30 Quotes by Saadat Hasan Manto

میرے شہر کے معززین کو میرے شہر کی طوائفوں سےزیادہ بہتر کوئی نہیں جانتا۔

If you find my stories dirty, the society you are living in is dirty. With my stories, I only expose the truth.

Some people kiss as if they were eating watermelon.

I feel like I am always the one tearing everything up and forever sewing it back together.

But love, whether in Multan or on Siberia’s icy tundra, whether in the winter or the summer, whether among the rich or the poor, whether among the beautiful or the ugly, whether among the crude or refined, love is always just love. There’s no difference.

If you cannot bear these stories then the society is unbearable. Who am I to remove the clothes of this society, which itself is naked. I don’t even try to cover it, because it is not my job, that’s the job of dressmakers.

War has brought inflation even to the graveyard.

To those men who say that women from “good families” must come into the world of cinema, I have this question: What is it that you mean by “good?” A woman, who honestly puts her wares on display, and sells them without an intention to cheat, is such a woman not virtuous?

To tell you the truth, the world seemed full of sad people – those who slept on the uncovered stoops of shops as well as those who lived in high-rise mansions. The man who walks about on foot worries that he doesn’t have decent shoes to wear. The man who rides the automobile frets that he doesn’t have the latest model car. Every man’s complaint is valid in its own way. Every man’s wish is legitimate in its own right.