
"Burmese Days" Quotes
A disillusioned Englishman navigates the oppressive society of colonial Burma.
fiction | 354 pages | Published in 2023
Quotes
Autocracy, whether of priest or king, is the same thing.
There is only one hour in the day when a white man can get on without the risk of meeting a native, and that hour is sacred to tennis.
He had much of the adequate Englishman's contempt for foreigners.
For the rest nothing mattered beside one fact: the tyranny, the filth, the anonymous persecution that went on all around them.
It is the time, it is the democratic era! The tyranny is done away with forever!
The Act means progress and civilization. It means that vistas are opening for us, vistas that were undreamed of a hundred years ago.
The real corruption of India lay not in their poverty, but in their climate.
The devil is a very uninteresting person. Never anything new. Never anything new... Rub out all these petty beliefs forever!
They are white and I am black. Both of us are liars, but lies have different colours.
Hypocrisy, prejudice, greed, all the attributes of imperialism were preserved in their pure state.