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Charteris Quotes By W. Clement Stone

Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying. — W. Clement Stone

Charteris Quotes By Leslie Charteris

The Saint did not seem to be aware that he was multiplying miracles with an easy grace that would have made a Grand Lama look like a third-rate three-card man. — Leslie Charteris

Charteris Quotes By Anthony Burgess

And yet, in a sense, in choosing to be deprived of the ability to make an ethical choice, you have in a sense really chosen the good. — Anthony Burgess

Charteris Quotes By Leslie Charteris

Everything I write is designed to be milked to the last drop of revenue. — Leslie Charteris

Charteris Quotes By Leslie Charteris

Let's see what you've got - as the actress said to the bishop, — Leslie Charteris

Charteris Quotes By Leslie Charteris

In 1938, when I had decided that the only way to see the country was in a trailer, and I built the trailer which I still have and lived in it for eighteen months, and learned America from San Diego to the Canadian border, from Miami to New Jersey, and east to west in between. — Leslie Charteris

Charteris Quotes By Nikolaj Arcel

Human nature doesn't really change a lot. We haven't changed that much and politics haven't changed that much. It's still the same things we're debating today that we did 300 years ago, which is a little bit scary when you think about it. — Nikolaj Arcel

Charteris Quotes By Maxwell Maltz

Do not say to yourself, 'I am going to act this way tomorrow.' Just say to yourself - 'I am going to imagine myself acting this way NOW - for 30 minutes - today.' — Maxwell Maltz

Charteris Quotes By Lauren Beukes

The biggest fairy tale is that justice works because it doesn't. — Lauren Beukes

Charteris Quotes By Agnes Repplier

There is a vast deal of make-believe in the carefully nurtured sentiment for country life, and the barefoot boy, and the mountain girl. — Agnes Repplier

Charteris Quotes By Terry Pratchett

They say that the eyes of some paintings can follow you around the room, a fact that I doubt, but I am wondering whether some music can follow you for ever. — Terry Pratchett

Charteris Quotes By Leslie Charteris

His spirits were too elastic to know the meaning of depression, and the setback had intriguing angles to it which he was broad-minded enough to appreciate as an artist. — Leslie Charteris

Charteris Quotes By Leslie Charteris

In 1939 I hadn't even realized that this was an immigration problem. — Leslie Charteris

Charteris Quotes By Leslie Charteris

The reason is that for many years I have avoided reading anything whatsoever that approaches my own line of country, out of a somewhat fanatical desire to avoid the risk of unconscious imitation. — Leslie Charteris

Charteris Quotes By Leslie Charteris

For there is a price ticket on everything that puts a whizz into life, and adventure follows the rule. It's distressing, but there you are. — Leslie Charteris

Charteris Quotes By Leslie Charteris

If I didn't see its place in the Saga when I planned it, I probably wouldn't write it at all. — Leslie Charteris

Charteris Quotes By Leslie Charteris

It sounds good," he said. "It's the caterpillar's spats! — Leslie Charteris

Charteris Quotes By Leslie Charteris

Regretfully, I have decided that if the Saint Saga must remain permanently in print in its entirety, then it can only do so in its original form. — Leslie Charteris

Charteris Quotes By Leslie Charteris

Simon Templar was a man who couldn't help spreading melodrama all around him like an infectious disease. — Leslie Charteris

Charteris Quotes By Leslie Charteris

Any stupid remark, quoted often enough, becomes gospel. — Leslie Charteris

Charteris Quotes By Veronica Rossi

I don't have to tell you what your temper's like right now, do I? It's the scent of stupidity. — Veronica Rossi

Charteris Quotes By Leslie Charteris

The gleam in their eyes telegraphs only too clearly that they are hoping for a headline, which of course means something disparaging, because nothing makes such good copy as a feud. — Leslie Charteris

Charteris Quotes By Leslie Charteris

Others, amounting to four novels and a mess of short stories which I did not think worth preserving, I have done my best to eliminate from the record by refusing all requests for permission to reprint them, and I hope I have done a good job of making them hard to unearth. — Leslie Charteris

Charteris Quotes By Leslie Charteris

It was as if a rocket had exploded inside him, flooding all the dark places in his mind with light when he had caught up in that dynamic moment with the lead his instinct for adventure had given him. — Leslie Charteris

Charteris Quotes By Leslie Charteris

I'm called the Saint," he murmured. "But don't let us get melodramatic about it, son. The last man who got melodramatic with me was hanged at Exeter six months back. It don't seem to be healthy! — Leslie Charteris

Charteris Quotes By Patrick O'Brian

Put those pistols down at once,' he said coldly. 'Do not you know it is very rude to point a pistol at a person you do not mean to kill? For shame, Villiers. Where were you brought up? — Patrick O'Brian

Charteris Quotes By Leslie Charteris

He believes in romance. He isn't merely going through the mechanical movements of a man in an exciting situation. He is, vitally and positively squeezing the last drop of delight from living the best life he knows in the best way he can. — Leslie Charteris

Charteris Quotes By Leslie Charteris

Do you think I'd carry a gun in a suit like this ? My tailor would throw a fit. — Leslie Charteris

Charteris Quotes By Jimmy Cliff

My role is the shepherd's role. The shepherd is the one who opens the gate and allows the flock to go through and whoever opens the gate has to close it, and the gate is not yet closed. — Jimmy Cliff

Charteris Quotes By Leslie Charteris

About the Saint's amorous adventures, by the way, I can't speak so brazenly. — Leslie Charteris

Charteris Quotes By Leslie Charteris

If you'd only met her in Gotham, for instance, I should have had a song all ready for you. When you came in, I was just perfecting a little song about a wild woman of Gotham, who made love to young men and then shot 'em - till — Leslie Charteris

Charteris Quotes By Leslie Charteris

It should cause no surprise that anyone so lazy as myself should be economical to the point of miserliness with everything he writes. — Leslie Charteris

Charteris Quotes By Leslie Charteris

While the Saint, when it was necessary to play the part, could assume an aspect of proud or unprincipled poverty that would evoke a responsive twang from any normal heartstring, his usual appearance, fortunately or unfortunately, suggested a person who was so far on the other side of having been born with a silver spoon in his mouth that he must have been seriously shocked when he first learned that gold spoons were not standard issue. — Leslie Charteris

Charteris Quotes By Steve Buscemi

The first movie I had a featured role in was Parting Glances. — Steve Buscemi

Charteris Quotes By Leslie Charteris

I am an absurd idealist. But I believe that all that must come true. For, unless it comes true, the world will be laid desolate. And I believe that it can come true. I believe that, by the grace of God, men will awake presently and be men again, and colour and laughter and splendid living will return to a grey civilisation. But that will only come true because a few men will believe in it, and fight for it, and fight in its name against everything that sneers and snarls at that ideal. — Leslie Charteris

Charteris Quotes By George Bernard Shaw

CHARTERIS [unfolding his arms in terror] No, please. Dont. As a philosopher, it's my business to tell other people the truth; but it's not their business to tell it to me. I dont like it: it hurts. — George Bernard Shaw

Charteris Quotes By Leslie Charteris

I had still never read one of the Bond books when the movie Dr. No came out. — Leslie Charteris