Daniele Vare Quotes

Italy, Diplomat
January 12, 1880 – February, 27, 1956.

Daniele Varè was an Italian expatriate diplomat and author, most famous for the China-set novel The Maker of Heavenly Trousers (1935) which was republished in 2012 by Penguin Modern Classics. He is also famous for the Laughing Diplomat (John Murray, 1938) his autobiography as Italian diplomat.

Also known as Author

The verb 'to darn' is explained in my pocket dictionary as follows: 'To mend by imitating the texture of the stuff, with thread and needle.' But this definition does not correspond to the work accomplished by good Chinese housewives. When they mend a sock, they do not try 'to imitate the texture of the stuff'. Their art makes no attempt at concealment: it even takes a certain pride in revealing itself.

Daniele Vare
Diplomacy is the art of letting the other party have things your way.

Daniele Vare
- Things
- Diplomacy
- Letting

He was a specialist in Feng Shui; that is to say, he was consulted as to the correct ubication and orientation of houses and temples, in relation to the spirits of wind and water.

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- House
- Water
- Relation
Western funerals: black hearses, and black horses, and fast-fading flowers. Why should black be the colour of death? Why not the colours of a sunset?

Daniele Vare
- Horse
- Funeral
- Sunset