“Now I am master of Shanghai.”
Quoted in "America Views China: American Images of China Then and Now" - Page 19 - by Jonathan Goldstein, Jerry Israel, Hilary Conroy - 1991.
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Iwane Matsui 9
Japanese general 1878–1948Related quotes
“My heart returns to me what I turn away. I am my own master but not always master of myself.”
The Powerbook (2000)
“I am an emperor of Manchu, become the master of all China.”
...谓本朝以满洲之君，入为中国之主...
Quote taken out of context by cutting off the first and last parts of the sentence to deliberately alter the meaning. In actuality, the complete quote is Yongzheng's rejection of this point of view and says 在逆贼等之意，徒谓本朝以满洲之君入为中国之主，妄生此疆彼界之私 (The seditious rebels claim that we are the rulers of Manchuria and only later penetrated central China to become its rulers. Their prejudices concerning the division of their and our country have caused many vitriolic falsehoods.) The quote was manipulated by anti-Qing Han nationalists posted on internet forums.
Manipulated
“Once, I was a master at recycling leftovers. Now I cultivate the art of simmering memories.”
Source: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
This may have inspired later lines of "A Challenge" from "Quatrains" by James Benjamin Kenyon, published in An American Anthology, 1787-1900 (1901) edited by Edmund Clarence Stedman:
Arise, O Soul, and gird thee up anew,
Though the black camel Death kneel at thy gate;
No beggar thou that thou for alms shouldst sue:
Be the proud captain still of thine own fate.
Invictus (1875)
“There is only one person who is master in this Empire and I am not going to tolerate any other.”
Speech at Düsseldorf (4 May 1891), quoted in Michael Balfour, The Kaiser and His Times (London: Penguin, 1975), p. 157
1890s
“Here in a little lonely room
I am master of earth and sea,
And the planets come to me.”
The Loom of Dreams, st. 1 (1900).
Tulsidas quoted in "Hindu spirituality: Postclassical and modern", p. 77