Mary Archer famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I will say that the prison regime is rather a good one for a writer because you have plenty of time to write.
-- Mary Archer

#Writing #Prison #Regimes
Marriage is... OK, it's rooted and grounded on love and attraction.
-- Mary Archer

#Grounded #Attraction
It sounds extraordinary, but it's a fact that balance sheets can make fascinating reading.
-- Mary Archer

#Reading #Balance #Facts
I do mind some of the intrusions on privacy.
-- Mary Archer

#Mind #Privacy #Intrusion
I hope to live long and be happy. But I'd like to be remembered as somebody who did good rather than mischief.
-- Mary Archer

#Long #Mischief #Remembered
I think one of the downsides of the sort of obsession with romantic love and personal fulfillment is that the plain fact of the matter is that those feelings don't last for ever and so they better be replaced and reinforced by things that do.
-- Mary Archer

#Thinking #Romantic Love #Feelings
I think we explored the further reaches of for better or for worse than some other married couples.
-- Mary Archer

#Marriage #Couple #Thinking

If the English language had been properly organized ... then there would be a word which meant both 'he' and 'she', and I could write, 'If John or Mary comes heesh will want to play tennis', which would save a lot of trouble.
The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.
When I write I have no loyalty except to historical truth as I see it and care no more about British achievements and mistakes than any other.
Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrist? And what has he been after that they groan and shake their fists? And wherefore is he wearing such a conscience-stricken air? Oh they're taking him to prison for the colour of his hair.
Useless pursuits and conversations always about the same things absorb the better part of one's time, the better part of one's strength, and in the end there is left a life grovelling and curtailed, worthless and trivial, and there is no escaping or getting away from itâ€”just as though one were in a madhouse or prison.
I turn and turn in my cell like a fly that doesn't know where to die.
I've gone on workout regimes, but I seem to have a system that is very resistant to changing.
I cannot understand how people can still call themselves Christians and not be furious adversaries of Hitler's regime.
So South Korean ability is very much limited to handle North Korean, you know, difficulties. So we don't want to see an immediate collapse of the North Korea regime.
The free world led by the U.S. fought almost all regimes that trampled on human rights.

Mary Archer famous quotes

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