Chetan Bhagat Quotes

Chetan Bhagat is an Indian author, columnist, screenwriter, television personality and motivational speaker, known for his English-language dramedy novels about young urban middle-class Indians.

A noted public figure, Bhagat also writes for columns about youth, career development and current affairs for The Times of India and Dainik Bhaskar .

Bhagat's novels have sold over seven million copies. In 2008, The New York Times cited Bhagat as "the biggest selling English language novelist in India’s history".

Bhagat's screenwriting efforts have included the dramedies Kai Po Che! , 2 States , the action-superhero movie Kick , and Half Girlfriend . He won the Filmfare Award for Best Screenplay for Kai Po Che! at the 59th Filmfare Awards in January 2014.

✵ 22. April 1974  •  Other names 奇坦·巴哈特, चेतन भगत
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Famous Chetan Bhagat Quotes

“The world’s most sensible person and the biggest idiot both stay within you. The worst part is you can’t even tell who is who.”

Chetan Bhagat book 2 States: The Story of My Marriage

Variant: The world's most sensible person and the biggest idiot both stay within us. The worst part is, you can't even tell who is who.
Source: 2 States: The Story of My Marriage

“Rules, after all, are only made so you can work around them”

Chetan Bhagat book 2 States: The Story of My Marriage

Source: 2 States: The Story of My Marriage

Chetan Bhagat Quotes about people

“… but I guess it's better for people to shut up rather than rather than say something nasty.”

Chetan Bhagat

ONE NIGHT @ THE CALL CENTER Chapter 1 page 22

“It's not arrogance. [Tamilians] are quiet people.”

Chetan Bhagat

2 States: The Story of My Marriage

“Stupid people go to college but"smart people own them"….”

Chetan Bhagat

Source: Revolution 2020: Love, Corruption, Ambition

“Successful people don’t have friends.”

Chetan Bhagat book Revolution 2020

Revolution 2020 (2011)

“Only women think there is a reason to thank people if they listen to them.”

Chetan Bhagat book One Night @ the Call Center

Source: One Night @ the Call Center (2005), P. 158

Chetan Bhagat Quotes about life

“When a woman comes into your life, things organize themselves.”

Chetan Bhagat book 2 States: The Story of My Marriage

Source: 2 States: The Story of My Marriage

“Sometimes life is not about what u want to do but what u ought to do”

Chetan Bhagat

Source: Revolution 2020: Love, Corruption, Ambition

“Girls are beautiful, let's face it, and life is quite, quite worthless without them.”

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Source: Five Point Someone - What not to do at IIT! (2004), P. 106

“But that is what life is like, uncertain, screwed at times but still fun.”

Chetan Bhagat book One Night @ the Call Center

Source: One Night @ the Call Center (2005), P. 283

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Chetan Bhagat Quotes

“How can such scary looking parents create something so cute?”

Chetan Bhagat book 2 States: The Story of My Marriage

Source: 2 States: The Story of My Marriage

“Don't be serious, be sincere.”

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Source: Revolution 2020: Love, Corruption, Ambition

“The word “future” and females is a dangerous combination.”

Chetan Bhagat book 2 States: The Story of My Marriage

Source: 2 States: The Story of My Marriage

“The pretty girl is always right.”

Chetan Bhagat book 2 States: The Story of My Marriage

Source: 2 States: The Story of My Marriage

“can run, you can hide, but you can’t escape my love”

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“But her parents were certified weirdos and probably deserved such tactics.”

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P. 106aid nothing, hoping silence would evaporate us.
Source: Five Point Someone - What not to do at IIT! (2004), P. 193

“Progress is building something lasting for future.”

Chetan Bhagat book One Night @ the Call Center

Source: One Night @ the Call Center (2005), P. 228

“People like him think that they are god's gift to the world. What's worse, they are.”

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Source: Five Point Someone - What not to do at IIT! (2004), P. 25

“One thing guys know is when to shut up.”

Chetan Bhagat book One Night @ the Call Center

Source: One Night @ the Call Center (2005), P. 68

“Figuring out women is harder than topping a ManPro Quiz.”

Chetan Bhagat

Source: Five Point Someone - What not to do at IIT! (2004), P. 45

“Sometimes counting seconds is a great way to kill time through a woman's tantrums.”

