Famous quotes containing the words shanghai, world and/or financial:
“It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily.”
—Jules Furthman (1888–1960)
“I was not at all apprehensive about ... disease ... [it] had no terrors for me. The thing I most feared in the world was hunger. That was something of which I had personal knowledge.”
—Madeleine [Blair], U.S. prostitute and “madam.” Madeleine, ch. 4 (1919)
“For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)