My Country And My People Quotes

“For a Westerner, it is usually sufficient for a proposition to be logically sound. For a Chinese it is not sufficient that a proposition be logically correct, but it must be at the same time in accord with human nature.”
― Lin Yutang, My Country And My People

“humour is an essential part of Chinese nature,”
― Lin Yutang, My Country and My People

“Chinese have always been a proud people,”
― Lin Yutang, My Country and My People

“The result is a constant, unintelligent elaboration of the Chinaman as a stage fiction, which is as childish as it is untrue and with which the West is so familiar, and a continuation of the early Portuguese sailors' tradition minus the sailors' obscenity of language, but with essentially the same sailors' obscenity of mind.”
― Lin Yutang, My Country And My People