Khushwant Singh famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

No one has invented a condom for the pen yet
-- Khushwant Singh

#Condom #Pens
Morality is a matter of money. Poor people cannot afford to have morals. So they have religion.
-- Khushwant Singh

#People #Matter #Morality
But big peopleâ€™s illnesses are always made to sound big. The simple shutting and opening of the royal arse-hole was made to sound as if the world was coming to an end.
-- Khushwant Singh

#Simple #People #Sound
Your principle should be to see everything and say nothing. 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.
-- Khushwant Singh

#Views #Principles #World
Not forever does the bulbul sing In balmy shades of bowers, Not forever lasts the spring Nor ever blossom the flowers. Not forever reigneth joy, Sets the sun on days of bliss, Friendships not forever last, They know not life, who know not this.
-- Khushwant Singh

#Spring #Flower #Forever
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.
-- Khushwant Singh

#Life #Fate #Doors
That's Delhi. When life gets too much for you all you need to do is to spend an hour at Nigambodh Ghat,watch the dead being put to flames and hear their kin wail for them. Then come home and down a couple of pegs of whisky. In Delhi, death and drink make life worth living,
-- Khushwant Singh

#Couple #Home #Flames
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

#Stars #Night #Mirrors
The last to learn of gossip are the parties concerned
-- Khushwant Singh

#Party #Gossip #Lasts
Freedom is for the educated people who fought for it. We were slaves of the English, now we will be slaves of the educated Indiansâ€”or the Pakistanis.
-- Khushwant Singh

#People #Slave #Educated
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. Wrong triumphs over right as much as right over wrong. Sometimes its triumphs are greater. What happens ultimately, you do not know. In such circumstances what can you do but cultivate an utter indifference to all values? Nothing matters. Nothing whatever...
-- Khushwant Singh

#Men #Triumph #Doe

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