Frederick Forsyth Quotes

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

  Frederick Forsyth

  Men, Weak Man, Stubborn

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The British left intermittently erupts like a pustule upon the buttock of a rather good country. Seventy years ago it opposed mobilisation against Adolf Hitler and worshipped the other genocide, Josef Stalin. It has marched for Mao, Ho Chi Minh, Khrushchev, Brezhnev and Andropov. It has slobbered over Ceausescu and Mugabe. It has demonstrated against everything and everyone American for a century.

  Frederick Forsyth

  Country, Years, Mugabe

  "While we have your attention, Mr President". www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2003.

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• The last of the lonely places is the sky, a trackless void where nothing lives or grows, and above it, space itself. Man may have been destined to walk upon ice or sand, or climb the mountains or take craft upon the sea. But surely he was never meant to fly? But he does, and finding out how to do it was his last great adventure.

  Frederick Forsyth

  Lonely, Adventure, Men

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• 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.

  Frederick Forsyth

  Morning, Men, Squad

  Frederick Forsyth (1995). “The day of the jackal ; The dogs of war”

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

  Frederick Forsyth

  Opportunity, Diversity, Internet

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

  Frederick Forsyth

  Let Down, Modern, Boxes

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

  Frederick Forsyth

  Men, Intelligence Services, Secret

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• 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.

  Frederick Forsyth

  Years, One Day, Alive

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• 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.

  Frederick Forsyth

  Istanbul, Drawing, Spy

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• The British have always coped without becoming a dictatorship.

  Frederick Forsyth

  Literature, Becoming, British

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• It could well be argued that the continuing rights abuses of the present Iraqi regime, if it is allowed to survive, will prove most distressing. This is beyond any doubt. But the West has been required to witness terrible scenes in China, Russia, Vietnam, East Timor, Cambodia, and many other parts of the world. It is simply not possible for the United States to impose humanity on a worldwide scale unless it is prepared to enter into permanent global war.

  Frederick Forsyth

  War, Russia, Rights

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• 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.

  Frederick Forsyth

  Past, Men, Midnight

  Frederick Forsyth (2011). “The Fourth Protocol”, p.9, Random House

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• 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.

  Frederick Forsyth

  Thinking, Years, Hysteria

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