Shanghai/culture

Famous quotes containing the words shanghai and/or culture:

“It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily.”
—Jules Furthman (1888–1960)

“Let a man attain the highest and broadest culture that any American has possessed, then let him die by sea-storm, railroad collision, or other accident, and all America will acquiesce that the best thing has happened to him; that, after the education has gone far, such is the expensiveness of America, that the best use to put a fine person to is to drown him to save his board.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)