China quotes

I'll love you dear, I'll love you Till China and Africa meet And the river jumps over the mountain And the salmon sing in the street, I'll love you till the ocean Is folded and hung up to dry And the seven starsgo squawking Like geese about the sky.

-W(ystan) H(ugh) Auden
  'As I  Walked Out One Evening'.

China asked for a sword, and we gave her a dull paring knife.

- (Henry) Styles Bridges
Of China's collapse to Communism. Quoted in David Halberstam The Fifties (1993).

Even if they're functioning out of ignorance, theyare still participating and must be suppressed. In China, even one million people can be considered a small sum.

-Deng Xiaoping
  Of pro-democracy demonstrators. In The Times, 5  Jun.

: Say, is it too early for a drink? : What's early about it? It's tomorrow in Europe and yesterday in China.

- Ruth Gordon
  MAXPOLLY1943  Over Twenty-One, act 3.

It is better to sniff France's dung for a while than eat China's all our lives. 405

-Ho Chi Minh originally NguyenThatThanh
   Attributed. Quoted in  J Facouture Ho Chi-Minh.

Let observation with extensive view, Survey mankind, from China to Peru.

- Samuel known as Dr Johnson Johnson
  The Vanity of Human Wishes, l.1^2.

Come you back to Mandalay, Where the old Flotilla lay: Can't you 'ear their paddles chunkin'from Rangoon to Mandalay? On the road to Mandalay, Where the flyin'-fishes play, An'the dawn comes up like thunder outer China 'crost the Bay!

- (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling
  'Mandalay'.

In China the bat is a symbol of happiness Not for me!

- D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence
  'Bat'.

   China has stood up.

-Mao Zedong or MaoTse-tung
  Proclaiming the establishment of the People's Republic of China,1 Oct.

   Rule1, on page1of the book of war is: 'Do not march on Moscow'†[Rule 2] is: 'Donot gofighting withyour land armies in China.'

- BernardLaw, 1stViscount MontgomeryofAlamein
  Speech in the House of Lords, 30 May.

China? There lies a sleeping giant. Let him sleep! For when he wakes he will move the world.

-Napoleon I
c.1800   Attributed.

He that but once too nearly hears The music of forfended spheres Is thenceforth lonely, and for all His days as one who treads the Wall Of China, and, on this hand, sees Cities and their civilities And, on the other, lions. 643

- Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore
  TheVictories of Love, bk.1.