Best Robert Ludlum Quotes & Sayings

Learn always but never appear to be learning. — Robert Ludlum

I have always preferred conflict of individuals over the battle of extreme ideologies. — Robert Ludlum

Strangers should meet in unfamiliar areas. It's comforting. — Robert Ludlum

I loathe him. He stands for everything I hate in Washington. The right schools, houses in Georgetown, farms in Virginia, quiet meetings at their clubs. They've got their tight little world and you don't break in
they run it all. The bastards. The superior, self-inflated gentry of Washington. They use other men's intellects, other men's work, wrapping it all into decisions bearing their imprimaturs. And if you're on the outside, you become part of that amorphous entity, a 'damn fine staff.' (Alfred Gillette) — Robert Ludlum

There'll come a moment when you think you can make it, and you'll try. — Robert Ludlum

Nothing is so convincing as someone who's a bewildered injured party and lets everybody know it. — Robert Ludlum

Hate and love are essentially the same in that the person who loves is as easily manipulated as a person who hates — Robert Ludlum

Indiscriminate use among unintelligent leads to chaos. — Robert Ludlum

He may be a scholar, but he's first a man who believes - with certain justification - that he was betrayed by his government. — Robert Ludlum

Well, let me tell you, gentlemen, the games of the devil are not restricted to those confined to hell. Others can play them. — Robert Ludlum

Hope, perhaps the most dangerous of all emotions and perhaps the most necessary. — Robert Ludlum

Sundown. The distressed sloop, its mainmast shattered by lightning, its sails ripped by the winds of the open sea, drifted into the small, quiet beach of a private island in the Lesser Antilles — Robert Ludlum

Hope is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective. A lot of hope is dangerous. A spark is just fine as long as its contained. — Robert Ludlum

I mean, we're all trying to find out who the hell we are, aren't we? — Robert Ludlum

You appear to be a mass of contradictions," Dr Washburn said. "There's a subsurface violence almost always in control, but very much alive. There's also a pensiveness that seems painful for you, yet you rarely give vent to the anger that pain must provoke. — Robert Ludlum

Sleep is a weapon! — Robert Ludlum

You're on tenth base, I can't find you. — Robert Ludlum

Truth is neither joyful nor sad, neither good nor bad. It is simply truth. — Robert Ludlum

When the old men kill themselves, the cities are dying. — Robert Ludlum

REST IS THE BEST WEAPON..BATTLES WON AND LOST" ((page 209 ))

JACKAL CHALLENGING BOURNE : " Paris, Jason Bourne! Paris if you dare! Or shall it be a minor university in Maine. Dr,Webb? ((page 276))...

JACKALS WARNING, IN PRINTED WORDS IN A BLACK BUTCHER'S PENCIL ((at an country restaurant Epernon, Paris ))
"The trees of Tannenbaum will burn and children will be the kindling. Sleep well Jason Bourne — Robert Ludlum

there was no television in the Netherlands during the afternoons! — Robert Ludlum

Will not risk the patrol boats. The Surete has squadrons all — Robert Ludlum

The most precious jewels are not made of stone, but of flesh. — Robert Ludlum

Visions of one powerful scene after another parade across his inner screen, each exploding with drama and meaning — Robert Ludlum

The easiest thing in the world is to convince yourself that you're right. As one grows old, it is easier still. — Robert Ludlum

We're a couple of ciphers who got pushed around. We don't know what happened; just that we don't like it. — Robert Ludlum

I try as best I can to enter the realm of nuances of human behavior. — Robert Ludlum

It's called obfuscation in the interest of deniability. You might say it's our lingua franca. — Robert Ludlum

Robert Ludlum, all of them, write the absolute best they can. You can't tone it down. You just do what you do, and if it comes out literary, so be it. — Alan Furst

Lawrence Kelter is an exciting new novelist, who reminds me of an early Robert Ludlum. — Nelson DeMille

If your IQ was one point lower, you'd be a plant,' was Steve's only comment. — Robert Ludlum

I like reading a lot. Jeffrey Archer and Robert Ludlum are my favourite authors. I love making realistic cinema, so I read non-fiction more. — Madhur Bhandarkar

everything we knew, everything we felt!' 'Not quite everything,' he said, touching her cheek. 'I'm Jason to you, Bourne to me, because that's the name I was given, and have to use it because I don't have any other. But it's not mine. — Robert Ludlum

You know, Mr. Webb, you have two commands you use with irritating frequency. 'Move' and 'Let's go. — Robert Ludlum

Accountants and economists are natural enemies. One views trees, the other forests, and the visions are usually at odds, as they should be. — Robert Ludlum

For so many, death is a liberation from intolerable human conditions. — Robert Ludlum