"A country of inveterate, backwoods, thick-headed, egotistic philistines" ....... Vladimir Ilyich Lenin 1909
"I believe we were all glad to leave New Zealand. It is not a pleasant place. Amongst the natives there is absent that charming simplicity .... and the greater part of the English are the very refuse of society." ....... Charles Darwin 1860
"If it would not look too much like showing off, I would tell the reader where New Zealand is." ....... Mark Twain 1897
"The first european to find NZ was a Dutch sea-captain who was looking for something else ... It takes its name from a province of Holland to which it does not bear the remotest likeness, and is usually regarded as the antipodes of England, but is not. Taken possession of by an English navigator, whose action was afterwards reversed by his country's rulers, it was only annexed by the English Government which did not want it, to keep it from the French who did."....... William Pember Reeves 1898
When George Bernard Shaw visited New Zealand a reporter asked him his impression of the place and, after a pause, Shaw is said to have replied: "Altogether too many sheep" ....... George Bernard Shaw 1934
"Terrible tragedy of the south seas. Three million people trapped alive." ....... Thomas Jefferson Scott
4 comments:
Funny! I'll be back to read your posts again!
Thanks for visiting my blog.
too many sheep in ephraim....christ wasn't accepted in his own land either
I love the one about the English keeping it even though they didn't want it just so the French couldn't have it - no doubt the absolute truth!
There's a wee quest for you on my blog btw.
Allmycke -thank you for visiting my blog! I hope to see you hear again.
Putz - we have an endless supply of sheep jokes - many not suitable to post on this blog.
Tismee- I wondered if you would pick up on the comment about the English!
Thanks for the award and quest - as usual I will need to think about it.
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