“Men mistook measurement for understanding. And they always had to put themselves at the center of everything. That was their greatest conceit.… — Robert Harris Learning Copy Share Image
If one first gives himself to the Lord, all other giving is easy. — Robert Harris Easy Copy Share Image
“He felt more human with his boots on. A man can face the world with something on his feet.” — Robert Harris Archangel Copy Share Image
Cicero most reminds me of Harold Wilson. Both men knew how to keep the show on the road. — Robert Harris How Copy Share Image
The financial world is at the cutting edge of high technology. — Robert Harris Cutting 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… — Robert Harris Archangel 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,… — Robert Harris Law of nature 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.… — Robert Harris Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“... unfortunately, freedom alone is not enough, by far. If there is a shortage of bread, a shortage of butter and fats,… — Robert Harris Archangel 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… — Robert Harris Genius 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… — Robert Harris Communication Copy Share Image
Does a name stick because it suits a man or does the man, unconsciously, evolve into his name? — Robert Harris Doe Copy Share Image
“He glanced around the reading room and closed his eyes, trying to keep hold of the past for a minute longer, a… — Robert Harris Archangel Copy Share Image
The natural impulse of men is to follow and whoever has the strongest sense of purpose will always dominate. — Robert Harris Impulse Copy Share Image
Having the urge to write a novel, especially if you've yet to be published, is like having a medical condition impossible to… — Robert Harris Books Copy Share Image
I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power. — Robert Harris Books Copy Share Image
“I guess you’re familiar with Moore’s Law? This states that the number of transistors that can be placed on an integrated circuit—which… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as a secret—not really, not in the modern world, not with photography and telegraphy and railways and… — Robert Harris Modern world 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 About Copy Share Image
“Officially it was almost spring but someone had forgotten to pass the news on to winter.” — Robert Harris Spring Copy Share Image
If long hitting is the thing that causes the spectators to whistle through their teeth in wonderment, why not play tournaments up… — Robert Harris Causes Copy Share Image
“He wondered what O'Brian would have been like in a real war, one in which he actually had to fight rather than… — Robert Harris Archangel Copy Share Image
“Have you ever seen fishermen when a storm is brewing on a great river? I have seen them many a time. In… — Robert Harris Archangel Copy Share Image
