Author of quotes: Robert Harris

Nature often gives people who rarely smile, one an amazing gift: when their face is still a smile, they were unrecognizable change.

When it comes to politics, most people turn into a herd.

He lived in a little house, strewn books, and for days were occupied only with reading and reflection, the most dangerous for human occupation, leading, in my opinion, for indigestion and melancholy.

The Golden rule of cross-examination reads: never ask a question if you are not known in advance the answer.

Only three things matter for the speaker: art, art, art and more art of speech.

If you want someone grateful to get a dog.

There is not a more painful duty than a friendship with a great man.

The main art in life is to solve problems as they arise, and not to lose heart in advance of scaring myself with the fact that once they will appear.

Authority gives the person many, but honesty and integrity rarely are among its gifts.

God is man helping man.

As for destiny, which he then spread - well, Attili really believed in it. Every birth chained to her like to a moving cart. And destination do not change. You can only choose how you will arrive - will come to you or you will drag dragged.

You'd think the gods have any care about how we live and who we screw.

People die. The book is immortal.

We are constantly tormented by her [the land of] iron, and wood, fire and stone. We dig into it and dump it in the sea. We hammer it and mine violaceae out her insides, and in order to put on someone's beautiful finger ring with a gemstone.