236 Quotes by Robert Harris

I have put out my books and now my house has a soul.

In the end, the only safe place to put a Trojan horse is outside your walls.

Humans have changed little over time. We think we’ve invented the modern world but they were making better speeches 2,000 years ago and grappling with issues of empire and terrorism.

Working 14 hours a day until you’re 55 and missing your kids growing up is not what I would consider a recipe for happiness.

How odd it is, thought March afterwards, to live your life in ignorance of the past, of your world, yourself. Yet how easy to do it! You went along from day to day, down paths other people had prepared for you, never raising your head – enfolded in their logic, from swaddling clothes to shroud. It was a kind of fear. Well, goodbye to that. And good to leave it behind – whatever happened now. – 214.

You cant build on a mass grave. Human beings are better than that – we have to be better than that – I do believe, don’t you?” Charlie McGuire, Fatherland.

Power depended on being in the room when the decisions were taken.

The fact is, as the proverb says, before you can cook your rabbit you first have to catch it.

The library was destroyed years back. My father-in-law used to say nothing burned so well on a cold winter’s night as a good book.