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.

June 10, 2025

1 year ago

The trouble with the Conservative Party is that it has not turned back the clock a single second.

April 6, 2025

2 years ago

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

November 18, 2025

11 months ago

Those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first call promising.

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