Chinese Writing

Famous quotes containing the words chinese and/or writing:

    “We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might call the faces at a large assembly of people a history of the human soul written in a kind of Chinese ideograms.”
    —G.C. (Georg Christoph)

    “I can hardly bring myself to caution you against drinking, because I am persuaded that I am writing to a rational creature, a gentleman, and not to a swine. However, that you may not be insensibly drawn into that beastly custom of even sober drinking and sipping, as the sots call it, I advise you to be of no club whatsoever.”
    —Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)