George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston Quotes
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Other countries have but one capital—Paris, Berlin, Madrid. Great Britain has a series of capitals all over the world, from Ottawa to Shanghai.
George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
As long as we rule India, we are the greatest power in the world. If we lose it, we shall drop straight away to a third-rate Power.
George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
Dear me, I never knew that the lower classes had such white skins.
George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
The miracle of the world... the biggest thing that the English are doing anywhere.
George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
The British people realise that they are fighting for the hegemony of the Empire. If necessary we shall continue the war single-handed.
George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
We are ordained to walk here in the same track together for many a long day to come. You cannot do without us. We should be impotent without you. Let the Englishman and the Indian accept the consecration of a union that is so mysterious as to have in it something of the divine, and let our common ideal be a united country and a happier people.
George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
Curzon, aged nine, in a letter home from school:
This omnibus business is not what it is reported to be. I hailed one at the bottom of Whitehall and told the man to take me to Carlton House Terrace. But the fellow flatly refused.George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
No one believes more firmly than we do that the safety and welfare of India depend on the permanence of British administration.
George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
Not even a public figure. A man of no experience. And of the utmost insignificance.
George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
[Frenchmen] are not the sort of people one would go tiger-shooting with.
George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
India has left a deeper mark upon the history the philosophy and the religion of mankind than any other terrestrial unit in the universe.
George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
