Quotes About The Boer War

#1. The Victorians pioneered numbers of commercial rackets about which their descendants complain (the manufacturers of Bovril, it appears, were virtually official sponsors of the Boer War).

D.J. Taylor

#2. No government, no head of state, made any attempt to avert or arrest the Boer War.

Charles Albert Gobat

#3. The Caucus I joined in 1953 had as many Boer War veterans as men who had seen active service in World War II, three from each. The Ministry appointed on 5 December 1972 was composed entirely of ex-servicemen: Lance Barnard and me.

Gough Whitlam

#4. When I first met Mandela, we did not discuss anything of substance; we just felt each other out. He spent a long time expressing his admiration for the Boer generals and how ingenious they were during the Anglo-Boer war.

F. W. De Klerk

#5. The lounge is empty of bodies but full of debris: wineglasses, ashtrays, food wrappers, and a pair of silk boxer shorts over the Boer War rifle

David Mitchell

#6. Before the war, and especially before the Boer War, it was summer all the year round.

George Orwell

#7. I wanted to ask which war
the Boer or the Crimean? It was amazing how old people could talk about The War, as though that meant something.

John Christopher

#8. A lizard, resting in the shade of the anthill, studied Atkinson with interest, tilting its head this way and that. Atkinson studied it in return. A small, dull brown animal, usually it would not catch Atkinson's attention, but under the circumstances it became a thing of beauty.

Martin Marais

#9. In March 1915, at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, the British fired more shells in a single 35-minute bombardment than they had during the whole Boer War.

Saul David

#10. She placed a protective arm around him and drew him closer to her. Her expression was pensive, her lips drawn in a tight line and her brow furrowed. Kruger saw the shadow of grief pass briefly over her features.

Martin Marais