Quotes from Only Time Will Tell

“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, quote from Only Time Will Tell

“If you make a deal with a fool, don't be surprised when they act foolishly.”
― Jeffrey Archer, quote from Only Time Will Tell

“I find I don't learn a lot while I'm talking”
― Jeffrey Archer, quote from Only Time Will Tell

“You can often judge the character of a person by the way he treats his fellow men.”
― Jeffrey Archer, quote from Only Time Will Tell

“The worst moment of any campaign is waiting for the sun to rise on the morning of the battle”
― Jeffrey Archer, quote from Only Time Will Tell

“Sometimes an abundance of sympathy can be more overwhelming than solitude”
― Jeffrey Archer, quote from Only Time Will Tell

“Good night, good night, parting is such sweet sorrow,' she whispered
'That I shall say good night till it be morrow,' Harry replied.”
― Jeffrey Archer, quote from Only Time Will Tell

“only a fool blames the messenger.”
― Jeffrey Archer, quote from Only Time Will Tell

“Some clever children don’t discover how bright they are until after they’ve left school,’ continued Mr Holcombe, ‘and then spend the rest of their lives regretting the wasted years.”
― Jeffrey Archer, quote from Only Time Will Tell

“The English are the biggest snobs on earth Harry.”
― Jeffrey Archer, quote from Only Time Will Tell

“This is the BBC in London. You will now hear a statement from the Prime Minister.” “I am speaking to you from the Cabinet room, Ten Downing Street. This morning the British Ambassador in Berlin handed the German government a final note, stating that unless we heard from them by eleven o’clock, that they were prepared at once to withdraw their troops from Poland, a state of war would exist between us. I have to tell you now, that no such undertaking has been received, and that consequently, this country is at war with Germany.”
― Jeffrey Archer, quote from Only Time Will Tell

“Some people stand by you in your darkest hour, while others walk away; only a select few march toward you and become even closer friends.”
― Jeffrey Archer, quote from Only Time Will Tell

“Clifton, in life you get what you deserve, no more and certainly no less.”
― Jeffrey Archer, quote from Only Time Will Tell

“if you make a deal with a fool, don’t be surprised when they act foolishly.”
― Jeffrey Archer, quote from Only Time Will Tell

“I watched Hugo Barrington when he gave his evidence. The same self-confidence, the same arrogance, the same half-truths spouted convincingly to the jury, just as he’d whispered them to me in the privacy of the bedroom.”
― Jeffrey Archer, quote from Only Time Will Tell

“the worst moment of any campaign is waiting for the sun to rise on the morning of battle.”
― Jeffrey Archer, quote from Only Time Will Tell

“Sometimes it’s an advantage to be disadvantaged,”
― Jeffrey Archer, quote from Only Time Will Tell

“The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog’, which, Mr Holcombe pointed out, contained every letter in the alphabet. I checked, and he turned out to be right.”
― Jeffrey Archer, quote from Only Time Will Tell

“I find I don’t learn a lot while I’m talking,”
― Jeffrey Archer, quote from Only Time Will Tell

“Seven pounds, nine shillings and sixpence turned out to be the value they’d put on Arthur’s life. I sat alone at the kitchen table, and I think that was the moment I knew I’d never see my husband again.”
― Jeffrey Archer, quote from Only Time Will Tell

“sometimes an abundance of sympathy can be more overwhelming than solitude. Giles”
― Jeffrey Archer, quote from Only Time Will Tell

“I’ll bet you can’t tell me who designed the garden. I’ll give you a clue: it’s later than the house.’ ‘I’ve only ever heard of one landscape gardener,’ said Harry, still staring at the house. ‘Capability Brown.’ ‘That’s exactly why we chose him,’ said Giles, ‘simply so that my friends would have heard of the fellow two hundred years later.’ Harry”
― Jeffrey Archer, quote from Only Time Will Tell

“At least, not until she met Patrick Casey, who proved that the charm of the Irish was not just a cliche.”
― Jeffrey Archer, quote from Only Time Will Tell

“Ideas smack of rebellion and rebellions must be put”
― Jeffrey Archer, quote from Only Time Will Tell

“I should have prepared you for a brand of snobbery that no other nation on earth can emulate.”
― Jeffrey Archer, quote from Only Time Will Tell

“And then he realized—it had to be Tom Bradshaw’s father.”
― Jeffrey Archer, quote from Only Time Will Tell

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“No hay casualidades sino destinos. No se encuentra sino lo que se busca, y se busca lo que en cierto modo está escondido en lo más profundo y oscuro de nuestro corazón. Porque si no, ¿cómo el encuentro con una misma persona no produce en dos seres los mismos resultados? ¿Por qué a uno el encuentro con un revolucionario lo lleva a la revolución y al otro lo deja indiferente? Razón por la cual parece como que uno termina por encontrarse al final con las personas que debe encontrar, quedando así la casualidad reducida a límites muy modestos. De modo que esos encuentros que en la vida de cada uno nos parecen asombrosos, no son otra cosa que la consecuencia de esas fuerzas desconocidas que nos aproximan a través de la multitud indiferente, como las limaduras de hierro se orientan a distancia hasta los polos de un poderoso imán; movimientos; movimientos que constituirían motivo de asombro para las limaduras si tuviesen alguna conciencia de sus actos sin alcanzar a tener, empero, un conocimiento pleno y total de la realidad. Así, marchamos un poco sonámbulos, hacia los seres que de algún modo son desde el comienzo nuestros destinatarios.”
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“Dane discarded his speargun with visible relief. As a paladin of the Church of God Kraken, he had few options. Like many groups devoid of real power and realpolitik, the church was actually constrained by its aesthetics. Its operatives could not have guns, simply, because guns were not squiddy enough.
It was a common moan. Drunk new soldiers of the Cathedral of the Bees might whine: “It’s not that I don’t think sting-tipped blowpipes aren’t cool, it’s just…” “I’ve gotten rally good with the steam-cudgel,” a disaffected Pistonpunk might ask her elders “but wouldn’t it be useful to…?” Oh for a carbine, devout assassins pined.”
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“Oh my god, Jules. You are blushing!”

This is appalling. She’s right. I can feel it. “I am not!”

She leans in and teases me. “Do you need a mirror? You’re bright red.”

“Stop it. It’s not like that. We talk about . . . heavy things.” I don’t want to say “death.” Even that much feels like breaking a confidence. “We’re not flirting.”

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