Paul Scott Quotes

United Kingdom, Novelist
March 25, 1920 – March, 1, 1978.

Paul Mark Scott was an English novelist, playwright, and poet, best known for his monumental tetralogy The Raj Quartet. His novel Staying On won the Booker Prize for 1977.

Also known as Playwright, Poet

The past becomes a texture, an ambience to our present.

Paul Scott
- Past
- Present
- Ambience
Imagination is not enough. Knowledge is necessary.

Paul Scott
- Knowledge
- Imagination

The structure of a friendship is seldom submitted to analysis until it comes under pressure.

Paul Scott
Ah, well, the truth is always one thing, but in a way it's the other thing, the gossip, that counts. It shows where people's hearts lie.

Paul Scott
- People
- Hearts
- Gossip
The calendar was a mathematical progression with arbitrary surprises.

Paul Scott
Deny people something they want, over a longish period, and they naturally start disagreeing about precisely what it is they do want.

Paul Scott
- People
- Want
- Period
English is the language of a people ho have probably earned their reputation for perfidy and hypocrisy because their language itself is so flexible, so often light-headed with with statements which appear to mean one thing one year and quite a different thing the next.

Paul Scott
There’s a difference between trying to stop an injustice and obstructing justice.

Paul Scott