Quotes by : Robert Harris

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

Suicide leaves everyone feeling guilty.

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

People perish. Books are immortal.

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

Power brings a man many luxuries, but a clean pair of hands is seldom among them.

Nature has granted man no better gift than the shortness of life. The senses grow dull, the limbs are....

The destination of the journey could not be altered, only the manner in which one approached it - whether....

Jericho lowered himself carefully to his knees. He covered his eyes and moved his lips like all the others,....

Down in the cellar the Gestapo were licensed to practice was the Ministry of Justice called ‘heightened....