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Top 15 M.M. Kaye Quotes (2024 Update)

M.M. Kaye Quote: “It is not an easy thing to be a woman and love with the whole heart: which men do not understand – having many loves, and delighting in danger and war.”

1. “It is not an easy thing to be a woman and love with the whole heart: which men do not understand – having many loves, and delighting in danger and war.”

M.M. Kaye Quote: “If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer: let him step to the music that he hears.”

2. “If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer: let him step to the music that he hears.”

M.M. Kaye Quote: “I cannot see anything admirable in stupidity, injustice and sheer incompetence in high places, and there is too much of all three in the present administration.”

3. “I cannot see anything admirable in stupidity, injustice and sheer incompetence in high places, and there is too much of all three in the present administration.”

M.M. Kaye Quote: “Did you ever read Aurora Leigh? – “Earth’s crammed with heaven, and every common bush afire with God; but only he who sees takes off his shoes.”

4. “Did you ever read Aurora Leigh? – “Earth’s crammed with heaven, and every common bush afire with God; but only he who sees takes off his shoes.”

M.M. Kaye Quote: “There is no particular merit in fighting for your own skin when you know that it is fight or die, but there is considerable merit in being prepared to die when you know you can escape quite easily. Put at its lowest, there is a certain stubborn foolhardy heroism in that.”

5. “There is no particular merit in fighting for your own skin when you know that it is fight or die, but there is considerable merit in being prepared to die when you know you can escape quite easily. Put at its lowest, there is a certain stubborn foolhardy heroism in that.”

M.M. Kaye Quote: “Common sense will nearly always stand you in better stead than a slavish adherence to the conventions.”

6. “Common sense will nearly always stand you in better stead than a slavish adherence to the conventions.”

M.M. Kaye Quote: “Perhaps I myself am a pompous and conceited old fool. And perhaps if these fools I complain of were French or Dutch or German I would not mind so much, because then I could say ‘What else can you expect?’ and feel superior. It is because they are men of my own race that I would have them all good.”

7. “Perhaps I myself am a pompous and conceited old fool. And perhaps if these fools I complain of were French or Dutch or German I would not mind so much, because then I could say ‘What else can you expect?’ and feel superior. It is because they are men of my own race that I would have them all good.”

M.M. Kaye Quote: “I do not doubt that you would have done all that was in your power to make her happy. But it is not in your power to build a new world; or to turn back time.”

8. “I do not doubt that you would have done all that was in your power to make her happy. But it is not in your power to build a new world; or to turn back time.”

M.M. Kaye Quote: “In the absence of any concrete evidence. I plump for Leonard Stock as the murderer. First, because he’s the most unlikely person, and as anyone who has ever read a murder story knows, it’s always the most unlikely person who turns out to have done the deed – and fifty thousand authors can’t be wrong.”

9. “In the absence of any concrete evidence. I plump for Leonard Stock as the murderer. First, because he’s the most unlikely person, and as anyone who has ever read a murder story knows, it’s always the most unlikely person who turns out to have done the deed – and fifty thousand authors can’t be wrong.”

M.M. Kaye Quote: “Nor have I become so blind that I cannot see what is written on your face, or so deaf that I cannot hear what is in your voice; and I am not yet so old that I cannot remember my own youth.”

10. “Nor have I become so blind that I cannot see what is written on your face, or so deaf that I cannot hear what is in your voice; and I am not yet so old that I cannot remember my own youth.”

M.M. Kaye Quote: “It was an age of lavishness. Of enormous meals, enormous families, enormous spreading skirts and an enormous, spreading Empire. An age of gross living, grinding poverty, inconceivable prudery, insufferable complacency and incomparable enterprise.”

11. “It was an age of lavishness. Of enormous meals, enormous families, enormous spreading skirts and an enormous, spreading Empire. An age of gross living, grinding poverty, inconceivable prudery, insufferable complacency and incomparable enterprise.”

M.M. Kaye Quote: “What could be more entrancing than a carefree nomadic existence camping, moving, exploring strange places and the ruins of forgotten empires, sleeping under canvas or the open sky, and giving no thought to the conventions and restriction of the modern world?”

12. “What could be more entrancing than a carefree nomadic existence camping, moving, exploring strange places and the ruins of forgotten empires, sleeping under canvas or the open sky, and giving no thought to the conventions and restriction of the modern world?”

M.M. Kaye Quote: “I still subscribe to the minority view that all horses are offensive weapons and not to be trusted a yard.”

13. “I still subscribe to the minority view that all horses are offensive weapons and not to be trusted a yard.”

M.M. Kaye Quote: “Have you really become so much an Angrezi that you believe your people have only to say “It is forbidden”, for such old customs as this to cease immediately? Bah!”

14. “Have you really become so much an Angrezi that you believe your people have only to say “It is forbidden”, for such old customs as this to cease immediately? Bah!”

M.M. Kaye Quote: “He means, Coppy, that even though he had no intention of getting engaged or married, or otherwise entangled, he has discovered – probably with disgust – that the light of Reason has been put out and that he has been forced, against every prompting of intelligence, common sense and will-power, to chuck himself and his future at your feet, because he knows that unless you can be persuaded to pick them up, neither the one or the other will ever be of any value to him again.”

15. “He means, Coppy, that even though he had no intention of getting engaged or married, or otherwise entangled, he has discovered – probably with disgust – that the light of Reason has been put out and that he has been forced, against every prompting of intelligence, common sense and will-power, to chuck himself and his future at your feet, because he knows that unless you can be persuaded to pick them up, neither the one or the other will ever be of any value to him again.”

M.M. Kaye Quote: “But surely Uncle Akbar could not be dead as they were dead? There must be something indestructible – something that remained of men who had walked and talked with one and told one stories, men whom one had loved and looked up to. But where had it gone? It was all very puzzling, and he did not understand.”

16. “But surely Uncle Akbar could not be dead as they were dead? There must be something indestructible – something that remained of men who had walked and talked with one and told one stories, men whom one had loved and looked up to. But where had it gone? It was all very puzzling, and he did not understand.”

M.M. Kaye Quote: “One way or another, all our houses are glass.”

17. “One way or another, all our houses are glass.”

M.M. Kaye Quote: “One thing I learned during our last few days in Delhi was that Time, which can so often move as slowly as a slug crossing a dusty road, can also move with the swiftness of cloud shadows on a windy day.”

18. “One thing I learned during our last few days in Delhi was that Time, which can so often move as slowly as a slug crossing a dusty road, can also move with the swiftness of cloud shadows on a windy day.”

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