Japanese Descent

Famous quotes containing the words japanese and/or descent:

“In fact, the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people.... The Japanese people are ... simply a mode of style, an exquisite fancy of art.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

“My life has been one long descent into respectability.”
—Mandy Rice-Davies (b. 1944)