Quotes Library

September 19, 2025

Cricket civilizes people and creates good gentlemen. I want everyone to play cricket in Zimbabwe; I want ours to be a nation of gentlemen.

Robert Mugabe (1924–2019), African politician, prime minister of Zimbabwe, in Sunday Times, 26 February 1984, Jay p.267

Do you know why God gave cricket to the English? To teach them the meaning of eternity—the time that it takes for a typical cricket match.

Mr. Mugabe got over that plan pretty quickly.

April 6, 2025

11 months ago

In the end we are all sacked and it’s always awful. It is as inevitable as death following life.

May 9, 2025

10 months ago

No man is fit to govern great societies who hesitates about disobliging the few who have access to him

January 14, 2025

1 year ago

[On the popularity of Margaret Thatcher] The further you got from Britain, the more admired you found she was.

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