Jeffrey Archer Quotes

Some people standby you in your darkest hour while others walk away; only a select few march towards you and become even closer friends.

We all make mistakes but one has to move on.

I have discovered with advancing years that few things are entirely black or white, but more often different shades of grey.

If you make a deal with a fool, don't be surprised when they act foolishly.

we all suffer in our different ways from being prisoners of birth.

I find I don't learn a lot while I'm talking

While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story.

Are parents always more ambitious for their children than they are for themselves?

Fortune favours the brave

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.

There are defining moments in one's life when you learn about yourself, and you deposit that knowledge in the experience account, so you can draw on it at some later date.

You can often judge the character of a person by the way he treats his fellow men.

If you have to pay a bill, always make it look as if the amount is of no consequence.

The sign of a great man is how you handle defeat. - Old Jack

The worst moment of any campaign is waiting for the sun to rise on the morning of the battle

إن أغلب الناس قد عاشوا حدثًا واحدًا على الأقل خلال حياتهم يعد حدثًا فريدًا حقًا، ويصلح تمامًا لصياغته في قصة قصيرة.

A work of art is worth what someone will pay for it.

Sometimes an abundance of sympathy can be more overwhelming than solitude

Time spent on preparation is seldom wasted.

With torture ,as with making love, foreplay is the all important factor

if you take care of the pennies, the pounds will take care of themselves.

Good night, good night, parting is such sweet sorrow,' she whispered 'That I shall say good night till it be morrow,' Harry replied.

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.

Only three things mattered about a hotel: position, position and position.

No time like the present

The bastard. It's bad enough knowing he's stolen our money,but it's humiliating having to watch him spend it.

only a fool blames the messenger.

He tells a story, and that's what I like. Does this fella tell a story? He doesn't spend twenty pages describing the colour of the sky?' 'He hasn't so far.' 'Good. Jeffrey Archer never talks about the colour of the sky and I like that in a writer. I'd say Jeffrey Archer has never even looked up at the sky his entire life.' 'Especially now that he's in prison,' I suggested.

Are you still with this man? On no, She sniffed. I realized pretty quickly I couldn't marry a man without a bookshelf. No bookshelf? In his house. Not even a little one in his loo for the Reader's Digest. Many people in this country don't read books. He didn't have one book. Not even a true crime. Or a Jeffrey Archer. I mean, what does that tell you about someone's character?

There'll always be a market for shit, of course. Just look at Jeffrey Archer! He writes like old people fuck doesn't he?

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?

Then one morning she woke to find him sitting on the edge of the bed, staring at her. She blinked at him. ‘Is something wrong, darling?’ ‘No. I’m just looking at my greatest asset, and making sure I never take it for granted.

- '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?

Sometimes it’s an advantage to be disadvantaged,

Never seek the wind in the field—it is useless to try and find what is gone.” Your

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.

An unguarded comment often proves every bit as valuable as a response to a direct question.

It's one of the ironies of mountaineering,' said Young, 'that grown men are happy to spend months preparing for a climb, weeks rehearsing and honing their skills, and at least a day attempting to reach the summit. And then, having achieved their goal, they spend just a few moments enjoying the experience, along with one or two equally certifiable companions who have little in common other than wanting to do it all again, but a little higher.

Here was a man, when comes such another?

A man lost to himself is lost to all.

Pride has never been a virtue. There are some occasions on which it is wise to remain silent.

The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

Never seek the wind in the field—it is useless to try and find what is gone.

Never seek the wind in the field. It is useless to try and find what is gone.

you take care of the pennies, the pounds will take care of themselves.

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.

The popularity of an individual in life often only manifests itself in death.

إن الفارق الوحيد بين السيد النبيل و بين القرصان الحقيقي هو مع من يتقاسم كل منهما غنائمه

twelve

In the end, it all comes down to how you cope with the unforeseen.

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.

For the Indians, cricket is not a game, it’s a religion.

If you've struck gold, why go in search of brass?

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.

Stevie, don't get cross, get even.

