"The White Tiger" Quotes
A clever and ambitious Indian villager rises from poverty to success, but at a great cost.
fiction | 320 pages | Published in 2020
Quotes
See, the poor dream all their lives of getting enough to eat and looking like the rich. And what do the rich dream of? Losing weight and looking like the poor.
The greatest thing to come out of this country in the ten thousand years of its history is the Rooster Coop.
Only when you're afraid of the light, do you dream of the safety of the Rooster Coop.
We were all terrified of him. We all gave him a wide berth. But now I see that my big, monstrous, overbearing, overmastering, rude, and vulgar master was just a little chicken in the coop.
Never, never, never do this — that’s what I mean! Don’t walk into a trap that you know is there! And don’t act like a trapped animal if you’re not trapped. That’s the Lesson.
The dreams of the rich, and the dreams of the middle class and the poor— they never overlap, do they?
I was looking for the key for years, but the door was always open.
Yes, I am in the darkness, but I like it here. I only feel safe in the dark.
The thing to do, Pinky, is to be ruthless, and make a good life for yourself.
The Indian entrepreneur has to be straight and crooked, mocking and believing, sly and sincere, at the same time.





