Quotes by Wilbur Smith

Wilbur Smith

A cynic had defined aid as simply the system by which poor white people in rich countries gave money to rich black people in poor countries to put into Swiss bank accounts.

Country

Rich Countries

White

A man follows the path laid out for him. He does his duty to God and his King. He does what he must do, not what pleases him. God’s truth, boy, what kind of world would this be if every man did what pleased him alone? Who would plough the fields and reap the harvest, if every man had the right to say, ‘I don’t want to do that.’ In this world there is a place for every man, but every man must know his place.

Boys

Kings

Men

Despite the fact that I spend a lot of time in London, Switzerland and New York, Africa is the place I know and love best, and my heart will always lie here.

Heart

Lying

New York

Every time one of my books sells a million copies in paperback, Pan Macmillan gives me a gold statuette of Pan. I have about 20 of them.

Book

Giving

Gold

Failure makes success so much sweeter, and allows you to thumb your nose at the crowds.

Failure

Noses

Thumbs

Herbert, my father, was born in Britain but went out to Africa in his teens to join his father and built up an 18,000-acre ranch in what was then Northern Rhodesia, providing work for the locals. He was my hero when I was a boy.

Boys

Father

Hero

I am a closet birdwatcher. I can identify Southern African species, but it irks me I can barely tell a jay from a blackbird in the U.K.

Blackbirds

Closets

Southern

I don’t want children. Why should I let some strange little monster into my life to destroy what to me is a perfect set-up?

Children

Monsters

Perfect

I know it’s politically incorrect but I enjoy things like the kick boxing and cock fighting.

Boxing

Enjoy

Fighting

I love the sea as much as I love the veldt of Africa.

Sea

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Bones

Book

Boxing

Boys

Care

Children

Closets

Color

Country

Creative

Details

Enjoy

Eye

Failure

Father

Fats

Feelings

Fighting

Firsts

Giving

Godlike

Gold

Heart

Hero

Ideas

Inspiring

Islands

Jesus

Kings

Kissing

Law

Lawyer

Loneliness

Long

Lying

May

Men

Monsters

Mothers Day

New York

Noses

Opportunity

Pay

People

Perfect

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Real

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Quotes by Wilbur Smith

Wilbur Smith

A cynic had defined aid as simply the system by which poor white people in rich countries gave money to rich black people in poor countries to put into Swiss bank accounts.

Despite the fact that I spend a lot of time in London, Switzerland and New York, Africa is the place I know and love best, and my heart will always lie here.

Every time one of my books sells a million copies in paperback, Pan Macmillan gives me a gold statuette of Pan. I have about 20 of them.

Failure makes success so much sweeter, and allows you to thumb your nose at the crowds.

Herbert, my father, was born in Britain but went out to Africa in his teens to join his father and built up an 18,000-acre ranch in what was then Northern Rhodesia, providing work for the locals. He was my hero when I was a boy.

I am a closet birdwatcher. I can identify Southern African species, but it irks me I can barely tell a jay from a blackbird in the U.K.

I don’t want children. Why should I let some strange little monster into my life to destroy what to me is a perfect set-up?

I know it’s politically incorrect but I enjoy things like the kick boxing and cock fighting.

I love the sea as much as I love the veldt of Africa.

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