He was, in the words of H. H. Munro, a man whose looks made it possible for women to forgive any other trifling inadequacies.

إن الثراء ليس غاية الجميع

إن سعيت لإخفاء أصلك فلن يعود عليك ذلك إلا بالندم

One of the advantages of real worth is that menial tasks can always be left to someone else.

The English are the biggest snobs on earth Harry.

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.

from around his neck started to undo the buttons on the front of his

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.

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?

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.

heroin is diluted/cut before becoming a joey or bags.

Remember what Lyndon Johnson said about J. Edgar Hoover? I’d rather have him inside the tent pissing out than outside pissing in.

Clifton, in life you get what you deserve, no more and certainly no less.

coffin nails. Once Stan had left for

القاعدة الذهبية في السجن إن حدث وانتهى بك الأمر خلف قضبانه هي ألا تسأل أي سجين عما أدى به إلى هناك ، إلا إذا أثار هو الموضوع

يجب أن تعرض منتجاتك لا أن تبقى على أمل أن يراها الزبائن مصادفة

if you make a deal with a fool, don’t be surprised when they act foolishly.

Perhaps it’s appallingly written, boring, without merit and unworthy of our time, but at least let us be the judge of that.

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.

One worm who’s happily found himself in a barrel of fresh apples,

I find I don’t learn a lot while I’m talking,

stop for a drink, which made him feel

You’ll remember Mark Twain’s comment about his father,” said Beth as they stepped off the bus. “‘When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he’d learned in seven years.

Jeffrey Archer's political career ended with his conviction and subsequent imprisonment (2001–2003) for perjury and perverting the course of justice, which followed his second resignation. He even suborned perjury from his wife and others. To buy books from this conman and criminal is a SIN.

We all, to some extent, reinvent ourselves. Jeffrey (Archer) has just gone to a bit more trouble.

Carmen Bristoliense.

Some people stand by you in your darkest hour, while others walk away; only a select few march toward you and become even closer friends.

sending

إياك أن تتخلى عن حرصك

المعلومات أنها العمود الفقري لأي عمل

إن الناس لا يحبون المتاجر الخالية ، هكذا كان يقول أبي ، إنهم يشعرون بداخلها بعدم الأمان

Sir Hamish Graham has many of the qualities & most of the failings that result from being born to a middle-class Scottish family. He was well educated, hard working & honest, while at the same time being narrow-minded, uncompromising & proud.

But Beverly warned, Sasha, civilized as the British are, you shouldn't assume that just because you're clever, they will accept you as one of them. There are many who are suspicious of a first-class mind, while others will make a judgment based not on the words you say, but the accent in which they're pronounced. - Dr. Streator

No, Mr Redmayne, not my tears. Although I've read that letter every day for the past eight months, those tears were not shed by me, but by the man who wrote them. He knew how much I loved him. We would have made a life together even if we could only spend one day a month with each other. I'd have been happy to wait twenty years, more, in the hope that I would eventually be allowed to spend the rest of my life with the only man I'll ever love. I adored Danny from the day I met him, and no one will ever take his place.

How well they all knew each other now, he thought. In twelve weeks James felt he had come to know more about these three men than any of the so-called friends he'd known for twenty years. For the first time he understood why his father continually referred back to friendships formed during the war with men he normally would never have met. He realised how much he was going to miss Stephen when he returned to America. Success was, in fact, going to split them up.

The solicitor he selected, a Mr Makepeace, had demanded five thousand pounds up front, even before he took the top off his fountain pen, and then another five once he'd briefed Alex Redmayne, the barrister who would represent him in Court. Danny couldn't understand why he needed two lawyers to do the same job.

His lectures were always well attended, and not just because he imparted so much wisdom and knowledge: he also managed to do it with humour. It had taken Danny some time to realize that the professor enjoyed provoking discussion and argument by offering up outrageous statements to see what reaction he would arouse from his students.

