Subodh Chandra Quotes & Sayings

Horatia said eagerly: "Oh, you will take m-me instead?"
"No," said Rule, with a faint smile. "I won't do that. But I will engage not to marry your sister. It's not necessary to offer me an exchange, my poor child."
"B-but it is!" said Horatia vigorously. "One of us m-must marry you! — Georgette Heyer

A friend of mine told me to shoot first and ask questions later. I was going to ask him why, but I had to shoot him. — John Wayne

I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory. — Elie Wiesel

I have always been the dunce, the never-do-well of the family, I've always have to pay double for my deeds, first with the scolding and then again because of the way my feelings are hurt. — Anne Frank

The coming of the kingdom of God cannot be observed, and no one will announce, 'Look, here it is,' or, 'There it is.' For behold, the kingdom of God is among you. — Luke The Evangelist

Reading Poe was like a near-death experience, the kind that makes you feel fragile and free in its wake. I felt almost as though I'd scared myself alive. — Koren Zailckas

How much more reasonable is it to say with the sage Plato, that the perfect happiness of a state consists in the subjects obeying their prince, the prince obeying the laws, and the laws being equitable and always directed to the good of the public? — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I knew that Feely and Daffy would never condescend to respond to a bell "So utterly Pavlovian," Feely said — Alan Bradley

More wisdom is contained in the best
crime fiction than in philosophy. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Britain needs a real push. It needs nationalism. The sort of spirit that comes during a war. It needs people really to want to see the UK sitting again, maybe not as a colonial power, but as an economic power. — Ratan Tata

Sadness is so ungrateful. — Han Suyin

When you meditate, you take charge of your life. You bring your conscious awareness to a new high point, where the vista is beyond any horizon. — Frederick Lenz

I am sir an Oracle,
And when I ope my lips, let no dogge barke. — William Shakespeare