- Chen: You are interested in China, sir?
- Missionary: Oh, I should say I am. I'm sailing next Friday.
- Chen: Forgive me if I am curious, but you go as a holiday-maker?
- Missionary: No, as a missionary.
- Chen: May I hope that your fortune may be better than some missionaries I have known.
- Missionary: Ah, but perhaps they lost the courage of their convictions. That makes a difference you know. Well, good morning. I'll give your love to China!
- Chen: Yes. Give my love to China.
- Lucy: 'Ow many children 'ave you got, Mrs Lossy?
- Mrs. Lossy: Nine. Or is it ten? Ten, dearie. Me old man's only got to drop me a postcard an' I'll be 'olding twins!
- Old Chinaman: There is a good road to heaven, but man will not walk on it. Hell has no gate, but man will bore through to get there.
- Chen: The earth is full of ugly things and we will only be happy on the day that we leave it, for there is nothing beautiful anywhere!
- Mrs. Reed: I wish I knew what it all meant.
- Mr. Reed: Oh, the usual Buddhist rigmarole: do unto others as you would be done by. Take the western world a message of peace. All that nonsense.
- Mrs. Reed: It doesn't sound like nonsense to me.
- Mr. Reed: Well, it is, old thing, from a practical point of view. You can't have a Chink barging off to Europe to convert the heathen whites. It really isn't done.