Frederick Forsyth

It is cold at six-forty in the morning on a March day in Paris, and seems even colder when a man is…

— Frederick Forsyth

The British have always coped without becoming a dictatorship.

— Frederick Forsyth

I'm very sceptical about some of the excesses that I regard the Milibands of this world are leading towards. When you think…

— Frederick Forsyth

“As he went down the steps to the street, something was troubling him. Something about the Vietcong officer, his face, the expression…

— Frederick Forsyth

The last of the lonely places is the sky, a trackless void where nothing lives or grows, and above it, space itself.…

— Frederick Forsyth

The Internet offers authors and their readers a new diversity of opportunities and freedom.

— Frederick Forsyth

“...a woman of quite bovine stupidity and potato-like contours...”

— Frederick Forsyth

He was one of the masters of the thriller and he really was one of the great signposts, because he took the…

— Frederick Forsyth

As ever with modern Britain, we are let down by a vast, over-manned, over-funded, hidebound, obstructive, box-ticking and incompetent bureaucracy.

— Frederick Forsyth

“The natives who saw him walking alone, and later brought him back to the town for burial, said he was whistling when…

— Frederick Forsyth

“… Shannon’s fingers itched to smash the man in the face. Inside his head he kept telling himself, Keep cool, baby, absolutely…

— Frederick Forsyth

“Because he was single, a number of girls made eyes at him, but his rebuffs were always polite and gentle. There were…

— Frederick Forsyth

“Yessir. A crutch, like one-legged men always have.”

— Frederick Forsyth

“Anything else from the fertile mind of...”

— Frederick Forsyth

On Foreign Secretary Robin Cook: If a man cannot keep a measly affair secret, what is he doing in charge of the…

— Frederick Forsyth

“It is strange how people always speak quietly in the darkness before dawn.”

— Frederick Forsyth

In the 66 years that I have been alive, there has not been one hour, of one day, of one month, of…

— Frederick Forsyth

The man in gray decided to take the Glen Suite of diamonds at midnight. Provided they were still in the apartment safe…

— Frederick Forsyth

“The Jackal was perfectly aware that in 1963 General de Gaulle was not only the President of France; he was also the…

— Frederick Forsyth

The stubbornness of a weak man should never be underestimated. The weak tend to be very stubborn when they've decided on something.

— Frederick Forsyth

“there is no collective guilt,...guilt is individual, like salvation.”

— Frederick Forsyth

“You must forgive them, my child. Forgiveness is a part of penitence.”

— Frederick Forsyth

It could well be argued that the continuing rights abuses of the present Iraqi regime, if it is allowed to survive, will…

— Frederick Forsyth

The British left intermittently erupts like a pustule upon the buttock of a rather good country. Seventy years ago it opposed mobilisation…

— Frederick Forsyth