Frederick Forsyth Quotes

#1. On Foreign Secretary Robin Cook: If a man cannot keep a measly affair secret, what is he doing in charge of the Intelligence Service?

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#2. Position for his colleague in Secret Intelligence would be just the reverse. Sir Mark was having

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#3. The stubbornness of a weak man should never be underestimated. The weak tend to be very stubborn when they've decided on something.

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#4. 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.

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#5. There are several ways of making quick money but in the general list, writing a novel rates well below robbing a bank.

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#6. I'm very sceptical about some of the excesses that I regard the Milibands of this world are leading towards. When you think about it, it's all been incredibly rapid - a year, a year and a half. And it's not a concern: it's an obsession. It's something very close to hysteria.

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#7. dispatcher, Alfredo Suarez, had to check the weather.

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#8. The man in gray decided to take the Glen Suite of diamonds at midnight. Provided they were still in the apartment safe and the occupants away. This he needed to know. So he watched and he waited. At half past seven he was rewarded.

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

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

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#11. The specific murderers of the SS therefore hide even today behind the collective guilt theory.

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#12. 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.

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#13. As ever with modern Britain, we are let down by a vast, over-manned, over-funded, hidebound, obstructive, box-ticking and incompetent bureaucracy.

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#14. The technique of beaming a ray on to window glass and reading from the vibrations the conversation going on inside had been used against the American embassy in Moscow in the Cold War and required the reconstruction of the entire building.

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#15. The Internet offers authors and their readers a new diversity of opportunities and freedom.

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

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#17. there was no such thing as collective guilt. But we Germans have been told for twenty years that we are all guilty. Do you believe that?

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#18. In the 66 years that I have been alive, there has not been one hour, of one day, of one month, of one year, when there has not been a threat aimed at us.

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

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#20. The British have always coped without becoming a dictatorship.

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

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#22. He was one of the masters of the thriller and he really was one of the great signposts, because he took the spy thriller out of the gentility of the drawing room and into the back streets of Istanbul and where it all really happened, ... The Day of the Jackal.

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#23. I have spent twenty years trying to understand the look in her eyes. Was it love or hatred, contempt or pity, bewilderment or understanding? I shall never know.

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#24. There is no collective guilt, ... guilt is individual, like salvation. [p.28]

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