McBryde Quotes in A Passage to India (1984)

Richard Fielding: [on the glasses found on Aziz after the latter's arrest] If he had assaulted her he'd scarcely bring the evidence back with him.

McBryde: Doesn't surprise me.

Richard Fielding: I don't follow.

McBryde: When you think of crime, you think of English crime. The psychology's different here.

McBryde: [at the trial] Before we begin, I'd like to state what I believe to be a universal truth: the darker races are attracted to the fairer, but not vice-versa.

Advocate Amrit Rao: Even when the lady is LESS attractive than the gentleman?

[court breaks out in laughter]