If I were an Englishman, I should esteem the man who advised a war with China? There lies a sleeping giant. Let him sleep! For when he wakes he will move the world.
China Quotes
China to be the greatest living enemy of my country. You would be beaten in the end, and perhaps a revolution in India would follow.
Yes, it is indeed a great wall. (at the Great Wall of China)
You shouldn’t stay here too long, or you’ll turn slitty-eyed. (to some British students in China)
The farms of Shensi may be described as slanting… There are few genuine mountains, only endless broken hills, hills as interminable as a sentence by James Joyce, and even more tiresome. Yet the effect is often strikingly like Picasso.
All Chinese are Confucianists when successful, and Taoists when they are failures.
Chinese is a language of fifteen thousand words and none of them in English.
China is a civilization pretending to be a nation.
When all the world was drinking blood From the skulls of men and bulls And all the world had swords and clubs of stone, We drank our tea in China beneath the sacred spice-trees, And heard the curled waves of the harbor moan. And this gray bird, in Love’s first spring, With a bright-bronze breast […]
People say airily, “The Chinese are so backward poor things;” my advice to such people is to go and see. They will find that the Chinese arrived at a certain point of civilisation centuries ago and remained there because they saw nothing in the progress of other countries which tempted them to imitate it. They […]
