Death of a Lesser God Quotes

“The British may have left, but the energies her countrymen had once directed towards revolution were now engaged in endless complaint. The country, many said, had gone to the dogs.”
― Vaseem Khan, Death of a Lesser God

“And the careless disregard with which her fellow citizens – men, in particular – vacated their bodily effluent, liberally spraying walls and floors as if they were avant-garde artists of the type she sometimes saw in discarded magazines . . . A night shift in hell might have seemed paradise by comparison.”
― Vaseem Khan, Death of a Lesser God

“We Americans love to self-mythologise. The defenders of democracy and the free world. But we have our own problems and we tend to take them with us wherever we go.”
― Vaseem Khan, Death of a Lesser God

“Gulliver’s Travels: ‘We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.”
― Vaseem Khan, Death of a Lesser God

“soon become economically unviable for the British to continue in India. He’d underlined his analysis with a colourful remark that had stayed with her: ‘Running a colonial enterprise is like raising an elephant. It’s hard work, costs a fortune, and sooner or later the elephant craps on your head.”
― Vaseem Khan, Death of a Lesser God

“She felt as out of place in this environment as a crow at a convention of peacocks”
― Vaseem Khan, Death of a Lesser God