Wilbur Smith Quotes
Top 72 wise famous quotes and sayings by Wilbur Smith
Wilbur Smith Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Wilbur Smith on Wise Famous Quotes.
Sometimes you are garrulous, Taita.' Pharaoh was less than captivated by my lecture on the palace architecture. 'Get on
There are people out there with an eye on my hard-earned cash who think that I am a pushover. I am not!
They say if you drink Zambezi water with your mother's milk, you are always a slave of Africa, and I am.
I write my books in my head, and not in a specific study with a view. The view is from my inner eyes.
The tranquilizers he had been given had worn off, leaving him with a drug hangover and a bitter grudge against the entire world.
I'm a feminist. The women in my books in recent years have been powerful characters and I love to see a woman with a cute bottom walking past.
The fact that I had been on the point of making a similar heroic gesture was quite ignored, and this only increased my irritation.
Patriotism is a myth conceived by those old rogues to draw us into the infernal game. Let them fight as they will, but we want no part of it.
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.
When I vacate this sack of old bones I won't care what you do with it. Bury or burn it but don't make much fuss.
My absolute favorite pieces are 'Rhapsody in Blue' and 'Begin the Beguine.' I play these when I am working.
Sometimes it is best for men not to attempt to interfere with destiny. Our prayers can be answered in ways which we do not expect and do not welcome.
Every one of them was armed, every one a trained soldier who had killed and would not hesitate to kill again.
They were built up to great expectations, and when these could not be met, they turned against those who made the promises.
They do say that socialism is the ideal philosophy-just as long as you have capitalists to pay for it.
He mad no moral judgements. He accepted mankind as he found it, and looked for the profit to be made from its strengths or weaknesses.
They say I'm worth either €200 million, €100 million, €50 million or €10 million, but that's something between God, the HMRC and myself.
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?
Yet such is the perversity of human nature that I hungered for what I could never have and dreamed of the impossible.
It's a strange paradox that a man gifted with too many talents can fritter them all away without developing a single one to its full.
There was always a pass through the reef where the sweet water inhibited the growth of the coral. As
I grew up in Rhodesia on my father's ranch and every year he used to take us on safari in some remote area of the wilderness.
If I have to die, then it's best to do so before I see everything I love, the land, the animals, the people, all of it destroyed.
I shot my first lion at the age of 14 when a pride threatened my father's livestock while he was away on holiday.
All my characters have got a big slice of me in them. A big piece of me, because it's my dialogue and this is the way I think and talk.
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.
My mother-in-law speaks not a word of English. I speak not a word of Tajiki. So I smile at her ingratiatingly and she fixes me with a beady eye.