18 Munshi Premchand Quotes

Munshi Premchand quotes

1. A proud person is the most skeptical.

2. Beauty doesn't need ornaments. Softness can't bear the weight of ornaments.

3. Like timidity, courage too, is contagious.

4. To be successful in life what you need is education, not literacy and degrees.

5. Trust is the first step to love.

6. Trust begets trust and untrust begets untrust. It's natural.

1. Since the day Brahma created the world to this day, no one's ever been able to satisfy a wedding guest. They always find some opportunity or other to find fault and criticise. One who can't even afford a dry piece of bread at home becomes a lord at the wedding party.

2. If brothers don't help each other in times of need, how do you think life will ever go on?

3. The first condition of marriage between a man and a woman is that both must belong to each other totally.

4. A household can never appear prosperous without a cow. How auspicious it is to wake up in the morning to the mooing of your own cow!

5. As long as the shackles of wealth and property bind us, we will remain accursed forever and never attain the altar of humanity, which is life's ultimate goal.

6. Boys are quite often whimsical. Whereas girls are modest by nature and know their responsibilities very well. Their weapons are service, sacrifice, and love, by which they conquer over the males.

7. I believe that if man and woman cherish the same ideals and think alike, then the marriage can be complementary to each other's work instead of being a hindrance.

8. Secrets of the past! Who does not wish to keep the past locked in a cage like a ferocious beast? The rich are sleepless for fear of thieves. The respectable have to guard their reputations in the same way.

9. Trees bear fruits only to be eaten by others; the fields grown grains, but they are consumed by the world. Cows give milk, but she doesn't drink it herself - that is left to others. Clouds send rain only to quench the parched earth. In such giving, there is little space for selfishness.

10. Wealth and compassion are opposites.

11. If there were a being in the world whose eyes could look into other people's hearts, very few men or women would be able to face up to it.

12. People are so selfish. Those you help are the ones who turn against you.