Author: Robert Harris

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• Tom Wolfe (1)
  • IN: Pompeii (2003) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: American superiority in all matters of science, economics, industry, politics, business, medicine, engineering, social life, social justice and, of course, the military was total and indisputable. Even Europeans suffering the pangs of wounded chauvinism looked on with awe at the brilliant example the United States had set for the world as the third millennium began
    FROM: Hooking Up, (2000), Book, US
• Pliny (1)
  • IN: Pompeii (2003) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: In the whole world, wherever the vault of heaven turns, there is no land so well adorned with all that wins Nature's crown as Italy, the ruler and second mother of the world, with her men and women, her generals and soldiers, her slaves, her pre-eminence in arts and crafts, her wealth of brilliant talent.
    FROM: Natural History, (1469), Book, Italy
• A. Trevor Hodge (1)
  • IN: Pompeii (2003) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: How can we withhold our respect from a water system that, in the first century A.D., supplied the city of Rome with substantially more water than was supplied in 1985 to New York City?
    FROM: Roman Aqueducts and Water Supply, (1992), Book, UK
• Mary Shelley (2)
  • IN: The Fear Index (2011) Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, Techno-thriller, British
    EPIGRAPH: Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge, and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow.
    FROM: Frankenstein, (1818), Novel, UK
• George Steiner (1)
  • IN: Enigma (1995) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: It looks as if Bletchley Park is the single greatest achievement of Britain during 1939-45, perhaps this century as a whole.
    FROM: Machines and the man, Sunday Times (23 October 1983), (1983), Article, US
• G. H. Hardy (1)
  • IN: Enigma (1995) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: A mathematical proof should resemble a simple and clear-cut constellation, not a scattered cluster in the Milky Way. A chess problem also has unexpectedness, and a certain economy; it is essential that the moves should be surprising, and that every piece on the board should play its part.
    FROM: A Mathematician's Apology, (1940), Essay, UK
• NULL (3)
  • IN: Imperium (2006) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: IRO, M. Tullius, the secretary of Cicero. He was not only the amanuensis of the orator, and his assistant in literary labor, but was himself an author of no mean reputation, and the inventor of the art of shorthand, which made it possible to take down fully and correctly the words of public speakers, however rapid their enunciation. After the death of Cicero, Tiro purchased a farm in the neighborhood of Puteoli, to which he retired and lived, according to Hieronymous, until he reached his hundredth year. Asconius Pedianus (in Pro Milone 38) refers to the fourth book of a life of Cicero by Tiro.
    FROM: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, Vol. III, edited by William L. Smith, London, 1851 [extracted], (1851), Book, UK
  • IN: Fatherland (1992) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: I swear to Thee, Adolf Hitler, As Fuhrer and Chancellor of the German Reich, Loyalty and Bravery. I vow to Thee and to the superiors Whom Thou shalt appoint Obedience unto Death, So help me God.
    FROM: SS OATH, (1925), Speech, Germany
  • IN: Enigma (1995) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: WHISPERS: the sounds made by an enemy wireless transmitter immediately before it begins to broadcast a coded message.
    FROM: A Lexicon of Cryptography ('Most Secret', Bletchley Park, 1943), (1943), Book, Germany
• Cicero (3)
  • IN: Imperium (2006) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Urbem, urbem, mi Rufe, cole et in ista luce viva! (Rome! Stick to Rome, my dear fellow, and live in the limelight!)
    FROM: Letter to Caelius, (-50), Letter, Italy
  • IN: Lustrum (2009) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: O condicionem miseram non modo administrandae verum etiam conservandae rei publicae! The preservation of the republic no less than governing it – what a thankless task it is!
    FROM: Cicero, speech, 9 November 63 BC, (-63), Speech, Italy
• Robert Harris (1)
  • IN: Selling Hitler (1986) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Most of the financial transactions concerning the Hitler diaries were conducted in Deutschmarks. In April 1983, when the diaries were published, the rates of exchange were: £1 = 3.76 marks $1 = 2.44 marks
    FROM: Selling Hitler, (1986), Author, UK
• Hugh Trevor-Roper (1)
