“His scars and his tattoos were the medals of his lifetime. He was proud to wear them.” — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“If you are afraid of wolves, keep out of the woods. - J. V. Stalin, 1936 ” — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“ Quod volimus credimus libenter we always believe what we want to believe” — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“Death solves all problems - no man, no problem. - J. V. Stalin, 1918 ” — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“You can't make sense of the present unless a part of you lives in the past.” — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“He felt more human with his boots on. A man can face the world with something on his feet.” — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“Push out a bayonet. If it strikes fat, push deeper. If it strikes iron, pull back for another day.” — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“In the concealed darkness of the bag her fingers began to work her rosary, clumsily at first but with increasing dexterity -… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“To choose one's victims, to prepare one's plans minutely, to slake an implacable vengeance, and then to go to bed ... there… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“A comrade who deserts a comrade is a cowardly dog, and all such dogs should die a dog's death, comrade -” — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“From the subjective perspective, he may seem cruel, even wicked. But the glory of the man is to be found in the… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“Acceptance. That, he had learned in Russia many years ago, was the secret of survival. ... Accept it. Wait. Let the system… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“The most important thing in any endeavour is to get involved in the fight, and in that way learn what to do… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“History wasn't made without taking risks, that much he knew. So maybe sometimes you had to take risks to write it, too?” — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“She didn't say goodbye. She set off up the street, dodging the pedestrians, walking fast. He watched her, waiting to see if… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“Kelso's hangover had gone, to be replaced by that familiar phase of post-alcoholic euphoria - always in the past, his most productive… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“You are a bird of ill-omen, thought Kelso. You circle the world and wherever you land there is famine and death and… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“the likeness was stricking. Not exact, of course - no man ever looks exactly like his father - but there was something… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“She had the resigned indifference of extreme old age. Buildings and empires rose and fell. It snowed. It stopped snowing. People came… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“... unfortunately, freedom alone is not enough, by far. If there is a shortage of bread, a shortage of butter and fats,… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“He wondered what O'Brian would have been like in a real war, one in which he actually had to fight rather than… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“Have you ever seen fishermen when a storm is brewing on a great river? I have seen them many a time. In… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“What she needed was someone who would take her for the whole night. Someone decent and respectable, with an apartment of his… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“Time. Now here is a peculiar commodity, boy. The measurement of time. Best accomplished, obviously, with a watch. But, lacking a watch,… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“The foundations of Empire are often occasions of woe; their dismemberment, always.” — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“A dog looks up to you, a cat looks down on you, but a pig looks you straight in the eye.” — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“... he tried to visualise her apartment, but he couldn't do it, he didn't know enough about her.” — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
But clever people all make one mistake. They all think everyone else is stupid. And everyone isn't stupid. They just take a… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“He glanced around the reading room and closed his eyes, trying to keep hold of the past for a minute longer, a… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“Nothing is more important to a nation than its history. It is the earth upon which any society stands.” — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“Men mistook measurement for understanding. And they always had to put themselves at the center of everything. That was their greatest conceit. The earth… — Robert Harris Copy Share
“He felt more human with his boots on. A man can face the world with something on his feet.” — Robert Harris Copy Share
Cicero most reminds me of Harold Wilson. Both men knew how to keep the show on the road. — Robert Harris Copy Share
“To choose one's victims, to prepare one's plans minutely, to slake an implacable vengeance, and then to go to bed ... there is nothing… — Robert Harris Copy Share
“Nature has granted man no better gift than the shortness of life. The senses grow dull, the limbs are numb, sight, bearing, gait, even… — Robert Harris Copy Share
“A crock of shit,” Rick had called it. But actually this was worse. Shit, to quote Gore Vidal, has its own integrity. This was… — Robert Harris Copy Share
“... unfortunately, freedom alone is not enough, by far. If there is a shortage of bread, a shortage of butter and fats, a shortage… — Robert Harris Copy Share
It is perseverance, and not genius that takes a man to the top. Rome is full of unrecognized geniuses. Only perseverance enables you to… — Robert Harris Copy Share
“No one can really claim to know politics properly until he has stayed up all night writing a speech for delivery the following day.… — Robert Harris Copy Share
Does a name stick because it suits a man or does the man, unconsciously, evolve into his name? — Robert Harris Copy Share
“He glanced around the reading room and closed his eyes, trying to keep hold of the past for a minute longer, a fattening and… — Robert Harris Copy Share
The natural impulse of men is to follow and whoever has the strongest sense of purpose will always dominate. — Robert Harris Copy Share
