“... he tried to visualise her apartment, but he couldn't do it, he didn't know enough about her.” — 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
If you spend too long trying to avoid death, you will be dead in at least one way. — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
What a heap of ash most political careers amount to, when one really stops to consider them! — Robert Harris Ashes Copy Share Image
“A dog looks up to you, a cat looks down on you, but a pig looks you straight in the eye.” — Robert Harris Archangel Copy Share Image
Power brings a man many luxuries, but a clean pair of hands is seldom among them. — 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
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
“From the subjective perspective, he may seem cruel, even wicked. But the glory of the man is to be found in the… — Robert Harris Archangel Copy Share Image
Leaders today are isolated by phalanxes of body guards. It's profoundly undemocratic, the way they have used terrorism as a means to… — Robert Harris Body Copy Share Image
“But it is one of the tricks of the successful politician to be able to hold many things in mind at once… — Robert Harris Politician Copy Share Image
That young man seeks opportunities to test his principles as readily as a drunk picks fights in a bar. — 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… — Robert Harris Archangel Copy Share Image
“A voice came out of the darkness. 'Don't make it so wide. It's not a grave. You're making work for yourself.” — Robert Harris Darkness Copy Share Image
“In the concealed darkness of the bag her fingers began to work her rosary, clumsily at first but with increasing dexterity -… — Robert Harris Archangel Copy Share Image
“Kelso's hangover had gone, to be replaced by that familiar phase of post-alcoholic euphoria - always in the past, his most productive… — Robert Harris Archangel Copy Share Image
Social mores change all the time. In the mid-1970s, it would've been astonishing, say, to see two men holding hands in the… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“She didn't say goodbye. She set off up the street, dodging the pedestrians, walking fast. He watched her, waiting to see if… — Robert Harris Archangel Copy Share Image
It's easy enough to get into power. You can make promises and try to be all things to all people. But the… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
I can't get very excited about the House of Commons these days because I don't feel the power is there. What is… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“any rash fool can be a hero if he sets no value on his life, or hasn't the wit to appreciate danger.… — Robert Harris Life Copy Share Image
“And people would believe it, thought Hartmann, because people believed what they wanted to believe – that was Goebbels’s great insight. They… — Robert Harris Goebbels Copy Share Image
Politics? Boring? Politics is history on the wing! What other sphere of human activity calls forth all that is most noble in… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“The foundations of Empire are often occasions of woe; their dismemberment, always.” — Robert Harris Archangel Copy Share Image
My greatest regret as a writer is that I've never been able to include as many jokes as I'd like. — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“There are occasions when losing is a victory, so long as there is a fight.” — Robert Harris Fight Copy Share Image
“You can't make sense of the present unless a part of you lives in the past.” — Robert Harris Archangel 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
“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
“We do not need a church that will move with the world, we need a church that will move the world!” — Robert Harris Church Copy Share Image
We live in an age of great jitteriness in the financial markets. And there's no doubt at all, I think, that the… — Robert Harris Age 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
If long hitting is the thing that causes the spectators to whistle through their teeth in wonderment, why not play tournaments up… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
