The Man From St. Petersburg
Ken Follett
Top 10 Best Quotes
“the ultimate truth about oppression: that it works by turning its victims against each other instead of against their oppressors. He”
“Growing up is learning to deceive.”
“A man who has no fear can do anything he wants, Feliks thought. He had learned that lesson eleven years ago, in a railway siding outside Omsk. It had been snowing . . .”
“... sentiments which Feliks had already come to recognise as being characteristic of The Times, which would have described the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse as strong rulers who could do nothing but good for the stability of the international situation.”
“take those young men in the springtime of their lives and march them in front of cannon to be shot to pieces or maimed for ever, no doubt for the very best reasons of international diplomacy.”
“people always credit Prime Ministers with more brains than they’ve got.”
“The relation of love is not the same as the relation of worship. One worships a god. Only human beings can be loved. When we worship a woman we cannot love her. Then, when we discover she is not a god, we hate her.”
“She shrugged. ‘Russians are so unpredictable.”
“Perhaps. Still, somehow Russia must join the twentieth century. Either we, the nobility, must do it, or the people will destroy us and do it themselves.”
“Englishmen did not speak to strangers on trains ...”
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