179 Quotes by James Clavell

It's good for a man to get drunk once in a while. It releases all the evil spirits.

For a woman, old age is never pretty.

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.

Listen, if you want peace you must learn to drink cha from an empty cup.

Gods are like people. They believe anything if you tell them right way.

Only merchants have money to waste, and what are they but parasites who create nothing, grow nothing, make nothing but feed off another's labor?

Fallibility in a leader is very trying. Isn’t it? They spill so much of other people’s blood.

Perhaps that is why we love life so much, Anjin-san. You see, we have to. Death is part of our air and see and earth.

Oare ce-s nouriiDaca nu o justificare a cerului?Oare ce-i viataDaca nu o amanare a mortii?