Quotes by : Robert Harris

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

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.......

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

Officially it was almost spring but someone had forgotten to pass the news on to winter.

For them, it was just an ordinary miracle.

Brave words. Easy to write when one was young and death was still skulking over a distant hill somewhere.......

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

A book unwritten is a delightful universe of infinite possibilities. Set down one word, however, and....

Right, you see that girl over there, the one in that group that keeps looking right at you?'...'Right,....