Tai-Pan
James Clavell
Top 10 Best Quotes
“If you're a sailor, best not know how to swim. Swimming only prolongs the inevitable—if the sea wants you and your time has come.”
“Gods are like people. They believe anything if you tell them right way.”
“If you smile when you lose, then you win in life.”
“I'm saying that some men are saints. Some are happy being meek and humble and unambitious. Some men are born content to be second-best.”
“I'll thank you to remember that not so many years ago men were burned at the stake just for saying the earth went round the sun!”
“love is like the sea, sometimes calm and sometimes stormy; it’s dangerous, beautiful, death-dealing, life-giving. But never permanent, everchanging.”
“Without trade the world will become what it was once—a hell where only the strongest arm and the heaviest lash was law. The meek will never inherit the earth. Aye, but at least they can be protected by law to live out their lives as they wish.”
“So easy now that Elder Sister has explained to her what all young girls in houses are taught—that with care and meticulous acting and tears of pretended pain and fear, and the final modest telltale stains cautiously placed, a girl can, if necessary, be virgin ten times for ten different men.”
“only the emperor among three hundred millions is allowed to use vermilion ink. Imagine that. If Queen Victoria said, ‘From now on, only I am allowed to use vermilion,’ as much as we love her, forty thousand Britons would instantly forswear all ink but vermilion. I would mysel’.”
“Godrot opium, he thought. But he knew that his life was inexorably tied to opium—and that without it neither The Noble House nor the British Empire could exist.”
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Book Keywords:
belief, orlov, freedom, virginity, offerings, trade, 1541, gods, law, swimming, 1966, deception, prostitution, futility, drowning, sailing, may-may, 1841
