409 Quotes by Pearl S. Buck

It is not well for a man to know more than is necessary for his daily living.

A hungry man can’t see right or wrong. He just sees food.

At heart a truly modest man, he had nevertheless the modest man’s pride in his modesty in the face of achievement.

In silence they lay close, without passion, but closer than passion could bring them they lay close.

But I am fearful of it because I hear she is learned in the Four Books, and learning has never accompanied beauty in women.

When I return to that house it will be with my son in my arms. I shall have a red coat on him and red-flowered trousers and on his head a hat with a small gilded Buddha sewn on the front and on his feet tiger-faced shoes. And I will wear new shoes and a new coat of black sateen and I will go into the kitchen where I spent my days and I will go into the great hall where the Old One sits with her opium, and I will show myself and my son to all of them.

I am always moved, with grateful wonder, by the goodness of people. For the few who are prying or meanly critical, for the very few who rejoice in the grief of others, there are the thousands who are kind. I have come to believe that the natural human heart is good, and I have observed that this goodness is found in all varieties of people, and that it can and does prevail in spite of other corruptions. This human goodness alone provides hope enough for the world. I have sometimes.

Drive out the tiger by the front gate and let in the wolf by the back gate,...

The mistakes of history bring relentless reprisals.