“No one can really claim to know politics properly until he has stayed up all night writing a speech for delivery the… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power. — 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
Politics is never a victory, it's just the remorseless grinding forward of events. — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“Sometimes," he said, summing up the discussion with an aphorism I have never forgotten, "if you find yourself stuck in politics, the… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
What a heap of ash most political careers amount to, when one really stops to consider them! — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
I think it's very, very hard not to go slightly crazy if you're in the top in politics - especially if you're… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“But it is one of the tricks of the successful politician to be able to hold many things in mind at once… — 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
You know, you can be really quite subversive in popular fiction, which is capable of taking on big issues of politics, war,… — 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
“if you find yourself stuck in politics, the thing to do is start a fight—start a fight, even if you do not… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
I used to love politics. I can't say I do any more. All the fun has gone out of it. Each side… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“Cicero himself appeared, hand in hand with Tullia, nodding good morning to everyone, greeting each by name (“the first rule in politics,… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
Everyone thinks politics will just go on the way it is. I don't agree. — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“There are no lasting victories in politics, there is only the remorseless grinding forward of events.” — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“I found, for example, that Cicero was fond of repeating certain phrases, and these I learned to reduce to a line, or… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
Another of Cicero's maxims was that if you must do something unpopular, you might as well do it wholeheartedly, for in politics… — 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
