39 Quotes About Robert-harris

Nothing is more important to a nation than its history. It is the earth upon which any society stands.

His scars and his tattoos were the medals of his lifetime. He was proud to wear them.

Quod volimus credimus libenterwe always believe what we want to believe

more enemies, more honour.

We are born in a clear field and die in a dark forest.

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 sweeter in the world. - J. V. Stalin

The foundations of Empire are often occasions of woe; their dismemberment, always.

He glanced around the reading room and closed his eyes, trying to keep hold of the past for a minute longer, a fattening and hungover middle-aged historian in a black corduroy suit.

Kelso's hangover had gone, to be replaced by that familiar phase of post-alcoholic euphoria - always in the past, his most productive time of day - a feeling that alone was enough to make getting drunk worthwhile.