A Many-Splendoured Thing Quotes

“One should never condemn what one cannot understand.”
― Han Suyin, A Many-Splendoured Thing

“There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.”
― Han Suyin, A Many-Splendoured Thing

“But we...are more bound by custom than by law, and old customs die hard”
― Han Suyin, A Many-Splendoured Thing

“Politics don‘t stop love. He will say to her: "You are as beautiful as our new hydro-electric plant." And she will reply: "Comrade, how progressive of you.”
― Han Suyin, A Many-Splendoured Thing

“Hearsay was far more important than knowledge[...]for it is easier to appear knowledgeable than to become so.”
― Han Suyin, A Many-Splendoured Thing