Empress Dowager Cixi Quotes

• Whoever makes me unhappy for a day, I will make suffer a lifetime.

  Empress Dowager Cixi

  Suffering, Unhappy, Lifetime

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• Now they [the Powers] have started the aggression, and the extinction of our nation is imminent. If we just fold our arms and yield to them, I would have no face to see our ancestors after death. If we must perish, why not fight to the death?

  Empress Dowager Cixi

  Fighting, Yield, Why Not

  "The Last Empress: The She-Dragon of China". Book by Keith Laidler, p. 221, January 21, 2005.

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• Your tail, is becoming too heavy to wag.

  Empress Dowager Cixi

  Tails, Wags, Becoming

  "The Siege at Peking". Book by Peter Fleming, p. 226, 1959.

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