Best Jilly Cooper Quotes

#1. I think it bespeaks a generous nature, a man who can cook.

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#2. I can assure you that the class system is alive and well and living in people's minds in England.

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#3. 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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#4. In the end, I want to spend my 60s writing bonkbusters like Jilly Cooper.

Caitlin Moran

#5. I'd never have written the big books in London.

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#6. I'm bored stiff by ballet. i can't bear those muscular white legs like unbaked plaited loaves, and I get quite hysterical every time one of the women sticks out her leg at right angles, and the man suddenly grabs it and walks round in a circle as though he were opening a tin.

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#7. Although it is the biggest time-waster in office life, you must never underrate the importance of the memo. You will be judged by the volume of your paper work.

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#8. You've 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 they'll be there tomorrow, do you?

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#9. 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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#10. At home I have big vats of cabbage soup that I make to slim down.

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#11. 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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#12. 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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#13. Never drink black coffee at lunch; it will keep you awake all afternoon.

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#14. I'm basically a very happy person and I don't have to be anybody else.

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#15. I've got a book coming out soon so I just must get some weight off.

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#16. My own parents loved each other very much.

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#17. I do read on holiday, but it tends to be very lowbrow. I'm into really camp biographies, and I'm a shameless fan of Jilly Cooper.

Miranda Raison

#18. Hurting other people is not excusable because you've been hurt yourself.

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#19. People who can write a book usually do.

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#20. I have a theory that the secret of marital happiness is simple: drink in different pubs to your other half.

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#21. 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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#22. Meetings ... are rather like cocktail parties. You don't want to go, but you're cross not to be asked.

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#23. I wrote my earliest piece for The Sunday Times about being a young wife.

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#24. Bachelors begin at thirty-six. Up till this age they are regarded as single men.

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#25. The only thing a whirlwind courtship does is blow dust in everyone's eyes.

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#26. The bank told us we ought to sell this house to pay off our overdraft. Riders saved the day. I was so pleased when it got to number one, I went all around the fields crying and crying.

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#27. The letter of application ... should be a masterpiece of fiction, papering over all the cracks. Get it properly typed on decent writing paper. Never let it run over the page, people get bored with reading.

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#28. It must be a terrible pressure to have to go to the office.

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#29. 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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#30. 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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