  • IN: Fatherland (1992) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The hundred million self-confident German masters were to be brutally installed in Europe, and secured in power by a monopoly of technical civilisation and the slave-labour of a dwindling native population of neglected, diseased, illiterate cretins, in order that they might have leisure to buzz along infinite Autobahnen, admire the Strength-Through-Joy Hostel, the Party headquarters, the Military Museum and the Planetarium which their Fuhrer would have built in Linz (his new Hitleropolis), trot round local picture-galleries, and listen over their cream buns to endless recordings of The Merry Widow. This was to be the German Millennium, from which even the imagination was to have no means of escape.
    FROM: The Mind of Adolf Hitler, (1962), Essay, UK
• Adolf Hitler (1)
  • IN: Fatherland (1992) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: People sometimes say to me: “Be careful! You will have twenty years of guerilla warfare on your hands!” I am delighted at the prospect … Germany will remain in a state of perpetual alertness.
    FROM: Adolf Hitler, 29 August 1942, (1942), Speech, Germany
• Fritz Haber (1)
  • IN: A Higher form of Killing (1982) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: In no future war will the military be able to ignore poison gas. It is a higher form of killing.
    FROM: Professor Fritz Haber, winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, inventor of chemical warfare, 1923., (1923), Book, Germany
• Josef Stalin (1)
  • IN: Archangel (1998) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Death solves all problems - no man, no problem.
    FROM: quoted as saying, (1918), Conversation, Russia
• Jacques Marie and McBirney, Alexander Bardintzeff (1)
  • IN: Pompeii (2003) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: A strong correlation has been found between the magnitude of eruptions and the length of the preceding interval of repose. Almost all very large, historic eruptions have come from volcanoes that have been dormant for centuries.
    FROM: Volcanology (Second Edition), (2000), Book, France
• D. R. Shackleton Bailey (1)
  • IN: Dictator (2015) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Alive, Cicero enhanced life. So can his letters do, if only for a student here and there, taking time away from belittling despairs to live among Virgil’s Togaed People, desperate masters of a larger world.’
    FROM: Cicero, (1971), Book, UK
• Gustave Flaubert (1)
  • IN: Dictator (2015) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: ‘The melancholy of the antique world seems to me more profound than that of the moderns, all of whom more or less imply that beyond the dark void lies immortality. But for the ancients that “black hole” was infinity itself; their dreams loom and vanish against a background of immutable ebony. No crying out, no convulsions – nothing but the fixity of a pensive gaze. Just when the gods had ceased to be and the Christ had not yet come, there was a unique moment in history, between Cicero and Marcus Aurelius, when man stood alone. Nowhere else do I find that particular grandeur.’
    FROM: Gustave Flaubert, letter to Mme Roger des Genettes, 1861, (1861), Letter, France
• Pope John XXIII (1)
  • IN: Conclave (2016) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: ‘I thought it wiser not to eat with the cardinals. I ate in my room. At the eleventh ballot I was elected Pope. O Jesus, I too can say what Pius XII said when he was elected: “Have mercy on me, Lord, according to thy great mercy.” One would say that it is like a dream and yet, until I die, it is the most solemn reality of all my life. So I’m ready, Lord, “to live and die with you”. About three hundred thousand people applauded me on St Peter’s balcony. The arc-lights stopped me from seeing anything other than a shapeless, heaving mass.’
    FROM: Pope John XXIII DIARY ENTRY, 28 OCTOBER 1958, (1958), Book, UK
• Pope Paul VI (1)
  • IN: Conclave (2016) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: ‘I was solitary before, but now my solitariness becomes complete and awesome. Hence the dizziness, like vertigo. Like a statue on a plinth – that is how I live now.’
    FROM: NULL, (1963), NULL, UK
• Joseph Stalin (1)
  • IN: Archangel (1988) Novel, Fiction, Thriller, Suspense, Historical Fiction, Adventure fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Death solves all problems - no man, no problem.
    FROM: J.V Stalin, 1918, (1918), NULL, Russia
• Evelyn Waugh (1)
  • IN: The Ghost Writer (2007) Thriller, British
    EPIGRAPH: I am not I: thou art not he or she: they are not they.
    FROM: Brideshead Revisited, (1945), Novel, UK
• Gordon Farrell, James (1)
  • IN: Conspirata (2009) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: We look on past ages with condescension, as a mere preparation for us… but what if we’re only an after-glow of them?
    FROM: The Siege of Krishnapur, (1973), Novel, UK

Cited by

• Robert Harris (1)
  • IN: Selling Hitler (1986) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Most of the financial transactions concerning the Hitler diaries were conducted in Deutschmarks. In April 1983, when the diaries were published, the rates of exchange were: £1 = 3.76 marks $1 = 2.44 marks
    FROM: Selling Hitler, (1986), Author, UK