Jilly Cooper Quotes
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in a village you can't sack or fight with someone, as you'll find yourself stuck beside them in the hairdresser's next morning.
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The only thing a whirlwind courtship does is blow dust in everyone's eyes.
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There is nothing more attractive than a man who is not a New Man.
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Meetings ... are rather like cocktail parties. You don't want to go, but you're cross not to be asked.
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And I would really like to be a grandmother, but only when Felix or Emily meet the right person and are ready.
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Never drink black coffee at lunch; it will keep you awake all afternoon.
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It must be a terrible pressure to have to go to the office.
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it's a good idea to wait a few months before joining anything when you arrive at a village. A bookseller friend who retired to nearby Oxfordshire, and was worried he might be bored, got himself on to every village committee in the first six months, and spent the next ten years extricating himself.
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Bachelors begin at thirty-six. Up till this age they are regarded as single men.
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A lot of meetings are held to arrange when to have meetings. ... Meetings today are usually called conferences to make them sound more significant.
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People who can write a book usually do.
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The memo's chief function ... is as a track-coverer, so that you can turn on someone six months later and snarl: 'Well, you should have known about it, I sent you a memo.
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I'd never have written the big books in London.
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I think it bespeaks a generous nature, a man who can cook.
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Youve simply got to go on and on with your family and friends and tell them how much you love them because you never know whether theyll be there tomorrow, do you?
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I'm not wild about holidays. They always seem a ludicrously expensive way of proving there's no place like home.
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I live at home and, if I want to start work at 11 o'clock, I can.
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I love the long grass coming up to meet the willows.
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I'm basically a very happy person and I don't have to be anybody else.
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The aristocrat, when he wants to, has very good manners. The Scottish upper classes, in particular, have that shell-shocked look that probably comes from banging their heads on low beams leaping to their feet whenever a woman comes into the room. Aristocrats are also deeply male chauvinist, and ... on the whole they tend to be reactionary.
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Go to lots of interviews, at least one a month even when you don't need a job, to keep in training for when you do.
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Leo, sadly, has Parkinsons, but he used to cook all sorts of dazzling things.
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The male - I have found - is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness and kindness, can be trained to do most things.
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I was so flattered that someone wanted me to write a book, I said I would. It was published in 1969.
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Without doubt, keep a diary. From the day you're born, keep a diary, because we all forget things so quickly.
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My own parents loved each other very much.
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At home I have big vats of cabbage soup that I make to slim down.
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I think we ought to have a kindness year, or a kindness century.
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But really I'm not terribly interested in what I eat.
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Always be nice to everyone in the firm on the way up. You never know who you may meet on the way down.
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