179 Quotes by James Clavell

If you smile when you lose, then you win in life.

For the last time: ‘The law may upset reason but reason may never upset the law, or our whole society will shred like an old tatami.

Their souls touch and I seem to be more aware of God because of it.

Yes. My ship’ll be like her, he promised himself. She’ll be trim and miniature and perfect like a Yoshitomo blade, and that’s the best in the world, and just as dangerous. Next year she’ll take a prize twenty times her own weight, like Mariko did at Osaka, ans she’ll rip the enemy out of Asia.

Christ, it’s so good to be alive.

It’s unseemly to criticize without knowledge.

Why is she afraid?” he asked. “She’s not Anjin-san. Just a little nervous. Please excuse her. She’s never seen a foreigner close to before.” “Tell her when the moon’s full, barbarians sprout horns and fire comes out of our mouths like dragons.

As to Vietnam, no one here thinks President Kennedy can handle that either, much as we admire him personally.

How could such a pretty girl become known as the Hag, she wondered. It must be hateful to become old in face and body when you’re young at heart and still strong and tough – so unfair for a woman.