Cecil Rhodes Quotations

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

Man begets, but land does not beget.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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