Robert Harris Quotes

In a way I'm almost more rueful about the notion of having a non-ideological Labour party than I am about the personality of Tony Blair.

But only a fool sails into combat with nature

People will perish, but books are immortal. (Pompeii)

We live in an age of great jitteriness in the financial markets. And there's no doubt at all, I think, that the volume of computer-traded stocks has helped contribute to that.

The trouble with Lucious, " he said, putting his feet up on the desk after this cousin has gone, " is that he thinks politics is a fight for justice. Politics is a profession.

Officially it was almost spring but someone had forgotten to pass the news on to winter.

Civilization was a relentless war that man was doomed to lose eventually. - Pg. 195

For them, it was just an ordinary miracle.

...it has always been my temperament to prefer a tiny amount of the excellent to a plenitude of the mediocre...

Brave words. Easy to write when one was young and death was still skulking over a distant hill somewhere... - Pg. 82

The destination of the journey could not be altered, only the manner in which one approached it - whether one chose to walk erect or to be dragged complaining through the dust.

And the great thing about money is that it doesn’t matter when you harvest it. It’s an all-year crop.