Top 100 Quotes About Jeffrey Archer
#1. It is easy to club people together, but there are bound to be influences of authors you've read. I grew up reading fast paced authors such as Sidney Sheldon and Jeffrey Archer, but to say I'm one of them isn't true; my style is intrinsically my own.
Ashwin Sanghi
#2. I have twice met Jeffrey Archer, and on both occasions was struck by the firmness of his handshake - and the way he looked me straight in the eye, too.
Craig Brown
#3. Master storytellers like Jeffrey Archer and Arthur Hailey use simple language. But they manage to grab the attention of the readers right from page one. I'll consider myself a good storyteller the day people believe it's OK to be late for work or postpone deadlines just to finish reading my book.
Ashwin Sanghi
#4. 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
#5. We all, to some extent, reinvent ourselves. Jeffrey (Archer) has just gone to a bit more trouble.
Barry Humphries
#6. There'll always be a market for shit, of course. Just look at Jeffrey Archer! He writes like old people fuck doesn't he?
Stephen King
#7. The bestseller charts, a sure indicator of public taste, tell us with relentless frequency that Marian Keyes or Jeffrey Archer is a better author, by some dizzying six-figure sum, both in numbers of copies and money, than, say, J. M. Coetzee or Patrick White. Are they right?
Neel Mukherjee
#8. The last time I was in Spain I got through six Jeffrey Archer novels. I must remember to take enough toilet paper next time.
Bob Monkhouse
#9. If you take care of the pennies, the pounds will take care of themselves.
Jeffrey Archer
#10. What I have found is that real friends stand by you.
Jeffrey Archer
#12. War and Peace maddens me because I didn't write it myself, and worse, I couldn't.
Jeffrey Archer
#13. 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.
Jeffrey Archer
#14. I'm not involved in politics any more and they're quite right.
Jeffrey Archer
#15. It pains me to think how much you are worth now."
"I can't tell you that. If you can count it, you haven't got any.
Jeffrey Archer
#16. 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.
Jeffrey Archer
#17. It is often spur-of-the-moment decisions, sometimes made by others, that can change our whole lives.
Jeffrey Archer
#18. 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.
Jeffrey Archer
#19. We worked together, we studied together, we played together, but we slept alone.
Jeffrey Archer
#20. 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.
Jeffrey Archer
#21. Pride has never been a virtue. There are some occasions on which it is wise to remain silent.
Jeffrey Archer
#22. Never seek the wind in the field. It is useless to try and find what is gone.
Jeffrey Archer
#23. While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story.
Jeffrey Archer
#25. One worm who's happily found himself in a barrel of fresh apples,
Jeffrey Archer
#26. If you make a deal with a fool, don't be surprised when they act foolishly.
Jeffrey Archer
#27. At the end of my trial, I was rather hoping the judge would send me to Australia for the rest of my life.
Jeffrey Archer
#28. When does that moment come, Emma wondered, when mothers stop kissing their children, and young men start kissing their mothers?
Jeffrey Archer
#29. For the Indians, cricket is not a game, it's a religion.
Jeffrey Archer
#30. Very few people deserted me when I went to prison. They stayed loyal.
Jeffrey Archer
#31. If you have to pay a bill, always make it look as if the amount is of no consequence.
Jeffrey Archer
#32. women are often blessed with more common sense than men.
Jeffrey Archer
#33. the descent was going to be more difficult than the ascent.
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#35. I am currently doing about 30 charity auctions a year.
Jeffrey Archer
#36. 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?
Jeffrey Archer
#37. Only three things mattered about a hotel: position, position and position.
Jeffrey Archer
#38. I have experienced both triumph and disaster, and, to quote Kipling, have treated those two imposters just the same.
Jeffrey Archer
#39. Challenge every writ, and let it not be said of you, I walked a path but never left an imprint.
Jeffrey Archer
#40. Too frightened to set a precedent, but quite happy to pass the buck.
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#41. 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.
Jeffrey Archer
#42. Deakins is in my class but, frankly, he's in a different class.
Jeffrey Archer
#43. Good night, good night, parting is such sweet sorrow,' she whispered
'That I shall say good night till it be morrow,' Harry replied.
Jeffrey Archer
#44. But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education.
Jeffrey Archer
#45. Parking space - 44 Eaton ... ? He flicked it quickly back
Jeffrey Archer
#46. Actually, Sydney is my second favourite city on earth, I love Sydney, but this is the greatest.
Jeffrey Archer
#47. Edgar Hoover? I'd rather have him inside the tent pissing out than outside pissing in.
Jeffrey Archer
#48. The worst moment of any campaign is waiting for the sun to rise on the morning of the battle
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#50. No American must be allowed to die because he cannot afford to live.
Jeffrey Archer
#51. 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.
Jeffrey Archer
#52. All seemed to be in order. The boy had two legs, two arms, ten fingers, ten toes. Richard
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#53. - '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?
Jeffrey Archer
#54. When I was three, I wanted to be four. When I was four, I wanted to be prime minister.
Jeffrey Archer
#58. Doesn't ability to do the job come into the equation?"
"Of course not, you fool," said Jimmy. "This is politics.
Jeffrey Archer
#60. One of the advantages of real worth is that menial tasks can always be left to someone else.
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#61. Pengelly looked away. 'See you both around twelve,
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#63. And, as there wasn't enough breakfast to go round, she set out hungry on the long walk to the docks.
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#64. I have discovered with advancing years that few things are entirely black or white, but more often different shades of grey.
Jeffrey Archer
#66. 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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#68. You can often judge the character of a person by the way he treats his fellow men.
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#70. You've made yourself more available than a whore in a Las Vegas casino.
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#73. Well I think after leaving prison, and having written three diaries about life in prison, it became a sort of a new challenge to write another novel, to write a new novel.
Jeffrey Archer
#74. The fate of another man decided by a war they didnt declar
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#76. 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.
Jeffrey Archer
#78. In any conversation, it's often something that seems quite insignificant at the time that gives you the piece of information you're looking for.
Jeffrey Archer
#79. I'm passionate again about writing. This is important to me; it's got to be the comeback book.
Jeffrey Archer
#82. 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.
Jeffrey Archer
#83. 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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#85. If that guy had defended Pontius Pilate, he would have convinced the jury that he was simply assisting a young carpenter who wanted to buy some nails for a cross he was working on.
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#86. Like a blind man, unaware of race or religion, he quickly discovered that prejudice was often taught at the breakfast table.
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#87. A strong man who has known power all his life may lose respect for that power. But a weak man knows the value of strength.
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#88. 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.
Jeffrey Archer
#89. From around his neck started to undo the buttons on the front of his
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#90. 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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#91. 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?
Jeffrey Archer
#93. I was allowed to ring the bell for five minutes until everyone was in assembly. It was the beginning of power.
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#95. 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.
Jeffrey Archer
#96. heroin is diluted/cut before becoming a joey or bags.
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#97. An unguarded comment often proves every bit as valuable as a response to a direct question.
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#98. 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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#99. said Sloane, 'before Hakim Bishara buys the shares, giving
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#100. I think my attitude to human beings has changed since leaving prison.
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