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As the Habsburg military used to say, the situation is catastrophic, but not serious. — Theodore Dalrymple

I learned early in my life that if people were offered the opportunity of tranquility, they often reject it and choose torment instead. — Theodore Dalrymple

The worth of a cause is not necessarily proportional to the lengths to which people will go to promote it. — Theodore Dalrymple

This? I thought, after a twenty-year civil war: This? Armageddon I expected; but Armani I did not. — William Dalrymple

For me they go hand in hand. When I travel it makes me want to write, when I read it makes me want to travel. — William Dalrymple

A curious reversal in the locus of moral concern has taken place: people feel responsible for everything except for what they do. — Theodore Dalrymple

On the road, as in many other aspects of Indian life, Might is Right. — William Dalrymple

Political correctness is often the attempt to make sentimentality socially obligatory or legally enforceable. — Theodore Dalrymple

When every benefit received is a right, there is no place for good manners, let alone for gratitude. — Theodore Dalrymple

But the ifs of history: if Cleopatra's nose had been one inch longer,' he said, 'would Antony have lost the battle of Actium? — William Dalrymple

I mean you ACRES of harm,' Dalrymple growled. 'Untold QUANTITIES of harm. I will visit a whole CONTINENT of harm upon you before we are through. — Derek Landy

The world has a lot to thank murderers for, when you come to think of it. — Theodore Dalrymple

The Tughluks have gone; Tughlukabad is a ruin; only Nizamuddin remains. — William Dalrymple

The aim of untold millions is to be free to do exactly as they choose and for someone else to pay when things go wrong. — Theodore Dalrymple

The road to heaven is paved with fulfilled desires, and to hell with frustrated ones. — Theodore Dalrymple

Delhi was once a paradise, Where Love held sway and reigned; But its charm lies ravished now And only ruins remain. No — William Dalrymple

Orders can be benign or malign, but the habit of obeying them can become ingrained. — Theodore Dalrymple

How many people does each of us know who claim to seek happiness but freely choose paths inevitably leading to misery? — Theodore Dalrymple

[T]he scale of a man's evil is not entirely to be measured by its practical consequences. Men commit evil within the scope available to them. — Theodore Dalrymple

Finally, at two minutes to three, in the sweltering heat of a Mesopotamian summer afternoon, I crossed the no-man's land into Syria. — William Dalrymple

Parents are perhaps the most common object of resentment, the people who are most frequently blamed for all our failings and failures alike. — Theodore Dalrymple

William Dalrymple called me a war junkie in his silly book. No, I don't have a desire for it. I'm appalled and infuriated by it. — Robert Fisk

What matters it, O breeze, If now has come the spring When I have lost them both The garden and my nest? — William Dalrymple

There is nothing that an intellectual less likes to change than his mind, or a politician his policy. — Theodore Dalrymple

Facts are much more malleable than prejudices. — Theodore Dalrymple

How can one respect people as members of the human race unless one holds them to a standard of conduct and truthfulness? — Theodore Dalrymple

It is only by having desire thwarted, and thereby learning to control it - in other words, by becoming civilized - that men become fully human. — Theodore Dalrymple

an attachment to his culture is, for the European, the beginning of the slippery slope. — Theodore Dalrymple

the Kauravas and the Pandavas turned from demi-gods into cave men, the great war reduced to a tribal feud fought with sticks and stones. — William Dalrymple

Fascism is not fashion. — Theodore Dalrymple

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

Havana is like Beirut, without having gone through the civil war to achieve the destruction. — Theodore Dalrymple

Equality of Ugliness: If we can't all live in a beautiful place we must all live in an ugly place. — Theodore Dalrymple

The purpose of those who argue for cultural diversity is to impose ideological uniformity. — Theodore Dalrymple

For all its faults we love this city.' Then, after a pause, she added: 'After all, we built it. — William Dalrymple

There was that all-pervasive evening scent of cut grass and jasmine. — William Dalrymple

The Cartesian point of moral epistemology: I'm angry, therefore I'm right. — Theodore Dalrymple

Political correctness is the means by which we try to control others; decency is the means by which we try to control ourselves. — Theodore Dalrymple

Do I grow cleverer with age, or does the world grow more stupid? — Theodore Dalrymple

India has always had a strange way with her conquerors. In defeat, she beckons them in, then slowly seduces, assimilates and transforms them. — William Dalrymple

I hate having second thoughts," he muttered. "Necessary, for second chances," Dalrymple put in. — Courtney Milan

Travels in the Mogul Empire and Manucci's Mogul India. — William Dalrymple

Feeling good about yourself is not the same thing as doing good. Good policy is more important than good feelings. — Theodore Dalrymple

William Dalrymple has superseded Mark Tully as the voice of India ... He may well be the greatest travel writer of his generation. — Robert Twigger

All forms of human happiness contain within themselves the seeds of their own decomposition. — Theodore Dalrymple

To regret religion is to regret Western civilization. — Theodore Dalrymple

every psychic defence mechanism known to the modern psychologist makes its appearance somewhere in Shakespeare. — Theodore Dalrymple