20 Quotes by Jeffrey Archer
- We all make mistakes but one has to move on.
- 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.
- When I was three, I wanted to be four. When I was four, I wanted to be prime minister.
- Well I certainly have learned and I hope I'm moving on and certainly two years of prison was a terrible punishment.
- 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.
- I think my attitude to human beings has changed since leaving prison.
- Actually, Sydney is my second favourite city on earth, I love Sydney, but this is the greatest.
- 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.
- But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education.
- Exclusive will not be published in book format.
- I am currently doing about 30 charity auctions a year.
- I do greatly admire Australian artists.
- Sixty per cent of people entering prison today are illiterate.
- 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.
- I was allowed to ring the bell for five minutes until everyone was in assembly. It was the beginning of power.
- I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.
- I'm not involved in politics any more and they're quite right.
- I'm passionate again about writing. This is important to me; it's got to be the comeback book.
- I've loved art for more than 30 years.
- Success is that sweet dessert at the end of a dog-eared book; experience it not by skipping chapters but by relishing every word.
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