A conversation about India between Ronny and his mother:

“‘We’re not out here for the purpose of behaving pleasantly!’

‘What do you mean?’

‘What I say. We’re out here to do justice and keep the peace. Them’s my sentiments. India isn’t a drawing room.’

‘Your sentiments are those of a god,’ she said quietly, but it was his manner rather than his sentiments that annoyed her.

Trying to recover his temper, he said, ‘India likes gods.’

‘And Englishmen like posing as gods.’

—from A Passage to India E. M. Forster