List of Cecil Rhodes Quotes

I Have Too Much Work On My Hands And I Would Not Be A Dutiful Husband.

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.

Man Begets, But Land Does Not Beget.

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.

Pure Philanthropy Is Very Well In Its Way But Philanthropy Plus Five Percent Is A Good Deal Better.

You Are An Englishman, And Have Subsequently Drawn The Greatest 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 40,000,000 Inhabitants Of The United Kingdom From A Bloody Civil War, We Colonial Statesmen Must Acquire New Lands To Settle The Surplus Population, To Provide New Markets. [...] The Empire, As I Have Always Said, Is A Bread And Butter Question.

So Little Done, So Much To Do.

If There Be A God, I Think He Would Like Me To Paint Africa British-red As Possible.

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.