Active Quote by Ben Macintyre

“When told to do something, he tended to “obey not the order which he had actually been given by a superior, but rather the…

— Ben Macintyre

“Martin Luther had written “Know, Christian, that next to the devil thou hast no enemy more cruel, more venomous and violent than a true…

— Ben Macintyre

“The policemen agreed they were living with a most peculiar fellow. One moment he was reading classical literature in the original French and quoting…

— Ben MacIntyre

“In a brilliant lecture written in 1944, C. S. Lewis described the fatal British obsession with the “inner ring,” the belief that somewhere, just…

— Ben Macintyre

I love telling stories, and am almost entirely unable to keep a secret.

— Ben Macintyre

“Before becoming headmaster of Eton, Claude Elliott had taught history at Cambridge University, despite an ingrained distrust of academics and an aversion to intellectual…

— Ben Macintyre

I think I would have been a hopeless spy. I love telling stories and am almost entirely unable to keep a secret.

— Ben Macintyre

“The word most consistently used to describe Kim Philby was "charm", that intoxicating, beguiling and occasionally lethal English quality.”

— Ben Macintyre

“Professor J. B. S. Haldane was one of the most celebrated scientists in Britain. A pioneering and broad-ranging thinker, he developed a mathematical theory…

— Ben Macintyre

“Far from being repelled by the duplicity around him, Elliott felt ever more drawn to the game of skulduggery and double cross. The Venlo…

— Ben Macintyre

“CAPTAIN RAMIREZ: “Ootunondumi rabo Caaguazu.” FRANCISCO: “Bokinmaginum sinking.” RAMIREZ: “Help.”

— Ben Macintyre

Libraries are not just for reading in, but for sociable thinking, exploring, exchanging ideas and falling in love. They were never silent. Technology will…

— Ben Macintyre