The British have always coped without becoming a dictatorship.

- Frederick Forsyth

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…

- Frederick Forsyth

The British left intermittently erupts like a pustule upon the buttock of a rather good country. Seventy years ago it opposed mobilisation against Ad…

- Frederick Forsyth

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

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 i…

- Frederick Forsyth

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

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 wa…

- Frederick Forsyth

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 …

- Frederick Forsyth

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 h…

- Frederick Forsyth