Bibhuti Mishra Quotes & Sayings

Although it is no longer customary to offer visitors a straw through which to drink from a communal vat of beer, today tea or coffee may be offered from a shared pot, or a glass of wine or spirits from a shared bottle. And when drinking alcohol in a social setting, the clinking of glasses symbolically reunites the glasses into a single vessel of shared liquid. These are traditions with very ancient origins. — Tom Standage

Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome. — Anthony Trollope

Who taught you to pilot a Jacket like that?"
"You did, Sergeant. — Hiroshi Sakurazaka

Eleanor Vance was thirty-two years old when she came to Hill House. The only person in the world she genuinely hated, now that her mother was dead, was her sister. She disliked her brother-in-law and her five-year-old niece, and she had no friends. — Shirley Jackson

Yet, when one thinks of it, diplomacy without force is a but a rotten reed to lean upon. — Joseph Conrad

None will ever be true Parisian who has not learned to wear a mask of gaiety over his sorrows ... — Gaston Leroux

See more than your eyes can see.
Hear more than your ears can hear.
Do more than your hands can do.
Go further than your feet can go. — Matshona Dhliwayo