"A House for Mr Biswas" Quotes

Everyone had a complaint against society. Mr Biswas's was that it made him feel like a criminal.

He wanted no more fate than that, no future. He had become impossible as a future.

He looked at her with the feeling, as always, that she was a crystallization of all the good things of life.

Everything is upset when you're ill. It's all turned topsy-turvy.

Because if you wanted to look after yourself, if you wanted to make sure you pushed yourself forward and became something in the world, you needed to belong to the most powerful community in the area.

His father had the grace to die before he could leave a lasting impression of his vulnerability.

She had the authority of long suffering and knew when to stop suffering.

This was what he had never had, this immense warmth. This was home; the pulse of the warmth convinced him.

Nobody was really responsible for anything. Nobody could wield real power.

The long years in which he had been in thrall to his properties seemed mythical to him now.