20 Quotes by Harold Robbins

Every man has his price. For some it’s money, for some it’s women, for others glory. But the honest man you don’t have to buy – he winds up costing you nothing.

Funny how you can go along for years hardly thinking about someone, then all of a sudden be so glad to see him.

It was either live in the shadow of the fear all our lives or, once and for all, break free of it and have all the things we wanted. That was the whole of it. We had to be free of the fear so that we could think of tomorrow, a tomorrow we had been afraid to look into because it looked so much like yesterday.

Hemmingway was a jerk.

I won’t leave any unfinished manuscripts.

I think I’ll be moving on tomorrow,” she said. “What for? Got anything better to do?” She shook her head. “No. But this isn’t my bag. You know that. These cars don’t make any noise.” “Someday all cars won’t make noise,” he said.

He picked up the telephone on his desk. “Bring in the Cord loan agreement and the check.” “You will note,” he said, “that although the loan is for three hundred thousand dollars, we have extended your credit under this agreement to a maximum of five hundred thousand dollars.” He smiled at me. “One of my principles of banking, Mr. Cord. I don’t believe in budgeting my clients too closely. Sometimes a few dollars more make the difference between success and failure.” Suddenly.

She’s been brought up without love and has no understanding of it.

But, darling, you’re my world, my life.” She kissed me. “And what will you do? You have no job – nothing. How will you live? I can’t bear to think of you going back to those cheap little jobs. Here with me you are safe. I can look after you, protect you. I can give you the world – anything you want.” I remembered something I had read. “What does it profit a man,” I quoted, “if in gaining the world he loses his own soul?