Quotes from Paul Scott

It is said that he spoke the language of the greased palm, and this language is international.

I understood the connexion between his idea, and my idea that no one had any rights over me, that there wasn't anyone I was answerable to except myself.

Romesh Chand was a man who did not believe in telephones, in the necessity for telephones

Independence is not something you can divide into phases. It exists or does not exist.