236 Quotes by Robert Harris

Politics? Boring? Politics is history on the wing! What other sphere of human activity calls forth all that is most noble in men's souls, and all that is most base? Or has such excitement? Or more vividly exposes our strengths and weaknesses? Boring? You might as well say that life itself is boring!

Another of Cicero's maxims was that if you must do something unpopular, you might as well do it wholeheartedly, for in politics there is no credit to be won by timidity.

What a heap of ash most political careers amount to, when one really stops to consider them!

It implies a slight failure as a writer that you are reduced to being a ghostwriter for the money.

If one first gives himself to the Lord, all other giving is easy.

To be brave, by definition, one has first to be afraid.

Golf requires only a few simple Rules and Regulations to guide the players in the true nature of its sporting appeal. The spirit of the game is its own referee.

I’ve always just wanted to earn my living by writing. The best thing is to go into my study in the morning and put words together.

The true currency of life is time, not money, and we’ve all got a limited stock of that.