Peter Fleming (writer) - Quotations

Quotations

• "São Paulo is like Reading, only much farther away." – Brazilian Adventure

• "Public opinion in England is sharply divided on the subject of Russia. On the one hand you have the crusty majority, who believe it to be a hell on earth; on the other you have the half-baked minority who believe it to be a terrestrial paradise in the making. Both cling to their opinions with the tenacity, respectively, of the die-hard and the fanatic. Both are hopelessly wrong." – One's Company

• The recorded history of Chinese civilization covers a period of four thousand years.

The Population of China is estimated at 450 million.

China is larger than Europe.

The author of this book is twenty-six years old.

He has spent, altogether, about seven months in China.

He does not speak Chinese.

Preface, One’s Company,