Lucknow Boy Quotes

“Radicalism,like stamp collecting,has its time and place.Perhaps,it is useful in one's youth,but you have to move on.”
― Vinod Mehta, Lucknow Boy: A Memoir

“It is a cliché to assert that you only make friends in your youth; as you get older you can at best make acquaintances, cronies, associates—but seldom friends. Perhaps I don’t have the gift for friendship, that wonderful knack of striking up fraternal bonds of trust and affection.”
― Vinod Mehta, Lucknow Boy: A Memoir

“Adlai Stevenson, ‘It is easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.”
― Vinod Mehta, Lucknow Boy: A Memoir

“Brevity is the soul of wit.”
― Vinod Mehta, Lucknow Boy: A Memoir