Quotes About Cecil Rhodes

#1. I went to study at Oxford University in the 1980s on an imperial scholarship instituted by Cecil Rhodes.

Richard Flanagan

#2. Q: What literary complexities do you find most interesting? That is, what do you like most to "solve," so to speak, as a novelist?
A: One wishes to create characters who will speak directly to the minds of comparative literature professors and intelligent book reviewers.

Gilbert Sorrentino

#3. Okay," I said,hoping I sounded confident, like taking the life force out of ghouls was one of my favorite hobbies, right up there with knitting and sudoku.

Rachel Hawkins

#4. Wherever you turn your eye - except in science - an Oxford man is at the top of the tree.

Cecil Rhodes

#5. So little done, so much to do.

Cecil Rhodes

#6. Oh, seriously
how could you be miserable with twenty thingamabobs AND a snarfblat?!

John Bytheway

#7. I feel accomplished knowing that I'm still the same at heart.

Kiana Tom

#8. Man begets, but land does not beget.

Cecil Rhodes

#9. Ask any man what nationality he would prefer to be, and ninety nine out of a hundred will tell you that they would prefer to be Englishmen

Cecil Rhodes

#10. Chickens, cows, and pigs in factory farms spend their whole lives in filthy, cramped conditions, only to die a prolonged and painful death.

Casey Affleck

#11. In order to save the forty million inhabitants of the United Kingdom from a bloody civil war, our colonial statesmen must acquire new lands for settling the surplus population of this country, to provide new markets ... The Empire, as I have always said, is a bread and butter question.

Cecil Rhodes

#12. If there be a God, I think he would like me to paint Africa British-Red as possible.

Cecil Rhodes

#13. To think of these stars that you see overhead at night, these vast worlds which we can never reach. I would annex the planets if I could; I often think of that. It makes me sad to see them so clear and yet so far.

Cecil Rhodes

#14. Why should we not form a secret society with but one object, the furtherance of the British Empire and the bringing of the whole world under British rule, for the recovery of the United States, for making the Anglo Saxon race but one Empire? What a dream, but yet it is probable; it is possible.

Cecil Rhodes

#15. Only alone can you go into eternity. Only alone can you feel the transcendental light. It is not a shared experience because if it is shared, you are down in duality.

Frederick Lenz

#16. All life is bound to a simple truth ... that time goes on, that in each person's life begins a tale, a tale that will either end in memory or in legend.

M.J. Chrisman

#17. Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.

Cecil Rhodes

#18. I have too much work on my hands and I would not be a dutiful husband.

Cecil Rhodes

#19. Did the sudden dark remind you that all of the things we expect to be there for us, to protect us, shelter us, provide for us, are fleeting and finite?

Jonathan Maberry

#20. Pure philanthropy is very well in its way but philanthropy plus five percent is a good deal better.

Cecil Rhodes

#21. People don't think their dreams amount to much, but when I ask them to examine them for common themes, they surprise themselves at how accurate they are! They see that their dreams have value.

Henry Reed

#22. I contend that we are the first race in the world, and that the more of the world we inhabit the better it is for the human race ... If there be a God, I think that what he would like me to do is paint as much of the map of Africa British Red as possible ...

Cecil Rhodes

#23. I'll be your foil, Laertes: in mine ignorance your skill shall, like a star i' the darkest night, stick fiery off indeed.

William Shakespeare

#24. I am not the sharpest knife in the knife-thing.

Jimmy Dore

#25. The real fact is that I could no longer stand their eternal cold mutton.

Cecil Rhodes

#26. I have found out one thing and that is, if you have an idea, and it is a good idea, if you only stick to it you will come out all right.

Cecil Rhodes

#27. Having read the histories of other countries, I saw that expansion was everything, and that the world's surface being limited, the great object of present humanity should be to take as much of the world as it possibly could.

Cecil Rhodes

#28. We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories.

Cecil Rhodes

#29. To be born English is to win first prize in the lottery of life.

Cecil Rhodes

#30. I think we take it for granted that if you are with your husband after 30 years, then he is the love of your life.

Sue Townsend

#31. This is a story of Africa. A pioneer woman's journey north was merely the beginning.

Jeffrey Whittam

#32. The first few feet of sea-level rise alone will displace more than 100 million people worldwide and turn all our major Gulf and Atlantic coast cities into pre- Katrina New Orleans - below sea level and facing super-hurricanes.

Joseph J. Romm