“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
“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
My parents were interested in history and the world. My father read Graham Greene and Georges Simenon and was a strong trade… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
Politics? Boring? Politics is history on the wing! What other sphere of human activity calls forth all that is most noble in… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
If one tries to think about history, it seems to me - it's like looking at a range of mountains. And the… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
I am sure future historians will say the biggest and most astonishing change in politics has been the embracing of all the… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“like interviewing a new cleaner. Do you want someone who can give you the history of cleaning and the theory of cleaning,… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events. — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“How odd it is, thought March afterwards, to live your life in ignorance of the past, of your world, yourself. Yet how… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
Egyptologists, skilled in piecing together the papyri of lost civilisations, suddenly discovered that the same talent could be applied to working out… — 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 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
Cicero most reminds me of Harold Wilson. Both men knew how to keep the show on the road. — 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 is nothing… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“... 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
