Top 100 Jeffrey Archer Quotes
#1. If you take care of the pennies, the pounds will take care of themselves.
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#3. When a book comes out I wonder if one person will buy it. It's agony. Of course it's stupid, but it's agony.
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#4. And I did wonder - because it's now three years ago since I left prison - whether there would come a time when I would forget it, or it would be in the past as anything else might be - no, it's there every day of my life.
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#5. It is often spur-of-the-moment decisions, sometimes made by others, that can change our whole lives.
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#6. Florentyna sent a directive to all managers in the Group that the finest suite in each hotel was no longer to be the Presidential Suite but was to be renamed the George Novak Suite.
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#7. We worked together, we studied together, we played together, but we slept alone.
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#8. We go on a lot in this country about offences being caused by drugs. The truth is just as many offences are caused by drink. And that should be taken into account.
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#9. Pride has never been a virtue. There are some occasions on which it is wise to remain silent.
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#10. Never seek the wind in the field. It is useless to try and find what is gone.
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#11. While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story.
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#12. One worm who's happily found himself in a barrel of fresh apples,
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#13. If you make a deal with a fool, don't be surprised when they act foolishly.
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#14. At the end of my trial, I was rather hoping the judge would send me to Australia for the rest of my life.
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#15. For the Indians, cricket is not a game, it's a religion.
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#16. women are often blessed with more common sense than men.
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#18. I am currently doing about 30 charity auctions a year.
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#19. You're so bossy." "Why is a woman always described as bossy, when if a man did the same thing he'd be thought of as decisive, commanding and displaying qualities of leadership?
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#20. Only three things mattered about a hotel: position, position and position.
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#21. I have experienced both triumph and disaster, and, to quote Kipling, have treated those two imposters just the same.
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#22. Challenge every writ, and let it not be said of you, I walked a path but never left an imprint.
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#23. He was becoming aware that there was no such thing as over-the-top with Lawrence Davenport, as long as you were talking to Lawrence Davenport about Lawrence Davenport.
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#24. Deakins is in my class but, frankly, he's in a different class.
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#25. But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education.
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#26. Parking space - 44 Eaton ... ? He flicked it quickly back
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#27. Actually, Sydney is my second favourite city on earth, I love Sydney, but this is the greatest.
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#28. The worst moment of any campaign is waiting for the sun to rise on the morning of the battle
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#30. No American must be allowed to die because he cannot afford to live.
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#31. If you have talent and energy, you're king. If you have only energy and no talent, you're still a prince. But if you have talent and no energy, you're a pauper.
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#32. - 'My lord, if a man cannot express his honestly held views in the Central Criminal Court, perhaps you can advise me where else he is free to state that which he believes to be the truth?
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#33. When I was three, I wanted to be four. When I was four, I wanted to be prime minister.
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#37. One of the advantages of real worth is that menial tasks can always be left to someone else.
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#38. Pengelly looked away. 'See you both around twelve,
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#40. I have discovered with advancing years that few things are entirely black or white, but more often different shades of grey.
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#42. Stop fussing, honey. It won't be the first time James has seen a man's stomach.
It's not the first time I've seen that one, thought James.
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#47. The fate of another man decided by a war they didnt declar
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#48. Making a million legally has always been difficult. Making a million illegally has always been a little easier. Keeping a million when you have made it is perhaps the most difficult of all.
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#50. I'm passionate again about writing. This is important to me; it's got to be the comeback book.
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#52. I learnt a lot about myself, I learnt a lot about other people and the problems they have. If I was lucky enough to live to a hundred, how I will feel about two per cent of my life being that way, I don't know.
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#53. I watched Hugo Barrington when he gave his evidence. The same self-confidence, the same arrogance, the same half-truths spouted convincingly to the jury, just as he'd whispered them to me in the privacy of the bedroom.
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#55. I think when you've lost an election by 179, there's going to be a period of time after eighteen years in government when you can't do anything right, and people just kick you for the sake of it, will never admit they voted Conservative.
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#56. From around his neck started to undo the buttons on the front of his
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#57. Don't ever make the mistake most New Yorkers do, of underestimating Chicago. They think it's only a postage stamp on a very large envelope, and they're the envelope.