Chetan Bhagat book One Night @ the Call Center

Source: One Night @ the Call Center (2005), P. 37

“Alok tried to ask the professor for a re-quiz, who stared back as if he had been asked for both his kidneys.”

Chetan Bhagat

Source: Five Point Someone - What not to do at IIT! (2004), P. 34

“We were talking a lot, but we weren't communicating at all.”

Chetan Bhagat book One Night @ the Call Center

Source: One Night @ the Call Center (2005), P. 145

“Girls handbags have enough to make a survival kit for Antarctica.”

Chetan Bhagat book One Night @ the Call Center

Source: One Night @ the Call Center (2005), P. 82

“Ryan and I took everything; though everything tasted the same, we could at least have some variety of colors on our plate.”

Chetan Bhagat

Source: Five Point Someone - What not to do at IIT! (2004), P. 21

“Theaters are the opposite of class lectures, the front row is where the action is.”

Chetan Bhagat

Source: Five Point Someone - What not to do at IIT! (2004), P. 87

“In the first three months, half of my salary went for a pigeonhole in the Siberian end of town.”

Chetan Bhagat

Source: Five Point Someone - What not to do at IIT! (2004), P. 270

“I suspect he was never young, was just born straight forty years old.”

Chetan Bhagat book One Night @ the Call Center

Source: One Night @ the Call Center (2005), P. 31

“As I said sir, no one is perfect. Apart from Google of course.”

Chetan Bhagat book One Night @ the Call Center

Source: One Night @ the Call Center (2005), P. 264

“Girls have no idea what effect their wavering has on boys.”

Chetan Bhagat book Revolution 2020

Revolution 2020 (2011)

“Esha's modelling is also beyond me as no one is ever going to pay me for my looks.”

Chetan Bhagat book One Night @ the Call Center

Source: One Night @ the Call Center (2005), P. 27

“All of us needed time to rest. And we had time - four months of it - to take all the rest in the world.”

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Source: Five Point Someone - What not to do at IIT! (2004), P. 215

“Love makes us do stupid things.”

Chetan Bhagat book Revolution 2020

Revolution 2020 (2011)

“I may not be a great surgeon, but the one little heart I have, I have given to you.”

Chetan Bhagat book One Night @ the Call Center

Source: One Night @ the Call Center (2005), P. 92

“I know, these Hindi movies are crap, but they do kind of take your mind away from the crap of real life like nothing else.”

Chetan Bhagat

Source: Five Point Someone - What not to do at IIT! (2004), P. 37

“Crap happens in life. It could happen tonight.”

Chetan Bhagat book One Night @ the Call Center

Source: One Night @ the Call Center (2005), P. 74

“That was reality and as is often the case, reality sucks.”

Chetan Bhagat book One Night @ the Call Center

Source: One Night @ the Call Center (2005), P. 168

“Kind? This is DisCo, not Mother Teresa's home.”

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Source: Five Point Someone - What not to do at IIT! (2004), P. 200

“But it will work, man. If you put your heart into it, it will.”

Chetan Bhagat book The 3 Mistakes of My Life

Source: The 3 Mistakes of My Life (2008), P. 18

“Life is tough when you are always talking to people smarter than you.”

Chetan Bhagat book The 3 Mistakes of My Life

Source: The 3 Mistakes of My Life (2008), P. 5

“Admiration passes, love endures.”

Chetan Bhagat book The 3 Mistakes of My Life

Source: The 3 Mistakes of My Life (2008), P. 3

“Remember, we need global help right now to get the vaccines. The person who needs the help cannot have ego. Ego never served anyone anyway, but if we keep ego or fake pride now, when we need help, we won't succeed. Heads down, get to work, source and administer the vaccines.”

Chetan Bhagat

Source: — Chetan Bhagat (@chetan_bhagat) April 28, 2021 https://twitter.com/chetan_bhagat/status/1387325380164558848 also quoted in https://tfipost.com/2021/05/while-liberals-promote-pfizer-vaccine-the-company-bullied-latin-american-nations-to-put-sovereign-assets-as-collateral/

“The best news of the day. Pfizer vaccine (a major trial was under progress) is 90% effective. Victory for science and humanity. Stock markets soaring across the world. Seems like the real deal this time.”

Chetan Bhagat

Source: — Chetan Bhagat (@chetan_bhagat) 2021 at Twitter https://twitter.com/chetan_bhagat/status/1325779100686970882

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