem. Go for the love. You will never be sorry.

Geneen Roth

#11. If we are going to carry on growing, and we will, because no country is going to forfeit its right to economic growth, we have to find a way of doing it sustainably.

Tony Blair

#12. Each man is an island unto itself" - Strangman

J.G. Ballard

#13. I love it when people say things to me in public and want to meet me, because I want to meet them! Early on, my manager told me, 'If you want to sell 500,000 records, then go out there and meet 500,000 people.'

Taylor Swift

#14. Surrender is the most difficult thing in the world while you are doing it and the easiest when it is done.

Bhai Sahib Singh

#15. It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.

Gautam Gambhir

#16. Over 6 million people were evacuated from New Jersey ahead of the hurricane. And now, three of them have gone back.

Jay Leno

#17. In the whole of the universe there are only two: the lover and the beloved.

Bhai Sahib Singh

#18. The real problem, both in discussions of mass shootings and in discussions of gun control, is that too many people are too committed to a vision to allow mere facts to interfere with their beliefs, and the sense of superiority that those beliefs give them.

Thomas Sowell

#19. Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind.

Joseph Addison

#20. If you want to be watched by governments, all you have to do is tell people that you research radiation.

Steven Magee