khushwant singh quotes

Otherwise, the act is wasted. The simple shutting and opening of the royal arse-hole was made to sound as if the world was coming to an end.

He was awarded Padma Bhushan and Padma Vibhushan, which he later returned in protest of Operation Blue Star in support of Sikh community against the Indian Army. The scene of desolation fills my eyes with tears. “The collected novels: Train to Pakistan, I shall not hear the nightingale, Delhi”, Khushwant Singh (2009). That was life! We were slaves of the English, now we will be slaves of the educated Indians – or the Pakistanis.

My mother died at 94.

When the world is itself draped in the mantle of night, the mirror of the mind is like the sky in which thoughts twinkle like stars.

The rest is discipline.

For the Parsi, fire-worship and feeding vultures. Men have many faults, women only two: Everything they say, and everything they do.

But I was leftist in the sense that I voted communist. Master satirist Khushwant Singh was born on this day, February 2 in the year 1915.

Poor people cannot afford to have morals. The last to learn of gossip are the parties concerned, I asked my soul: What is Delhi? Consciousness of the bad is an essential prerequisite to the promotion of the good. I think I turned round at least the intelligent Sikh's point of view and that gave me enormous satisfaction. So they have religion. Nothing.”, “Under the circumstances the only honest answer an intelligent person can give to the question ‘Is there a God?’ is to say, ‘I do not know.”, “The Hindus hatred of the Mussalmans did not make sense to me.

Time flies as fast as a bird on the wing.’ They proclaim with an air of smug superiority, ‘Main mandir-vandir nahin jaata, meditate karta hoon (I don’t go to temples or other such places, I meditate).’ The exercise involves sitting lotus-pose (padma asana), regulating one’s breathing and making your mind go blank to prevent it from ‘jumping about like monkeys’ from one (thought) branch to another. When you have counted eighty years and more, Time and Fate will batter at your door; But if you should survive to be a hundred, Your life will be death to the very core.

They said that even the sea prostrated itself twice every twenty-four hours to touch the feet of Somnath.

I didn't subscribe to his fads - prohibition, celibacy, no doctors - but generally he was always right.

Khushwant Singh A Turk for toughness, for hands that never tire; An Indian for her rounded bosom bursting with milk; A Persian for her tight crotch and her coquetry; An Uzbeg to … Wrong triumphs over right as much as right over wrong. We had heard that the people of Delhi loved their city as bees love flowers.

Poor people cannot afford to have morals.

In Delhi, death and drink make life worth living. The simple shutting and opening of the royal arse-hole was made to sound as if the world was coming to an end.”, “If you look at things as they are, there does not seem to be a code either of man or of God on which one can pattern one's conduct. I acquired long-lived parents.

She replied: The world is the body and Delhi its life. That's Delhi.

When he started on the path of love, he was like fire; Now it’s ended he is a heap of ashes on a pyre. Maorality is a matter of money. Wrong triumphs over right as much as right over wrong. Morality is a matter of money. A collection of Khushwant Singh quotes and lines on writing, books, sex, moral, language, sports, reading, gossip, friends, issues, education etc.

The world changes so rapidly that if you want to get on you cannot afford to align yourself with any person or point of view.

The last to learn of gossip are the parties concerned. Not forever does the bulbul sing In balmy shades of bowers, Not forever lasts the spring Nor ever blossom the flowers. “Train to Pakistan”, p.181, Penguin Books India, Khushwant Singh (1990).

Then Somnath. “When the world is itself draped in the mantle of night, the mirror of the mind is like the sky in which thoughts twinkle like stars.” ― Khushwant Singh, Delhi tags: insomnia, night, pensive, reflection 115 likes

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