Empress Dowager Cixi Quotes

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?

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

Your tail, is becoming too heavy to wag.