Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Paul Scott

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British novelist Paul Scott.

Last updated on November 26, 2024.

Paul Mark Scott was an English novelist, playwright and poet, best known for his tetralogy The Raj Quartet. His novel Staying On won the Booker Prize for 1977.

British - Novelist | March 25, 1920 - March 1, 1978

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We need to be able to go to school and feel safe and accepted for who we are.

Paul Scott

The past becomes a texture, an ambience to our present.

Paul Scott

Ah, well, the truth is always one thing, but in a way it's the other thing, the gossip, that counts. It shows where people's hearts lie.

Paul Scott

Imagination is not enough. Knowledge is necessary.

Paul Scott

In India nearly everybody spoke metaphorically except the English who spoke bluntly and could make their most transparent lies look honest as a consequence; whereas any truth contained in these metaphorical rigmaroles was so deviously presented that it looked devious itself.

Paul Scott

Rumours began with the whispered gossip of native servants and spread quickly to the rest of the population.

Paul Scott

English is the language of a people ho have probably earned their reputation for perfidy and hypocrisy because their language itself is so flexible, so often light-headed with with statements which appear to mean one thing one year and quite a different thing the next.

Paul Scott

Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Paul Scott

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