# Quote — Susan Howatch, The Wheel Of Fortune

> 'Barbarity's everywhere, that's the truth of it. Absolutely anyone is capable of absolutely anything.'
>
> 'My dear Papa, I had no idea you were such a cynic!'
>
> 'That's not cynicism, that's honesty — as you well know, dealing with criminals as you do, seeing the human race continually at its worst.'

- Author: [Susan Howatch](https://www.leafyquotes.com/susan-howatch.md)
- Book: [The Wheel Of Fortune](https://www.leafyquotes.com/susan-howatch/the-wheel-of-fortune.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Susan_Howatch#Part_1:_Robert) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/susan-howatch/the-wheel-of-fortune/barbaritys-everywhere-thats

## More from this book

> Ghosts, unshriven souls, psychological hang-ups — they all exist in the mind to put people through hell — they're just different ways [...] of looking at a given situation.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/susan-howatch/the-wheel-of-fortune/ghosts-unshriven-souls.md)

> 'To be distracted is pardonable. To be incoherent is simply unobliging.'

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/susan-howatch/the-wheel-of-fortune/to-be-distracted.md)

> 'I deserve to be thought a coward. I am a coward. I'm just so bloody afraid of dying — of losing —'

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/susan-howatch/the-wheel-of-fortune/i-deserve-to-be-thought.md)