“Nature has granted man no better gift than the shortness of life. The senses grow dull, the limbs are numb, sight, bearing,… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
Writers and journalists tend to be simplistic about politics when, like all other areas of life, it's more complicated. — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
I've always just wanted to earn my living by writing. The best thing is to go into my study in the morning… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
Cicero smiled at us. 'The art of life is to deal with problems as they arise, rather than destory one's spirit by… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
The true currency of life is time, not money, and we've all got a limited stock of that. — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
There's nothing more interesting than the details of someone's life. — 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
“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 Copy Share Image
“They weren’t such bad fellows, Hartmann thought. He had mixed with their type all his life: patriotic, conservative, clannish. For them, Hitler… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“the struggle [for existence] almost invariably will be most severe between the individuals of the same species, for they frequent the same… — 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
I've always just wanted to earn my living by writing. The best thing is to go into my study in the morning… — 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
