Robert Harris

“more enemies, more honour.”

— Robert Harris

“From the Latin, con clavis : 'with a key'.”

— Robert Harris

People perish. Books are immortal.

— Robert Harris

“Violence is Inevitable.”

— Robert Harris

Orwell has always been a huge influence on me.

— Robert Harris

Suicide leaves everyone feeling guilty.

— Robert Harris

But only a fool sails into combat with nature

— Robert Harris

“A nothing that said everything.”

— Robert Harris

History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events.

— Robert Harris

There's nothing more interesting than the details of someone's life.

— Robert Harris

You can't ever win the war on crime, or the war on terror. You can't repeal human nature.

— Robert Harris

“His scars and his tattoos were the medals of his lifetime. He was proud to wear them.”

— Robert Harris

“These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale -”

— Robert Harris

“Well, well—be careful of what questions you ask, for fear of what answers you may receive.”

— Robert Harris

“Gratitude", he said, quoting Stalin, "is a dog's disease.”

— Robert Harris

Writers of fiction should stick to writing, not pop up on panel shows or as a talking head.

— Robert Harris

Golf requires only a few simple Rules and Regulations to guide the players in the true nature of its sporting appeal. The…

— Robert Harris

Working 14 hours a day until you're 55 and missing your kids growing up is not what I would consider a recipe for happiness.

— Robert Harris

Writers and journalists tend to be simplistic about politics when, like all other areas of life, it's more complicated.

— Robert Harris

“Push out a bayonet. If it strikes fat, push deeper. If it strikes iron, pull back for another day.”

— Robert Harris

Tape is the archiving champ and has been for decades. Reliable, less expensive than disks and available in large-scale robotic systems that…

— Robert Harris

You can always spot a fool, for he is a man who will tell you he knows who is going to win…

— Robert Harris

My parents were interested in history and the world. My father read Graham Greene and Georges Simenon and was a strong trade…

— Robert Harris

Leaders today are isolated by phalanxes of body guards. It's profoundly undemocratic, the way they have used terrorism as a means to…

— Robert Harris

I can't get very excited about the House of Commons these days because I don't feel the power is there. What is…

— Robert Harris

It's easy enough to get into power. You can make promises and try to be all things to all people. But the…

— Robert Harris

“any rash fool can be a hero if he sets no value on his life, or hasn't the wit to appreciate danger.…

— Robert Harris

“the struggle [for existence] almost invariably will be most severe between the individuals of the same species, for they frequent the same…

— Robert Harris

“And people would believe it, thought Hartmann, because people believed what they wanted to believe – that was Goebbels’s great insight. They…

— Robert Harris

“I sense that I am dawdling in this narrative, having already reached my eighth roll of Hieratica, and need to speed it…

— Robert Harris

Politics? Boring? Politics is history on the wing! What other sphere of human activity calls forth all that is most noble in…

— Robert Harris

It is perfectly legitimate to write novels which are essentially prose poems, but in the end, I think, a novel is like…

— Robert Harris

“Right, you see that girl over there, the one in that group that keeps looking right at you?'...'Right, let's say I'm convinced…

— Robert Harris

“Well, good luck to you both. Rome will be the winner whoever is the victor'. Cicero began to move away but then…

— Robert Harris

“Men mistook measurement for understanding. And they always had to put themselves at the center of everything. That was their greatest conceit.…

— Robert Harris

“How odd it is, thought March afterwards, to live your life in ignorance of the past, of your world, yourself. Yet how…

— Robert Harris

“No one can really claim to know politics properly until he has stayed up all night writing a speech for delivery the…

— Robert Harris

“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

“Have you ever seen fishermen when a storm is brewing on a great river? I have seen them many a time. In…

— Robert Harris

“Surely the greatest mercy granted us by Providence is our ignorance of the future. Imagine if we knew the outcome of our…

— Robert Harris