Quotes from Be Careful What You Wish For

“A work of art is worth what someone will pay for it.”
― Jeffrey Archer, quote from Be Careful What You Wish For

“Time spent on preparation is seldom wasted.”
― Jeffrey Archer, quote from Be Careful What You Wish For

“An unguarded comment often proves every bit as valuable as a response to a direct question.”
― Jeffrey Archer, quote from Be Careful What You Wish For

“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.”
― Jeffrey Archer, quote from Be Careful What You Wish For

“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.”
― Jeffrey Archer, quote from Be Careful What You Wish For

“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?”
― Jeffrey Archer, quote from Be Careful What You Wish For

“If you've struck gold, why go in search of brass?”
― Jeffrey Archer, quote from Be Careful What You Wish For

“stop for a drink, which made him feel”
― Jeffrey Archer, quote from Be Careful What You Wish For

“I have experienced both triumph and disaster, and, to quote Kipling, have treated those two imposters just the same.”
― Jeffrey Archer, quote from Be Careful What You Wish For

“deal with all four of them in one masterful stroke. Sir Alan Redmayne believed in the rule of law. It was,”
― Jeffrey Archer, quote from Be Careful What You Wish For

“Sir Alan Redmayne believed in the rule of law. It was, after all, the basis of any democracy. Whenever asked, Sir Alan agreed with Churchill that, as a form of government, democracy had its disadvantages, but, on balance, it remained the best on offer. But given a free hand, he would have opted for a benevolent dictatorship. The problem was that dictators, by their very nature, were not benevolent. It simply didn’t fit their job description.”
― Jeffrey Archer, quote from Be Careful What You Wish For

“You are so silly sometimes, Jess. I fell in love with you, and I don’t give a damn who your”
― Jeffrey Archer, quote from Be Careful What You Wish For

“He remained silent for the rest of the journey, having been made painfully aware that birth is life’s first lottery ticket. Tom”
― Jeffrey Archer, quote from Be Careful What You Wish For

“never thought they’d see in their lifetime. With”
― Jeffrey Archer, quote from Be Careful What You Wish For

“We should, of course, look back with pride on our colonial empire, but be willing at the same time to grasp the nettles of opportunity.”
― Jeffrey Archer, quote from Be Careful What You Wish For

“Over supper of a bowl of Heinz tomato soup and a sausage roll, he went over again and”
― Jeffrey Archer, quote from Be Careful What You Wish For

“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?”
― Jeffrey Archer, quote from Be Careful What You Wish For

“parking space—44 Eaton…? He flicked it quickly back”
― Jeffrey Archer, quote from Be Careful What You Wish For

“Only Sebastian really knew what she was going through. Her demons, as she called them. Jessica never stopped chattering whenever they were on their own, but the moment she became the centre of attention, like a tortoise she slipped back into her shell, hoping no one would notice her.”
― Jeffrey Archer, quote from Be Careful What You Wish For

“but he still wasn’t sure how to respond to the English obsession with the weather.”
― Jeffrey Archer, quote from Be Careful What You Wish For

“what it is, Anscott, a short-term compromise. If at some time in the future Barrington’s needs to”
― Jeffrey Archer, quote from Be Careful What You Wish For

“When does that moment come, Emma wondered, when mothers stop kissing their children, and young men start kissing their mothers?”
― Jeffrey Archer, quote from Be Careful What You Wish For

“the same pulling power as the other lads in the bank.” “I’ll tell you about the other lads,” said Cedric. “Once they’ve got a couple of pints in them, they’d have you believe they give James Bond lessons. And I can tell you, with most of them, it’s all talk.” “Did you have the same problem when you were my age?” “Certainly not,” said Cedric. “But then I met Beryl when I was six, and I haven’t looked”
― Jeffrey Archer, quote from Be Careful What You Wish For

“birth is life’s first lottery ticket.”
― Jeffrey Archer, quote from Be Careful What You Wish For

“nearest gutter if he thought it would”
― Jeffrey Archer, quote from Be Careful What You Wish For

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“Many individuals are so constituted that their only thought is to obtain pleasure and shun responsibility. They would like, butterfly-like, to wing forever in a summer garden, flitting from flower to flower, and sipping honey for their sole delight. They have no feeling that any result which might flow from their action should concern them. They have no conception of the necessity of a well-organized society wherein all shall accept a certain quota of responsibility and all realize a reasonable amount of happiness. They think only of themselves because they have not yet been taught to think of society. For them pain and necessity are the great taskmasters. Laws are but the fences which circumscribe the sphere of their operations. When, after error, pain falls as a lash, they do not comprehend that their suffering is due to misbehavior. Many such an individual is so lashed by necessity and law that he falls fainting to the ground, dies hungry in the gutter or rotting in the jail and it never once flashes across his mind that he has been lashed only in so far as he has persisted in attempting to trespass the boundaries which necessity sets. A prisoner of fate, held enchained for his own delight, he does not know that the walls are tall, that the sentinels of life are forever pacing, musket in hand. He cannot perceive that all joy is within and not without. He must be for scaling the bounds of society, for overpowering the sentinel. When we hear the cries of the individual strung up by the thumbs, when we hear the ominous shot which marks the end of another victim who has thought to break loose, we may be sure that in another instance life has been misunderstood--we may be sure that society has been struggled against until death alone would stop the individual from contention and evil.”
― Theodore Dreiser, quote from Sister Carry

“Buster sat on the curb in front of the college, waiting for his sister to pick him up. To pass the time, he skimmed the stories of the creative writing students. One was about a wild party and the story consisted almost entirely of a detailed explanation of a drinking game called Flip 'N Chug that seemed, to Buster, to be too complicated to facilitate the simple goal of getting drunk.”
― Kevin Wilson, quote from The Family Fang

“The only people we want to blame are ourselves, because it will be ourselves that we rely upon.”
― Markus Zusak, quote from Fighting Ruben Wolfe

“Tell Crabby Abby he’s going to sit on the naughty chair if he sinks one more island,” Astrid said, catching her ball.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, quote from Deep Blue

“Дали хубавите неща, изживени заедно, стават грозни, защото човекът, който е радвал живота ви, ви е измамил?”
― Grégoire Delacourt, quote from The List of My Desires

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