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Jeffrey Archer [1940-0] English

Rank: 104
Politician, Member of the House of Lords

Jeffrey Howard Archer, Baron Archer of Weston-super-Mare is an English author and former politician.
Before becoming an author, Archer was a Member of Parliament, but did not seek re-election after a financial scandal that left him almost bankrupt.

Attitude, Chance, Hope, Moving On, Travel

Quote	Tags	Rank
We all make mistakes but one has to move on.		101
I think my attitude to human beings has changed since leaving prison.	Attitude	102
What I have found is that real friends stand by you.		103
Well I certainly have learned and I hope I'm moving on and certainly two years of prison was a terrible punishment.	Hope, Moving On	104
Sixty per cent of people entering prison today are illiterate.		105
I'm passionate again about writing. This is important to me; it's got to be the comeback book.		106
I feel I have had a very interesting life, but I am rather hoping there is still more to come. I still haven't captained the England cricket team, or sung at Carnegie Hall!		107
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.		108
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.	Travel	109
Exclusive will not be published in book format.		110
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.		111
Actually, Sydney is my second favourite city on earth, I love Sydney, but this is the greatest.		112
But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education.		113
I do greatly admire Australian artists.		114
I spent my first three weeks there on a wing with 21 murderers. I met some very evil people there but also some men who'd had no upbringing, no chance in life.	Chance	115
When I was three, I wanted to be four. When I was four, I wanted to be prime minister.		116
At the end of my trial, I was rather hoping the judge would send me to Australia for the rest of my life.		117
The discipline required for athletics carried through to writing. You call it obsession. I call it discipline. By the way, I see nothing wrong with that.		118
When a book comes out I wonder if one person will buy it. It's agony. Of course it's stupid, but it's agony.		119
Very few people deserted me when I went to prison. They stayed loyal.		120
I was allowed to ring the bell for five minutes until everyone was in assembly. It was the beginning of power.		121
I am currently doing about 30 charity auctions a year.		122
I've been doing nineteen hours a day on London, nothing else, I mean this has been my whole life, and writing has been put on one side, and if I'm privileged enough to be the Mayor of this city, then I will not write again.		123
Well I think after leaving prison, and having written three diaries about life in prison, it became a sort of a new challenge to write another novel, to write a new novel.		124
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.		125
I learnt a lot about myself, I learnt a lot about other people and the problems they have. If I was lucky enough to live to a hundred, how I will feel about two per cent of my life being that way, I don't know.		126
And I did wonder - because it's now three years ago since I left prison - whether there would come a time when I would forget it, or it would be in the past as anything else might be - no, it's there every day of my life.		201
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.		202
I'm not involved in politics any more and they're quite right.		203
I've loved art for more than 30 years.		204
I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.		205
I'm not taking any interest in politics. I'm not involved in politics in any way. My life is in writing now.		206
Chatterers are a menace.		207
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.		208

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