Quotes from Frederick Forsyth

The notion that the lobby at Langley is choked with the corpses of former agents gunned down by their own colleagues at the behest of genocidal directors on the top floor is amusing but wholly unreal.

You must forgive them, my child. Forgiveness is a part of penitence.

Your country is a constant reproach. It is rich to their poor, strong to their weak, vigorous to their idle, enterprising to their reactionaries, ingenious to their bewildered, can-do to their sit-and-wait, thrusting to their timid.

In the cavity were two handguns with ammunition clips.

Almost all great fortunes are based upon one cracking good idea and the guts to go with it

Viljoen) Voy a decirle una cosa, señor ingles: es usted un jagdhond muy bueno. - Gracias -- replico Preston. -¿Sabe usted que es un jagdhond? - Tengo entendido, que el perro de caza de Ciudad del Cabo es lento pero muy tenaz. Fue la primera vez en aquella semana, que el capitán Viljoen echó atrás la cabeza y soltó una carcajada.

But the up-front reason is that he was reclaiming rightful Iraqi territory. Look, it happens all over the world. India took Goa, China took Tibet, Indonesia has taken East Timor. Argentina tried for the Falklands. Each time, the claim is retaking a chunk of rightful territory. It's very popular with the home crowd, you know.

President Bush,' he said, 'and all the people around him, will act according to their upbringing. Which is based on the Judeo-Christian moral philosophy supported by the Graeco-Roman concept of logic.

Kuwait was always historically part of Iraq. Like Nehru invading Portuguese Goa.

Los proyectos mejor urdidos por ratones y por hombres, como el poeta escocés podría haber dicho, terminan a veces pareciéndose a la merienda de un perro chiflado. El

One of the aspects of the genius of Franklin Delano Roosevelt was that, although a convinced Democrat, he was quite prepared to use talent wherever he found it.

Not, perhaps, so elegant as your Berkeley Square, but sometimes, even here, you can hear a Nightingale sing.

The parents had tried to shelter their sons from the breakdown of the relationship between them, but it had become harder and harder, up till the point of impossibility.

dispatcher, Alfredo Suarez, had to check the weather.

things) in deep penetration into target territory, information-gathering and withdrawal unseen. Rumours had long persisted that part of London's extensive help to Lagos had been the presence of our Special Forces. Political denial had always been

It is the politicians who dream their dreams - sometimes dangerous dreams, (...). A top intelligence officer has to be harder-headed than the toughest businessman. One has to trim to the reality, (...) (Sir Nigel Irvine, p. 428-429).

Throughout its history the SS made a profit on its operations.

There were discrepancies. Sometimes

As he went down the steps to the street, something was troubling him. Something about the Vietcong officer, his face, the expression of frozen astonishment. At the end of the street passers-by turned to look at the young lawyer who threw back his head and laughed at the madness of Fate. Absently he rubbed his left hand where the one-time enemy's hot nut oil in the tunnel had scalded him.

Yes, sir.' 'Penetrating

One day, maybe not too long from now, the Russian empire will begin to crack. One day soon, the Romanians

It is strange how people always speak quietly in the darkness before dawn.

He wrangled late into the night with his senior tutor in theology over the concept of the doctrine of the lesser evil and the higher goal; that the end may justify the means and yet not damn the soul, providing the parameters of the impermissible are never breached.

Al fin y al cabo, los escritores son criaturas raras, y más si intentan ganarse la vida escribiendo.