Quotes from Frederick Forsyth

Oh, I will go back to Century House and start again. And go back each night to my small flat and listen to my music and eat my baked beans. And you will go back to Nikki, my friend, and hold her very tight, and write your books and forget all this.

There is an aphorism that you cannot buy the loyalty of an Afghan, but you can always rent it.

sensed the insignificance of himself and the impertinent smallness of the boat, the loneliness that the sea can inspire. Those alone who have journeyed on the sea and in the sky, or across the great snows or over desert sands, know the feeling. All are vast, merciless, but most awesome of all is the sea, because it moves.

But the words did not come. They never do, when one needs them.

Caron for a few minutes agreed to be in his communications room at the time Caron suggested to take a person-to-person call from Lebel on a matter of great urgency. Van Ruys of South Africa was out

The eyes of the Englishman were open and stared back with frank candour. Except for the irises, which were of flecked grey so that they seemed smoky like the hoar mist on a winter's morning. It took Rodin a few seconds to realize that they had no expression at all. Whatever thoughts did go on behind the smoke-screen, nothing came through, and Rodin felt a worm of unease. Like all men created by systems and procedures, he did not like the unpredictable and therefore the uncontrollable.

based on the ordinary American's conviction of his God-given right to rape the globe's resources for his own comforts;

map. He had taken Morenz carefully through both rendezvous with Pankratin in the East, shown him the latest photograph of the Soviet general and explained that the man would be

Durante los ocho años de presidencia de George W. Bush, y los primeros cuatro de Barack Obama, el país desembolsó un billón de dólares para crear la estructura de seguridad más mastodóntica, engorrosa, duplicada y tal vez ineficaz que el mundo había conocido jamás.

A relieved Colonel O'Sullivan found himself at last surrounded by his fellow countrymen; next destination: his beloved U.S. of A.

of his companions pointed out the absence of black bars in the battery window and explained about charging. Then Abdelahi saw the spare phone lying on the Egyptian's

Shukran, sayidi, shukran.

tejido. Nada. El jersey de cuello de tortuga que había llevado el hombre fue tarea

there is no collective guilt,...guilt is individual, like salvation." [p.28]

It is cold at six-forty in the morning on a March day in Paris, and seems even colder when a man is about to be executed by firing squad.

Shannon's fingers itched to smash the man in the face. Inside his head he kept telling himself, Keep cool, baby, absolutely cool.

Moonlight turns even the most civilised man into a primitive.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

Yessir. A crutch, like one-legged men always have.

A journalist should never join the Establishment, no matter how tempting the blandishments. It is our job to hold power to account, not join it.

a woman of quite bovine stupidity and potato-like contours...

one can forgive even what they did. But one can never forget.

He said that it was not his job to ensure that his soldiers died for their country. It was his job to make sure the other poor bastards died for theirs. Understand?

There are some men whose crimes surpass comprehension and therefore forgiveness, and here is the real failure. For they are still among us