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
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
I think that whenever a nation feels itself to be at is zenith, it starts to feel a creeping sense of anxiety. — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
One cannot see any world leader who has got a grip on the financial markets these days. They're too big, too fast.… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
Humans have changed little over time. We think we've invented the modern world but they were making better speeches 2,000 years ago… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
It is perfectly legitimate to write novels which are essentially prose poems, but in the end, I think, a novel is like… — 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
“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
