Jeffrey Archer quotes

Jeffrey Archer is a British author and former politician known for his bestselling novels and short stories. His career has included both literary successes and well-publicized legal controversies. He has sold millions of books worldwide and remains an influential figure in modern popular fiction. Here are 46 of his quotes:

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

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

Jeffrey Archer

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

Jeffrey Archer

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

Jeffrey Archer

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

I want to be your stranger across a crowded room.

Jeffrey Archer

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

Jeffrey Archer

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

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

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

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

Jeffrey Archer

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

Jeffrey Archer

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

Jeffrey Archer

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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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

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

Jeffrey Archer

I'm what you might call centre-right but I've always disliked the right wing as much as I've disliked the left wing.

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Time spent on preparation is seldom wasted.

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Birth is life's first lottery ticket. (Jeffrey Archer)

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

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

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Jeffrey Archer

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Occupation: English Author
Born: April 15, 1940
Quotes count: 46
Wikipedia: Jeffrey Archer

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