Zemindar Quotes

“I cried silently in the unsilent dark”
― Valerie Fitzgerald, Zemindar

“I am also awe-struck - not by the evident heroism, but by the magnitude of the stupidity of human beings. Is all history merely the outcome, the artificially hallowed outcome, of a chance concatenation of ignorance and arrogance in some one character?”
― Valerie Fitzgerald, Zemindar

“Being asked for one's advice is always flattering”
― Valerie Fitzgerald, Zemindar

“...how we confronted our trials dictated how we thought of ourselves, as pawns or human beings.”
― Valerie Fitzgerald, Zemindar

“They were human, and humanity is inconsistent.”
― Valerie Fitzgerald, Zemindar

“That which does not make a man worse than he was, also does not make his life worse, nor does it harm him whether from without or from within.’ Marcus Aurelius”
― Valerie Fitzgerald, Zemindar

“helplessly. ‘But none of us can know when or how it will all end. So you see … neither past, present nor future are going to supply the material for healing reveries for me. Have you any other suggestions?”
― Valerie Fitzgerald, Zemindar

“I gathered that nor war nor tumult could turn the Indian craftsman from his trade.”
― Valerie Fitzgerald, Zemindar

“That's the trouble with being a doctor; know what's wrong, can't put it right most often.”
― Valerie Fitzgerald, Zemindar

“Hatred has a way of destroying the hater more surely than the hated'. Trite, but true in a most terrible way.”
― Valerie Fitzgerald, Zemindar

“I cried because nineteen years of living could leave behind no more lasting memorial than a few carefully adjusted impressions of a character in a handful of mortal minds.”
― Valerie Fitzgerald, Zemindar

“Mr Kavanagh, after all, had obviously risked his life deliberately for the gain of himself and his family.

The native spies had risked theirs, and repeatedly, in contradiction of all they held most dear on the natural plane, to defend an ancient and honourable but nebulous ideal - the 'keeping of salt'.”
― Valerie Fitzgerald, Zemindar

“..that the gossip of Indian roads that travels faster than a message by telegraph, and carries more of actual truth than any newspaper.”
― Valerie Fitzgerald, Zemindar

“My grandmother always said "An idle woman is a mischievous woman”
― Valerie Fitzgerald, Zemindar

“Beautifully descriptive. One of the best books I've read.”
― valerie Fitzgerald, Zemindar