Beauty doesn't need ornaments. Softness can't bear the weight of ornaments.
Use itEssay on simplicity; true beauty needs no ornamentation or display.
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Premchand quotes for UPSC
7 sourced quotes by Premchand on character & virtue, courage, women & gender, economy, development & poverty, culture, art & literature, with a use case for each in GS4, Essay and interviews.
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A man's worth is not measured by his wealth but by his character and deeds.
— PremchandIn Karmabhoomi (1932)
Use itGS4: a person's worth lies in character and deeds, not wealth.
Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right?
— PremchandIn his novel Godaan, Chapter 1
Use itGS4: conclude a dilemma answer; conscience asks 'is it right?', not safe, politic or popular.
Does being a man make all things forgivable and being a woman all things unforgivable?
— PremchandPortrayal of Women in Premchands Stories A Critique
Use itGS1/Essay on patriarchy; expose double standards in judging men and women.
The rich never go hungry, but the poor are always starving. This is the real tragedy of our society.
— PremchandIn Godaan (1936), Premchand's last and most celebrated novel
Use itEssay/GS3 on inequality and hunger; deprivation of the poor amid plenty is society's tragedy.
It is the duty of a writer to protect and argue in favour of those who are oppressed, sufferers, whether an individual or a group deprived.
— PremchandSpoke in a lecture quoted in page=96
Use itEssay on literature and society; writers must champion the oppressed and deprived.
The greater the calamity, [he once wrote] the tougher the fibre. It is tragedy that makes a man.
— PremchandQuoted in "THE PREMCHAND READER Selected Stories 1"
Use itLife/Essay: adversity strengthens character; tragedy makes a person.