80 Geisha Quotes
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Famous Geisha Quotes
The first rule that a geisha is taught, at the age of nine, is to be charming to other women...Every girl in the world should have geisha training. — Diana Vreeland
The neck is kind of what's sexy in Japan, so you have to have the kimono a little bit back. It was just a whole different way of appealing to what was sexy. — Sayings
Glamor is just sex that got civilized. A pretty girl, tastefully posed in a scant costume, is even a sort of cultural achievement. — Dorothy Lamour
The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener. — George Balanchine
A ballerina takes steps given to her and makes them her own. Each individual brings something different to the same role. — Maria Tallchief
In real life, a lot of people at that level will have their kimonos made especially for them. — Colleen Atwood
A giraffe is so much a lady that one refrains from thinking of her legs, but remembers her as floating over the plains in long garb, draperies of morning mist her mirage. — Isak Dinesen
Ballet.something pure in this crazy world — Misty Copeland
A dancer, if she is great, can give to the people something that they can carry with them forever. They can never forget it, and it has changed them, though they may never know it. — Isadora Duncan
She looks like Wanderlei Silva in a dress and heels. — Dana White
A very beautiful woman hardly ever leaves a clear-cut impression of features and shape in the memory: usually there remains only an aura of living color — William Bolitho
I think I was a Japanese schoolgirl in another life. That's how much I love Hello Kitty. — Dakota Fanning
A pretty girl is like a melody. That haunts you night and day. — Irving Berlin
A queen keeps a court that is spoken about. A goddess keeps a court that is never forgotten. — Nalini Singh
Shave off your beard and wear a dress. You would be a great female impersonator. — Simon Cowell
Short Geisha Quotes
- At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy. — Arthur Golden
- For myself I don't like the geisha look. It's like a mask. — Ziyi Zhang
- If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was. — Arthur Golden
- He was like a song I'd heard once in fragments but had been singing in my mind ever since. — Arthur Golden
- A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course of victory. — Arthur Golden
- I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world. — Arthur Golden
- Even stone can be worn down with enough rain. — Arthur Golden
- I was really interested in geishas' work, and wanted to meet real geishas. — Ziyi Zhang
- Of course, a sign doesn't mean anything unless you know how to interpret it. — Arthur Golden
- We none of us find as much kindness in this world as we should. — Arthur Golden
Memories Of A Geisha Quotes
We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course. — Arthur Golden
I don't know when we'll see each other again or what the world will be like when we do. We may both have seen many horrible things. But I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world. — Arthur Golden
I never seek to defeat the man I am fighting, " he explained. "I seek to defeat his confidence. A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. Two men are equals - true equals - only when they both have equal confidence. — Arthur Golden
We don't become geisha because we want our lives to be happy; we become geisha because we have no choice. — Arthur Golden
Sometimes we get through adversity only by imagining what the world might be like if our dreams should ever come true. — Arthur Golden
I had to wonder if men were so blinded by beauty that they would feel privileged to live their lives with an actual demon, so long as it was a beautiful demon. — Arthur Golden
We must use whatever methods we can to understand the movement of the universe around us and time our actions so that we are not fighting the currents, but moving with them. — Arthur Golden
Watch for the thing that will show itself to you. Because that thing, when you find it, will be your future. — Arthur Golden
Now I know that our world is no more permanent than a wave rising on the ocean. Whatever our struggles and triumphs, however we may suffer them, all too soon they bleed into a wash, just like watery ink on paper. — Arthur Golden
If a few minutes of suffering could make me so angry, what would years of it do? Even a stone can be worn down with enough rain. — Arthur Golden
People Writing About Geisha
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
|---|---|---|
 Arthur Golden |
111 | 576 |
 Ziyi Zhang |
19 | 116 |
 Diana Vreeland |
140 | 895 |
 Sayings |
6895 | 535 |
 George Balanchine |
37 | 1800 |
 Colleen Atwood |
30 | 278 |
More Geisha Quotes
She paints her face to hide her face. Her eyes are deep water. It is not for Geisha to want. It is not for geisha to feel. Geisha is an artist of the floating world. She dances, she sings. She entertains you, whatever you want. The rest is shadows, the rest is secret. — Arthur Golden
Geisha because when I was living in Japan, I met a fellow whose mother was a geisha, and I thought that was kind of fascinating and ended up reading about the subject just about the same time I was getting interested in writing fiction. — Arthur Golden
I think the silhouette of the kimono costume will become engraved in people's minds. I do think there'll be lots of red accents in the near future. For me personally, I can't see myself flaunting around in a geisha uniform but it'll make me smile when I see what others do with it. — Colleen Atwood
A tree may look as beautiful as ever; but when you notice the insects infesting it, and the tips of the branches that are brown from disease, even the trunk seems to lose some of its magnificence. — Arthur Golden
There's nothing in Chinese culture that is an equivalent of the geisha. It's so different, so special to Japan. — Ziyi Zhang
There's nothing in Chinese culture that is an equivalent of the geisha. It's so different, so special to Japan. — Zhang Ziyi
The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains. — Arthur Golden
Can't you see? Every step I have taken, since I was that child on the bridge, has been to bring myself closer to you. — Arthur Golden
Waiting patiently doesn't suit you. I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape and flows around things, and finds the secret paths no one else has thought about. [Mameha] — Arthur Golden
My mother once told me I was like water. Water can carve its way even through stone. And when trapped, water makes a new path. — Arthur Golden
It was what we Japanese called the onion life, peeling away a layer at a time and crying all the while. — Arthur Golden
How many times already had I encountered the painful lesson that although we may wish for the barb to be pulled from our flesh, it leaves a welt that doesn't heal? — Arthur Golden
Was life nothing more than a storm that constantly washed away what had been there only a moment before, and left behind something barren and unrecognizable? — Arthur Golden
Water is powerful. It can wash away earth, put out fire, and even destroy iron. — Arthur Golden
It is confusing, because in this culture we really don't have anything that corresponds to geisha. — Arthur Golden
Sadness was a very heavy thing. — Arthur Golden
I have been presented with roles with demand not just a physical ability but mental disciplines as well. 'Memoirs of a Geisha' was not so much about physical exertion...it was much more graceful and contained than that. — Michelle Yeoh
I don't like things held up before me that I cannot have. — Arthur Golden
I went back to those graves not long afterward and found as I stood there that sadness was a very heavy thing. My body weighed twice what it had only a moment earlier, as if those graves were pulling me down toward them. — Arthur Golden
Well, a peach has a lovely taste and so does a mushroom, but you can't put the two together. — Arthur Golden
His face was very heavily creased, and into each crease he had tucked some worry or other, so that it wasn't really his face any longer, but more like a tree that had nests of birds in all of the branches. He had to struggle constantly to manage it and always looked worn out from the effort. — Arthur Golden
This is why dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes they consume us completely. — Arthur Golden
What I really wanted to know, though, was what it was like to be a geisha? Where do you sleep? What do you eat? How do you have your hair done? — Arthur Golden
I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha. — Arthur Golden
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