The Guide Rk Narayan Quotes

It seems to me that we generally do not have a correct measure of our own wisdom.

Travelers are an enthusiastic lot. They do not mind any inconvenience as long as they have something to see.

But it was like hiding a corpse. I’ve come to the conclusion that nothing in this world can be hidden or suppressed. All such attempts are like holding an umbrella to conceal the sun.

But you are not my wife. You are a woman who will go to bed with anyone who flatters your antics. That’s

The unbeaten brat will remain unlearned,

A man who preferred to dress like a permanent tourist was just what a guide passionately looked for all his life. You may want to ask why I became a guide or when. I was a guide for the same reason as someone else is a signaler, porter, or guard. It is fated thus. Don’t laugh at my railway associations. The railways got into my blood very early in life. Engines with their tremendous clanging

One often hears of suicide pacts. It seems to me a wonderful solution, like going on a long holiday. We could sit and talk one night perhaps, and sip our glasses of milk, and maybe we should wake up in a trouble-free world. I’d propose it this very minute if I were sure you would keep the pact, but I fear that I may go ahead and you may change your mind at the last second. ‘And have the responsibility of disposing of your body?’ I said, which was the worst thing I could have said.

The Indian novel in English has been around for longer than is generally realized, with the first attempts dating to the middle of the nineteenth century.

I’ve come to the conclusion that nothing in this world can be hidden or suppressed. All such attempts are like holding an umbrella to conceal the sun.

Nothing in this world can be hidden or suppressed. All such attempts are like holding an umbrella to conceal the sun.

In a few months I was a seasoned guide. I had viewed myself as an amateur guide and a professional shopman, but now gradually I began to think of myself as a part-time shop-keeper and a full-time tourist guide.

A film of the novel, called simply Guide, was released in 1965, produced by and starring Dev Anand, directed by Vijay Anand, and with Waheeda Rehman as Rosie

I felt too hurt. I thought that Othello was kindlier to Desdemona.

brinjals

By the twelfth day of his fast, Raju himself has become a tourist attraction. Before an enormous crowd and an American television crew, the starving man is helped down to the drought-stricken river to pray:

Raju remained silent. He could not open his lips without provoking admiration. This was a dangerous state of affairs.

What must happen must happen; no power on earth or in heaven can change its course, just as no one can change the course of that river.

Thousands of persons must have said the same thing to her since, but I happened to be the first in the line.

Who would decorate a rainbow?