Jeffrey Archer · 305 pages
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“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, quote from Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less
“The bastard. It's bad enough knowing he's stolen our money,but it's humiliating having to watch him spend it.”
― Jeffrey Archer, quote from Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less
“It pains me to think how much you are worth now."
"I can't tell you that. If you can count it, you haven't got any.”
― Jeffrey Archer, quote from Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less
“How well they all knew each other now, he thought. In twelve weeks James felt he had come to know more about these three men than any of the so-called friends he'd known for twenty years. For the first time he understood why his father continually referred back to friendships formed during the war with men he normally would never have met. He realised how much he was going to miss Stephen when he returned to America. Success was, in fact, going to split them up.”
― Jeffrey Archer, quote from Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less
“One of the advantages of real worth is that menial tasks can always be left to someone else.”
― Jeffrey Archer, quote from Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less
“How about your plan?"
"Nothing. Useless. And now we have started on the others I seem to have less time to concentrate on my own."
"Why don't I seduce him?"
"Not a bad idea, but you'd have to be pretty special to get £100,000 out of him, when he can hang around outside the Hilton or Shepherd Market and get it for £30. If there's one thing we've learnt about that gentleman it's that he expects value for money. At £30 a night it would take you just under 15 years to repay my share, and I'm not sure the other three would be willing to wait that long. Infact I'm not sure they will wait another fifteen days.”
― Jeffrey Archer, quote from Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less
“Stop fussing, honey. It won't be the first time James has seen a man's stomach."
It's not the first time I've seen that one, thought James.”
― Jeffrey Archer, quote from Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less
“He had never understood the niceties of life and it was too late to start learning now.”
― Jeffrey Archer, quote from Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less
“Stevie, don't get cross, get even.”
― Jeffrey Archer, quote from Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less
“He was, in the words of H. H. Munro, a man whose looks made it possible for women to forgive any other trifling inadequacies.”
― Jeffrey Archer, quote from Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less
Jeffrey Archer
Born place: in London, The United Kingdom
Born date April 15, 1940
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