Jeffrey Archer Quotes

Things aren't black and white in the world.

The world isn't black and white, Annie, it's shades of grey.

Nothing is black or white.

Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.

Love was that way. You could not render it in black or white. It always came down to the strange, blended shades of grey.

I love telling stories, but I also am more aware now of how complex reality is and how difficult it is to really explain what happened or how I felt. Maybe that sometimes makes me a little bit vague, because I don't want to really put my finger on anything or set it in stone.

Nothing is all good or all bad, nothing is black or white, everything is just messy and human and difficult.

I do not look at the world in terms of black and white - and I find people who do rather scary. I think it's all shades of grey.

Every year there's a few more things I'm not sure of. I've decided that a wide-ranging uncertainty is the mark of the true maturity of man.

We want to live in the black and white, but we don't. The world is gray. And, I'm always fascinated by people who are clearly, 'This is black and this is white, and that's the way life is.' Life always has something to say about that.

Everything in life is gray, you know.

Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find?

There are infinite shades of grey. Writing often appears so black and white.

To me, most of life kind of lives in the grey and I don't just mean morally. I just mean kind of everything. If things were black and white it would be a lot clearer as to what to do all the time.

When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we have to lie to ourselves. Black is never as black as you're painting it and white is never as white.

Anybody who believes and experiences their life and doesn't have shades of gray in it doesn't live where I live and is simply not in touch with the reality of the human condition.

When I was young, I had a very clear point of view on things in life, on moral questions. There was a black and white viewpoint on my world. As I've gotten older, I see the grey areas appear.

There's so much grey to every story - nothing is so black and white.

I don't see the world completely in black and white. Sometimes I do.

I am much more understanding of people than I used to be when I was young - people were either villainous or wonderful. They were painted in very bright colours. The bad side of it - and there is a corollary to everything - is that when we get older, we fuss more. I used to despise people who fussed.

In the intelligence business you are almost never completely wrong or completely right.

President Bush should learn to focus on the shades of grey

We grow up to respect the gray. Black or white, one or the other, is childish. It represents the worldview of someone who does not know the world.

It's really rare in life that a situation is as black and white as we tend to paint it.

I think it's common to want to label things as all good or all bad and what I'm finding is that every situation, person, event, has good and bad in it.