“...by universal custom, your enemy is never more polite than when he is planning or has planned your destruction.”
― Shōgun
― Shōgun
“Yes. My ship'll be like her, he promised himself. She'll be trim and miniature and perfect like a Yoshitomo blade, and that's the best in the world, and just as dangerous. Next year she'll take a prize twenty times her own weight, like Mariko did at Osaka, ans she'll rip the enemy out of Asia.”
― Shōgun
― Shōgun
“Listen, if you want peace you must learn to drink cha from an empty cup.”
― Shōgun
― Shōgun
“My captain will help you be very quick. Within three sticks.” The unit of time was the time it took for a standard stick of incense to smolder away, approximately one hour for one stick.”
― Shōgun
― Shōgun
“Patience means restraining yourself. There are seven emotions, neh? Joy, anger, anxiety, adoration, grief, fear, and hate. If a man doesn’t give way to these, he’s patient.”
― Shōgun
― Shōgun
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