187 Quotes by Lin Yutang

The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

Art is both creation and recreation. Of the two ideas, I think art as recreation or as sheer play of the human spirit is more important.

All women's dresses, in every age and country, are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress.

We should not expect people to be good, but should make it impossible for them to be bad.

I do not think that any civilization can be called complete until it has progressed from sophistication to unsophistication, and made a conscious return to simplicity of thinking and living.

Simplicity is the outward sign and symbol of depth of thought.

All human happiness is sensuous happiness.

Best behavior means the same thing as the most uncomfortable behavior.

Business men who are busy the whole day and immediately go to bed after supper, snoring like cows, are not likely to contribute anything to culture.