27 Quotes by Cecil Rhodes

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

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.

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

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.

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.

So little done, so much to do..

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