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Khushwant Singh quotes: A Sikh woman takes the surname Kaur on baptism. Kaur was also a common surname for Rajput women and means both a princess and lioness.

A Sikh woman takes the surname Kaur on baptism. Kaur was also a common surname for Rajput women and means both a princess and lioness.

Khushwant Singh quotes: There is no wine in the world as heady as applause; and it has the same effect. It temporarily subdues anxiety and restores confidence.

There is no wine in the world as heady as applause; and it has the same effect. It temporarily subdues anxiety and restores confidence.

Khushwant Singh quotes: The doer must do only when the receiver is ready to receive. Otherwise, the act is wasted.

The doer must do only when the receiver is ready to receive. Otherwise, the act is wasted.

Khushwant Singh quotes: We are of the mysterious East. No proof, just faith. No reason, just faith.

We are of the mysterious East. No proof, just faith. No reason, just faith.

Khushwant Singh quotes: No one has invented a condom for the pen yet

No one has invented a condom for the pen yet

Khushwant Singh quotes: There is no wine in this world as heady as applause.

There is no wine in this world as heady as applause.

Khushwant Singh quotes: Morality is a matter of money. Poor people cannot afford to have morals. So they have religion.

Morality is a matter of money. Poor people cannot afford to have morals. So they have religion.

Khushwant Singh quotes: In America, they make a lot of fuss over little things.

In America, they make a lot of fuss over little things.

Khushwant Singh quotes: with their weapons. One struck it with his

with their weapons. One struck it with his

Khushwant Singh quotes: Passions have made mortals of us men. If men were not slaves of passion, they would have been Gods, each one.

Passions have made mortals of us men. If men were not slaves of passion, they would have been Gods, each one.

Khushwant Singh quotes: If the blanket of man's fate has been woven black, even the waters of Zam Zam and Kausar cannot wash it white.

If the blanket of man's fate has been woven black, even the waters of Zam Zam and Kausar cannot wash it white.

Khushwant Singh quotes: Consciousness of the bad is an essential prerequisite to the promotion of the good.

Consciousness of the bad is an essential prerequisite to the promotion of the good.

Khushwant Singh quotes: What the four seasons of the year mean to the European, the one season of monsoon means to the Indian.

What the four seasons of the year mean to the European, the one season of monsoon means to the Indian.

Khushwant Singh quotes: When the world is itself draped in the mantle of night, the mirror of the mind is like the sky in which thoughts twinkle like stars.

When the world is itself draped in the mantle of night, the mirror of the mind is like the sky in which thoughts twinkle like stars.

Khushwant Singh quotes: The last to learn of gossip are the parties concerned

The last to learn of gossip are the parties concerned

Khushwant Singh quotes: In the absence of men all women are chaste.

In the absence of men all women are chaste.

Khushwant Singh quotes: I asked my soul: What is Delhi? She replied: The world is the body and Delhi its life. Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

I asked my soul: What is Delhi? She replied: The world is the body and Delhi its life. Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

Khushwant Singh quotes: We are a nation of fence-sitters, face-flatterers and back-biters.

We are a nation of fence-sitters, face-flatterers and back-biters.

Khushwant Singh quotes: His mind was like the delicate spring of a watch, which quivers for several hours after it has been touched.

His mind was like the delicate spring of a watch, which quivers for several hours after it has been touched.

Khushwant Singh quotes: Men have many faults, women only two: Everything they say, and everything they do.

Men have many faults, women only two: Everything they say, and everything they do.

Khushwant Singh quotes: We also knew that it was in the nature of an empty stomach to produce illusions of grandeur.

We also knew that it was in the nature of an empty stomach to produce illusions of grandeur.

Khushwant Singh quotes: The need of our times is to revive the Nehruvian notion of secularism.

The need of our times is to revive the Nehruvian notion of secularism.

Khushwant Singh quotes: how much of what he told me of his past was true and how much he made up to hold my interest.

how much of what he told me of his past was true and how much he made up to hold my interest.

Khushwant Singh quotes: In a country which had accepted caste distinctions for many centuries, inequality had become an inborn mental concept.

In a country which had accepted caste distinctions for many centuries, inequality had become an inborn mental concept.