Top Patronage Quotes

There is almost no country in Africa where it is not essential to know to which tribe, or which subgroup of which tribe, the president belongs. From this single piece of information you can trace the...

How is a magician to exist without books? Let someone explain to me. It is like asking a politician to achieve high office without the benefit of bribes or patronage.

Patronage Definition

(n.) Special countenance or support; favor, encouragement, or aid, afforded to a person or a work; as, the patronage of letters; patronage given to an author.

(n.) Business custom.

(n.) Guardianship, as of a saint; tutelary care.

(n.) The right of nomination to political office; also, the offices, contracts, honors, etc., which a public officer may bestow by favor.

(n.) The right of presentation to church or ecclesiastical benefice; advowson.

(v. t.) To act as a patron of; to maintain; to defend.

This week, Zuma was quoted as saying, 'When the British came to our country, they said everything we are doing was barbaric, was wrong, inferior in whatever way.' But the serious critique of Zuma is n...

We cherish reprobates, not for their cruelty, but for their little show of patronage.

Connection was the cement of the governing class.