Frederick Forsyth famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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
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
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
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
The Internet offers authors and their readers a new diversity of opportunities and freedom.
-- Frederick Forsyth

#Opportunity #Diversity #Internet
The British have always coped without becoming a dictatorship.
-- Frederick Forsyth

#Becoming #British #Dictatorship
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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