List of Wilbur Smith Quotes

Let It Simply Be Said That We Know More About The Details Of The Hours Immediately Before And The Actual Death Of Jesus, In And Near Jerusalem, Than We Know About The Death Of Any Other One Man In All The Ancient World.

My Family Wasn't Terribly Affluent And Looked Upon Money Very Carefully As Something That Had To Be Saved, Not Spent. My Father Built The Ducting That Took Air Into The Copper Mines And Made About 6 D A Yard In The Thirties, Which Was Good Money Back Then.

The Really Disturbing Thing About Somalia Is That In A Country Where There Are Few Economic Opportunities, Pirates Are Perceived As Glamorous And Are Held In Awe By Young Boys Who Aspire To Their Lifestyle.

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.

I'm Not A Prophet I Can Only Use Historical Reality To Come To A View Of The Future, And My View Is That Africa Will Return To Being African And Not European. The Advent Of Colonialism Was Foreign To The Country Itself, But It Will Return To What It Was Before The Europeans Arrived.

I Shot My First Lion At The Age Of 14 When A Pride Threatened My Father's Livestock While He Was Away On Holiday.

I Read A Lot Of Biographies And Books With An African Background.

You Don't Turn Out As Many Books As I Did Then By Sitting Around, Being Cozy With The Family.

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.

The Best Cure For Racism Is To Have Somebody Shoot At You. Man, It Does Not Matter Then What Color The Arse Is That Comes To Save Yours-black Or White, You're Ready To Give It A Big Fat Kiss.

There's Nothing So Aphrodisiacal For A Woman As Money And Success.

People Don't Really Know Themselves Until They're 30. Like Most People Nowadays, I Went To University, Got A Degree And Wandered For A Bit. I Trained To Be A Chartered Accountant, Which I Didn't Much Enjoy, And It Was Only Slowly That The Idea Of Becoming A Creative Writer Gelled.