R.K. Narayan Quotes

But you are not my wife. You are a woman who will go to bed with anyone who flatters your antics. That's

people only follow their inclinations, and sooner or later find their reward or retribution. That's the natural law of life,

Even when you realize that the one before you is an enemy and must be treated sternly, do not hurt with words.

No one ever accepts criticism so cheerfully. Neither the man who utters it nor the man who invites it really means it.

Project is a self-contained phrase and may or may not be capable of elaboration.

It seems to me that we generally do not have a correct measure of our own wisdom.

We always question the bonafides of the man who tells us unpleasant facts.

The gods grow jealous of too much contentment anywhere, and they show their displeasure all of a sudden.

Society presses upon us all the time. The progress of the last half century is the progress of the frog out of his well.

everyone is acting a part all the time, knowingly or unknowingly.

Past is gone, present is going, and tomorrow is day after tomorrow's yesterday. So why worry about anything? God is in all this.

You become writer by writing. It is a yoga.

You become [a] writer by writing. It is a yoga.

But there is this peculiarity about heat: it appears to affect only those that think of it.

Swaminathan had never thought that this story contained a moral. But now he felt that it must have one since the question paper mentioned it.

This is my child. I planted it. I saw it grow. I loved it. Don't cut it down ...

How can two living entities possessing intelligence and judgement ever be tied together for a lifetime?

When one is seized with a passion to understand one's self, one has to leave behind all normal life and habitual modes of thought.

Every creature is born with a potential store of violence.

Two and two, four; four and three, something else. Something into something, more; some more into less. Oh, God, numbers did give me a headache.

At this moment, let us not forget that my authority has been challenged not by a warrior but by a monkey!

Every minute becomes a yesterday and is lost forever.

The only trouble was that the scripture master, Mr. Ebenzar, was a fanatic.

Death and its associates, after the initial shock, produce callousness.

Certain things acquired an evil complexion if phrased, but remained harmless in the mind.

Do you realize how few ever really understand how fortunate they are in their circumstances?

Life is about making right things and going on..

What can we do with a creature who returns to his doom with such a free heart?

It is stimulating to live in a society that is not standardized or mechanized, and is free from monotony.

The unbeaten brat will remain unlearned,

What you see is my old shell; inside it's all changed. You can't share my life.

It's often said that God made man in His own image, it's also true that man makes God in his own image.

A profound unmitigated loneliness is the only truth of life.

The compartment built to 'seat 8 passengers; 4 British Troops, or 6 Indian Troops' now carried only nine.

Knowledge, like food, must be taken within limits. You must know only as much as you need, and not more.

You threw a stone into a gutter it would only spurt filth in your face.