All Robert Harris Quotes
- For me, as I suspect for most people, there comes a point where you have enough. If you've got £20 million, why keep going until… Another Vast
- Humans have changed little over time. We think we've invented the modern world but they were making better speeches 2,000 years ago and grappling with… Ago
- To say she was my girlfriend was absurd: no one the wrong side of thirty has a girlfriend… I suppose I ought to have realize… Absurd
- What is leadership, after all, but the blind choice of one route over another and the confident pretense that the decision was based on reason All
- Cicero smiled at us. 'The art of life is to deal with problems as they arise, rather than destory one's spirit by worrying about them… Advance
- To be brave, by definition, one has first to be afraid. Afraid
- By dawn he had surrendered, gratefully, to the old inertia, the product of always seeing both sides of every question. Always Seeing
- Of all human activities, writing is the one for which it is easiest to find excuses not to begin – the desk’s too big, the… Activities
- You can always spot a fool, for he is a man who will tell you he knows who is going to win an election. Always Spot
- People will perish, but books are immortal. (Pompeii) Book
- Power brings a man many luxuries, but a clean pair of hands is seldom among them. Among
- But clever people all make one mistake. They all think everyone else is stupid. And everyone isn't stupid. They just take a bit more time,… All
- But only a fool sails into combat with nature Combat
- Writers of fiction should stick to writing, not pop up on panel shows or as a talking head. Fiction
- My father left school at 14, my mother at 13. My father was clever and well-read. He took a newspaper, always watched the news, discussed… All
- One gains a double benefit in writing about the past, conjuring up how things might have been, and at the same time acquiring a different… Acquiring
- Within reason, I can write what I like and spend as long doing it as is necessary. That is a luxury beyond price. Beyond
- My parents were interested in history and the world. My father read Graham Greene and Georges Simenon and was a strong trade unionist and Labour… Father
- I am sure future historians will say the biggest and most astonishing change in politics has been the embracing of all the tenets of Thatcherism… All
- I see myself as the literary equivalent of a skilled lathe-operator, or a basket-weaver; a potter, maybe: I make mildly diverting objects that people want… Basket