Lin Yutang
Lin Yutang
Lin Yutangwas a Chinese writer, translator, linguist and inventor. His informal but polished style in both Chinese and English made him one of the most influential writers of his generation, and his compilations and translations of classic Chinese texts into English were bestsellers in the West...
NationalityChinese
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth10 October 1895
CountryChina
mother rights should
Of the many rights of ladies, the best should be to be considered a mother.
misunderstood may
Nobody is ever misunderstood at a fireside; he may only be disagreed with.
wise philosophy believe
The world I believe is far too serious, and being far too serious ... it has need of a wise and merry philosophy.
dog soul strange
Somewhere in [China's] soul lurks the cunning of an old dog, and it is a cunning that is strangely impressive. What a strange old soul! What a great old soul!
facts world modern
China is the greatest mystifying and stupefying fact in the modern world.
blessed winter cities
Winter in Peking is insurpassable, unless indeed it is surpassed by the other seasons in that blessed city. For Peking is a city clearly marked by the seasons, each perfect in its own way and each different from the others.
people chinese grandfather
The humour of the Chinese people in inventing gunpowder and finding its best use in making firecrackers for their grandfathers' birthdays is merely symbolical of their inventiveness along merely pacific lines.
men judging dirt
It is not dirt but the fear of dirt which is the sign of man's degeneration, and it is dangerous to judge a man's physical and moral sanity by outside standards.
simple light age
The age calls for simple statements and restatements of simple truths. The prophets of doom are involved, those who would bring light must be clear.
dog winter men
Since the invention of the flush toilet and the vacuum carpet cleaner, the modern man seems to judge a man's moral standards by his cleanliness, and thinks a dog the more highly civilized for having a weekly bath and a winter wrapper round his belly.
men able fear-of-death
Few men who have liberated themselves from the fear of God and the fear of death are yet able to liberate themselves from the fear of man.
philosophy rose heathers
There is more hope in a heather rose than in all the tons of Teutonic philosophy.
people liberty demand
When we demand liberty of a person as a constitutional right, we are taking away from the officials their liberty to chop off people's heads.
men feelings salvation
Why should man bother himself so much about salvation, unless he has a feeling of being doomed?