Mikado Quotes & Sayings

since my logic is simply lacking logic, and yet, I still keep doing it in order to satisfy some weird, twisted part of my mind. — Lena Mikado

I intend to see that justice is done by presiding, in the manner of the omnipotent Walter Mitty, as chief justice of a tribunal trying the case of those plotting further advances for the Chinese characters on an international scale. Emulating the operatic Mikado's "object all sublime... to let the punishment fit the crime," I hand down the following dread decree:

Anyone who believes Chinese characters to be a superior system of writing that can function as a universal script is condemned to complete the task of rendering the whole of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address into Singlish.
— John DeFrancis

In my hometown, the sky seemed endless ... but there was nothing to see. — Ryohgo Narita

Was the Black Rider my risk? — Ryohgo Narita

Maybe there's no limit to the kind of extraordinary things I can experience here. — Ryohgo Narita