Jeffrey Archer famous quotes

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.
-- Jeffrey Archer

#Men #Skills #Two

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

#Years #White #Black

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

#People #March #Hours

What I have found is that real friends stand by you.
-- Jeffrey Archer

#Real #Real Friends #Found

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

#Archer #Littles #Easier

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

#Suffering #Different #Way

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

#Philosophical #Fool #Deals

When I was three, I wanted to be four. When I was four, I wanted to be prime minister.
-- Jeffrey Archer

#Three #Four #Prime

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

#Children #Parent #Ambitious

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

#Morning #Waiting #Battle

No time like the present
-- Jeffrey Archer

#Wisdom #Time #Time Management

I find I don't learn a lot while I'm talking
-- Jeffrey Archer

#Talking

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

#Book #Stories #May

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.
-- Jeffrey Archer

#Mps #Land #Two

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.
-- Jeffrey Archer

#Strong #Men #May

We all make mistakes but one has to move on.
-- Jeffrey Archer

#Mistake #Moving #Making Mistakes

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

#Making Love #Important #Torture

I want to be your stranger across a crowded room.
-- Jeffrey Archer

#Want #Rooms #Stranger

I do greatly admire Australian artists.
-- Jeffrey Archer

#Artist #Admire

I am currently doing about 30 charity auctions a year.
-- Jeffrey Archer

#Years #Auctions #Charity

Exclusive will not be published in book format.
-- Jeffrey Archer

#Book #Format

Chatterers are a menace.
-- Jeffrey Archer

#Menace

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

#Art #Pay #Art Is

But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education.
-- Jeffrey Archer

#Diaries #Prison #Ends

I think my attitude to human beings has changed since leaving prison.
-- Jeffrey Archer

#Attitude #Thinking #Leaving

I'm passionate again about writing. This is important to me; it's got to be the comeback book.
-- Jeffrey Archer

#Book #Writing #Important

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

#Writing #Thinking #Leaving

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.
-- Jeffrey Archer

#Mistake #Made #Headlines

I've loved art for more than 30 years.
-- Jeffrey Archer

#Art #Years

I'm not taking any interest in politics. I'm not involved in politics in any way. My life is in writing now.
-- Jeffrey Archer

#Writing #Way #Life Is

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

#Stupid #Book #Agony

Time spent on preparation is seldom wasted.
-- Jeffrey Archer

#Preparation #Time Spent

It is often spur-of-the-moment decisions, sometimes made by others, that can change our whole lives.
-- Jeffrey Archer

#Decision #Spurs #Spur Of The Moment

Well I certainly have learned and I hope I'm moving on and certainly two years of prison was a terrible punishment.
-- Jeffrey Archer

#Moving On #Years #Punishment

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

#Kings #Energy #Assuming

War and Peace maddens me because I didn't write it myself, and worse, I couldn't.
-- Jeffrey Archer

#War #Writing

Actually, Sydney is my second favourite city on earth, I love Sydney, but this is the greatest.
-- Jeffrey Archer

#Cities #Earth #Favourite

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.
-- Jeffrey Archer

#Defining #Moments #Deposits

I was allowed to ring the bell for five minutes until everyone was in assembly. It was the beginning of power.
-- Jeffrey Archer

#Bells #Assembly #Minutes

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.
-- Jeffrey Archer

#Writing #Discipline #Way

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

#Popularity #Individual

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

#Australia #Judging #Trials

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

#Thinking #Government #Years

I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.
-- Jeffrey Archer

#Years #Done #Firsts

Birth is life's first lottery ticket.
-- Jeffrey Archer

#Firsts #Tickets #Birth

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.
-- Jeffrey Archer

#Regret #Mistake #Thinking

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!
-- Jeffrey Archer

#Team #Interesting #England

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

#Two #People #Lucky

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.
-- Jeffrey Archer

#Grease #Fantastic #Stage

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

#Past #Years #Would Be

Sixty per cent of people entering prison today are illiterate.
-- Jeffrey Archer

#People #Entering #Today