I never advise friends to put money in anything,. said Danny. 'It's a no-win situation - if they make a profit they forget that it was you who recommended it, and if they make a loss they never stop reminding you. My only advise would be not to gamble what you can't afford, and never to risk an amount that might cause you to lose a night's sleep

Just as soon as I get this cast off," Fletcher said, "I'm going to kick your ass." "You shouldn't speak to Dr Renwick like that, after all he's done for you," said Nat, with a grin. "Why not?" asked Fletcher. "He filled me up with your blood, so now I'm half the man I was." "Wrong again," said Nat. "You're twice the man you were, but still half the man I am.

How about your plan?" "Nothing. Useless. And now we have started on the others I seem to have less time to concentrate on my own." "Why don't I seduce him?" "Not a bad idea, but you'd have to be pretty special to get £100,000 out of him, when he can hang around outside the Hilton or Shepherd Market and get it for £30. If there's one thing we've learnt about that gentleman it's that he expects value for money. At £30 a night it would take you just under 15 years to repay my share, and I'm not sure the other three would be willing to wait that long. Infact I'm not sure they will wait another fifteen days.

...the novel had reached its apogee with the marriage plot and had never recovered from its disappearance. In the days when success in life had depended on marriage, and marriage had depended on money, novelists had had a subject to write about. The great epics sang of war, the novel of marriage. Sexual equality, good for women, had been bad for the novel. And divorce had undone it completely. What would it matter whom Emma married if she could file for separation later? How would Isabel Archer’s marriage to Gilbert Osmond have been affected by the existence of a prenup? As far as Saunders was concerned, marriage didn’t mean much anymore, and neither did the novel. Where could you find the marriage plot nowadays? You couldn’t. You had to read historical fiction. You had to read non-Western novels involving traditional societies. Afghani novels, Indian novels. You had to go, literarily speaking, back in time.

When will the Home Office realize that when judges retire, not only are they sent home for the rest of their lives, but the only people they have left to judge are their innocent wives.' 'So what are you recommending?'asked Alex as they walked into the drawing room. 'That judges should be shot on their seventieth birthday, and their wives granted a royal pardon and given their pensions by a grateful nation.' 'I may have come up with a more acceptable solution,' suggested Alex. 'Like what? Making it legal to assist judges' wives to commit suicide?' 'Something a little less drastic,' said Alex.

..each ministry has an allocation of money to spend on projects agreed to by the government. Every Secretary of State is acutely aware that his tenure of office maybe very short, so he picks out a major contract for himself from the many available. It's the one way to ensure a pension for life if the government is changed overnight or the minister simply loses his job.

The grandmothers decided on William’s eighth birthday that the time had come for the boy to learn the value of money. With this in mind, they allocated him one dollar a week as pocket money, but insisted that he keep an inventory accounting for every cent he spent. Grandmother Kane presented him with a green leather-bound ledger, at a cost of 95 cents, which she deducted from his first week’s allowance. From then on the grandmothers divided the dollar up every Saturday morning. William could invest 50 cents, spend 20 cents, give 10 cents to charity and keep 20 cents in reserve. At the end of each quarter they would inspect the ledger and his written report on any unusual transactions.

Sometimes I hate this language with its false words like sunset. The sun does not set. It doesn't rise either. It just stays there in one place, yet we get all romantic, huddling on beaches to watch its so-called departure, when it is we who turn away from it, which is a good thing-if the sun could turn, it would never come back, it'd just keep going, look for some better planet to nourish. Moonlight is another lie. It's a luminescent echo. The moon is a politician whose speeches are written by the sun. I long for a world where witnesses in court must place their hands on a dictionary when they swear. A world where an archer must ask an arrow's permission before loading it into a crossbow. A world with inverted flashlights that shoot out beams of darkness, so you can go to the beach and sabotage sunbathers, rob them of their shine. A world where people eat animals they wish to emulate. But who the hell am I? I'm just the spark from two people who rubbed their genitals together like sticks in a forest one October night because they were cold. I'm just burning the firecracker at both ends. Every morning I get up and swallow my weirdness pills. I know the glass is half full, but it's a shot glass, and there are four of us, and we're all very thirsty. I know it's easy not to cry over spilled milk when you've got another carton in the fridge.