1. Men are teapots and women are teacups. A teapot must have several teacups, but a teacup can't have several teapots. -Gu Hongming
2. Americans are broad and simple, but not deep; The British are deep and simple, but not broad; Germans are broad and deep, but not simple; The French are not as deep as the Germans, not as broad-minded as the Americans and simple as the British, but they have the sensitivity that these three peoples lack; Only China people have these four excellent spiritual qualities in an all-round way. -Gu Hongming
3. Many people laugh at my infatuation with being loyal to the Qing Dynasty, but my loyalty to the Qing Dynasty is not only loyal to the royal family of my family, but to the politics and religion of China, that is, to the civilization of China. -Gu Hongming
4. Why should we learn English poetry? That's because after you learn English well, you should teach China people the truth of being a man and the gentle and sincere poetry to explain those four foreign countries. Gu Hongming
5. My braids are tangible and can be cut off, but the braids in your heads are not so easy to cut off. ————— Gu Hongming