“In a word, adventure to Chapman is the breath of life. Given adventure he has the courage to achieve the unbelievable.” — Ben MacIntyre Adventure Copy Share Image
I think I would have been a hopeless spy. I love telling stories and am almost entirely unable to keep a secret. — Ben Macintyre Almost Copy Share Image
“The fatal conceit of most spies is to believe they are loved, in a relationship between equals, and not merely manipulated.” — Ben Macintyre Flaws Copy Share Image
I love telling stories, and am almost entirely unable to keep a secret. — Ben Macintyre Secret Copy Share Image
“What is the use of living if you cannot eat cheese and pickles?” — Ben MacIntyre Food Copy Share Image
“CAPTAIN RAMIREZ: “Ootunondumi rabo Caaguazu.” FRANCISCO: “Bokinmaginum sinking.” RAMIREZ: “Help.” — Ben Macintyre Sinking Copy Share Image
If you put into one room everyone who considered themselves a Nietzschean, there would be a bloodbath. — Ben Macintyre Ifs Copy Share Image
“If this is Upper Silesia, one wonders what must Lower Silesia be like,” — Ben Macintyre Silesia Like Copy Share Image
“When told to do something, he tended to “obey not the order which he had actually been given by a superior, but… — Ben Macintyre Tended Obey Copy Share Image
“The policemen agreed they were living with a most peculiar fellow. One moment he was reading classical literature in the original French… — Ben MacIntyre Books Copy Share Image
“Martin Luther had written “Know, Christian, that next to the devil thou hast no enemy more cruel, more venomous and violent than… — Ben Macintyre Luther Copy Share Image
“Eccentricity is one of those English traits that look like frailty but mask a concealed strength; individuality disguised as oddity.” — Ben Macintyre Eccentricity Copy Share Image
“As a mark of opposition, many wore paper clips in their lapels. The paper clip was a Norwegian invention; the little twist… — Ben Macintyre Paper clips Copy Share Image
“It was beginning to dawn on me that most of the history of Paraguay revolved around white men chasing after other white… — Ben Macintyre History Copy Share Image
“The word most consistently used to describe Kim Philby was "charm", that intoxicating, beguiling and occasionally lethal English quality.” — Ben Macintyre Charm Copy Share Image
The broad outlines of the Double Cross deception have been known since 1972, when Sir John Masterman, the former chairman of the… — Ben Macintyre Accounts Copy Share Image
The Man Who Never Was,' by Ewen Montagu, remains the best book about wartime espionage written by an active participant - incomplete,… — Ben Macintyre Active Copy Share Image
“In a brilliant lecture written in 1944, C. S. Lewis described the fatal British obsession with the “inner ring,” the belief that… — Ben Macintyre Real power Copy Share Image
“As his own end approached, Elliott reflected on a life that had been “undistinguished, albeit mildly notorious,” and tremendous fun. He had… — Ben Macintyre Life Copy Share Image
“Before becoming headmaster of Eton, Claude Elliott had taught history at Cambridge University, despite an ingrained distrust of academics and an aversion… — Ben Macintyre Cambridge university Copy Share Image
“Professor J. B. S. Haldane was one of the most celebrated scientists in Britain. A pioneering and broad-ranging thinker, he developed a… — Ben Macintyre Biology Copy Share Image
“Well you stick the dynamite in the keyhole and you don't damage the safe, only sometimes you put a little too much… — Ben MacIntyre Copy Share Image
“Far from being repelled by the duplicity around him, Elliott felt ever more drawn to the game of skulduggery and double cross.… — Ben Macintyre Highly intelligent Copy Share Image
“Sam Brewer enjoyed discussing Middle Eastern politics with Philby; Philby enjoyed sleeping with his wife.” — Ben Macintyre Politics Copy Share Image
“Elliott and Philby existed within the inner circle of Britain’s ruling class, where mutual trust was so absolute and unquestioned that there… — Ben Macintyre Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
“Survival, to judge from the racks of guns, knives, gougers, stabbers and garrotters on display, tends to involve homicide.” — Ben Macintyre Homicide Copy Share Image
Deception is a sort of seduction. In love and war, adultery and espionage, deceit can only succeed if the deceived party is… — Ben Macintyre Adultery Copy Share Image
“Actually the only one of us who has been to Paraguay in the last thirty years is the Ambassador,” said the receptionist,… — Ben Macintyre Thirty years Copy Share Image
To disarm while being best armed, out of an elevation of sensibility-that is the means to real peace. — Ben Macintyre Armed Copy Share Image
“He urged freedom above all, and self-realization, and spurned “the contemptible sort of well-being dreamed of by shopkeepers, Christians, cows, women, Englishmen… — Ben Macintyre Christianity Copy Share Image
What if?' history is a tricky game, but there is no doubt that the senior planners of D-Day - including Eisenhower and… — Ben Macintyre British Copy Share Image
“The myth of Aryan dominance, initially an attempt to trace the lost language of the Aryas, began as a set of undemonstrable… — Ben Macintyre Natural selection Copy Share Image
Libraries are not just for reading in, but for sociable thinking, exploring, exchanging ideas and falling in love. They were never silent.… — Ben Macintyre Educational Copy Share Image
“He was a man who regarded his opinions, however briefly adopted, as revealed truth: he never backed down, or listened, or compromised.… — Ben Macintyre Regarded Copy Share Image
“War is too messy to produce easy heroes and villains; there are always brave people on the wrong side, and evil men… — Ben Macintyre Heroes and villains Copy Share Image
“Nietzsche called the ear “the organ of fear,” and believed that the sense of hearing “could have evolved as greatly as it… — Ben Macintyre Fear Copy Share Image