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#58. How was it possible that he could handle Swiss bankers, West End impresarios, senior partners and seasoned solicitors, but was a quivering wreck in the presence of this man?
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#61. Never be frightened by those you assume have more talent than you do, because in the end energy will prevail. My formula is: energy plus talent and you are a king; energy and no talent and you are still a prince; talent and no energy and you are a pauper.
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#62. heroin is diluted/cut before becoming a joey or bags.
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#63. An unguarded comment often proves every bit as valuable as a response to a direct question.
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#64. Some clever children don't discover how bright they are until after they've left school,' continued Mr Holcombe, 'and then spend the rest of their lives regretting the wasted years.
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#65. said Sloane, 'before Hakim Bishara buys the shares, giving
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#66. I think my attitude to human beings has changed since leaving prison.
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#67. I do have a built-in advantage,' said Giles. 'I am my father's son.
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#68. When I was deputy chairman I could travel from Glasgow to Edinburgh without leaving Tory land. In a two-week period I covered every constituency in which we had an MP. There were 14. Now we have only one. We appear to have given up.
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#69. But I certainly made mistakes, for which I regret, I think most human beings in their lifetime make mistakes, mine ended up in two years prison - two very remarkable years from which I learnt a lot.
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#70. You see, the problem with being a bully is that on the flipside of that particular coin, you'll find the imprint of a coward.
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#71. I'm vulgar, I'm a populist. But isn't that what the mayor should be?
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#72. I spent my first three weeks there on a wing with 21 murderers. I met some very evil people there but also some men who'd had no upbringing, no chance in life.
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#73. I put £150,000 into the stage production of Grease and have got back £1.5 million so far. It has been a fantastic success.
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#74. Are parents always more ambitious for their children than they are for themselves?
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#75. Steve mellon had told him that love was for poor suckers, and Richard had written on his steamed-up shaving mirror that morning, 'I must be penniless.
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#76. Some people standby you in your darkest hour while others walk away; only a select few march towards you and become even closer friends.
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#77. So how did you manage to lose Lunsdorf?"
"He got away from Sergeant Roberts in Harrods."
"I sometimes wish I could do that when shopping with my wife," said the cabinet secretary.
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#78. The sign of a great man is how you handle defeat. - Old Jack
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#79. If you've got a problem, sleep on it before you make a decision you might later regret. Things always look rosier in the morning.
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#81. The agenda well in advance; the questions that would be asked, the replies that would be
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#82. I'm not taking any interest in politics. I'm not involved in politics in any way. My life is in writing now.
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#83. Clifton, in life you get what you deserve, no more and certainly no less.
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#84. The discipline required for athletics carried through to writing. You call it obsession. I call it discipline. By the way, I see nothing wrong with that.
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#85. I've been doing nineteen hours a day on London, nothing else, I mean this has been my whole life, and writing has been put on one side, and if I'm privileged enough to be the Mayor of this city, then I will not write again.
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#87. I feel I have had a very interesting life, but I am rather hoping there is still more to come. I still haven't captained the England cricket team, or sung at Carnegie Hall!
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#88. Whenever you analyse anyone who has had any success and they're in the headlines, you will find they are human and make mistakes. I'm certainly that and I've made a lot of mistakes.
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#89. The bastard. It's bad enough knowing he's stolen our money,but it's humiliating having to watch him spend it.
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#90. The English and the Americans were divided by a common language.
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#91. In the end, it all comes down to how you cope with the unforeseen.
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#92. A work of art is worth what someone will pay for it.
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#93. I prefer being up-and-coming. Gives us something to look forward to.
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#94. hockey field at Red Maids' School. By the time Emma had explained why she crossed the Atlantic despite the risks involved, they were both staring at her as if she'd just landed from
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#95. Are you all right, my luv?" asked a lady who had moved from the other side of the carriage to sit next to Old Jack. "Yes, thank you," he said, the tears streaming down his face. "It's just that I was released from prison today.
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#96. I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.
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#98. We all suffer in our different ways from being prisoners of birth.
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#99. The popularity of an individual in life often only manifests itself in death.
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#100. Well I certainly have learned and I hope I'm moving on and certainly two years of prison was a terrible punishment.
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