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India Quotes - Page 8

Now India is a place beyond all others where one must not take things too seriously—the midday sun always excepted.

Rudyard Kipling (2015). “Rudyard Kipling's Short Stories: Short Story Collections”, p.229, 谷月社

Religion is the life of India, religion is the language of this country, the symbol of all its movements.

Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1849, Manonmani Publishers

If anything could have pulled me out of retirement it would have been an Indiana Jones film.

"No more Indiana Jones for Connery". www.theguardian.com. June 8, 2007.

So India’s problem turns out to be the world’s problem. What happened in India has happened in God’s name. The problem’s name is God.

"Religion, as ever, is the poison in India's blood" by Salman Rushdie, www.theguardian.com. March 8, 2002.

I want nothing to do with politicians. Their hearts wither away, and die out of their bodies. Their consciences are turned to india-rubber, or to some substance as black as that, and which will stretch as much.

Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Julian Hawthorne (2015). “Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of “The Scarlet Letter”, “The House of Seven Gables” and “Twice-Told Tales””, p.1191, e-artnow

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 (2004). “White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India”, p.7, Penguin