Quotes from Khwaja Ahmad Abbas

How do you know I'm a romanticist?" Like most romanticists Anwar too prided himself on being a realist.

He was an odd mixture of naivety and snobbery, a poseur who was not entirely insincere, a dandy in khaddar, a patriot who would cheerfully go to the gallows - provided press photographers were present to take pictures of his martyrdom!

Thus does youth weave the web for his own capture and feigns surprise when ultimately he is caught!

This, I must say, is unusual courtesy", he commented. "This", she corrected him,"is an unusual country.