Quotes About Dalrymple

He also used to oblige them to wear long leather drawers, filled with live cats.

cartographical survey of India by James Rennell and built a series of public granaries, including the great Gola at Patna, to make sure the famine of 1770–71 was never repeated.

Travels in the Mogul Empire and Manucci's Mogul India.

It seemed impossible to imagine that a single London corporation, however ruthless and aggressive, could have conquered a Mughal

All that is necessary for evil to triumph, said Burke, is for good men to do nothing; and most good men nowadays can be relied upon to do precisely that. Where a reputation for intolerance is more feared than a reputation for vice itself, all manner of evil may be expected to flourish.

the only way to eliminate hypocrisy from human existence is to abandon all principles whatsoever;

Behaviorism entails the systematic denial of meaning, a denial which does violence to both the evidence and the everyday experience of humanity.

argued, with the inventive cunning that each of us possesses when a pet theory of ours is refuted by the evidence

Lawrence was an earnest, but not a serious, writer—if by serious we mean one whose outlook on life is intellectually or morally worthy of our consideration.

During our first month in the flat, however, Mr Puri was on his best behaviour. Apart from twice proposing marriage to my wife, he behaved with perfect decorum.