Conclave Quote by Robert Harris Download Open image ““From the Latin, con clavis : 'with a key'.”” — Robert Harris ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Conclave Key Latin
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“I would have thought even you could understand such a simple sentence, Father. Shall I repeat it in Latin for you?” — LJ Smith Copy Share Image
“With these meager scraps of Latin and the like, you may perhaps be taken for a scholar, which is honorable and profitable these days.” — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it. — Brander Matthews Copy Share Image
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“ Braccas meas vescimini !" I wasn't sure where the Latin came from. I think it meant 'Eat my pants!” — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“Men mistook measurement for understanding. And they always had to put themselves at the center of everything. That was their greatest conceit. The earth… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“He felt more human with his boots on. A man can face the world with something on his feet.” — 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
“To choose one's victims, to prepare one's plans minutely, to slake an implacable vengeance, and then to go to bed ... there is nothing… — Robert Harris 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, gait, even… — Robert Harris 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. This was… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“... unfortunately, freedom alone is not enough, by far. If there is a shortage of bread, a shortage of butter and fats, a shortage… — Robert Harris 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 you to… — Robert Harris 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 following day.… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“In the nine years since [Robert] Harris’s novel [Conclave] was published our culture has, if anything, become more enamored with certainty, not less —… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
