Bridget Jones Helen Fielding Quotes

#1. Age of rationing ended some time ago and is now space rather than possessions which is in short supply.

Helen Fielding

#2. With the Internet, we can choose the very communities we want to be a part of.

Alex Shakar

#3. However, on glimpsing in shop window realized outfit insane. Now am on bus, remember also that corset-ike nature of dress is torture when sitting down. One's rolls of fat are squezzed together like dough being kneaded in a food processor.

Helen Fielding

#4. We have learned to see racism in the spittle-laced epithets of the angry bigot. We must also learn to see racism in the coded racial entreaties promoted by calculating demagogues.

Ian F. Haney-Lopez

#5. It's all chop-change chop-change with you. Either go out with me and treat me nicely, or leave me alone. As I say, I am not interested in fuckwittage.

Helen Fielding

#6. HARHARBLOODY HAR. Put that in your pipe hole and smoke it, society!

Helen Fielding

#7. I just did an interview where I was asked whether I drink beer or whisky, and I was sad to reveal that I'm pounding spring water.

Brad Delson

#8. Bridget Jones, wanton sex goddess, with a very bad man between her thighs ... Mum ... Hi.

Helen Fielding

#9. Exes should never, never go out with or marry other people but should remain celibate to the end of their days in order to provide you with a mental fallback position.

Helen Fielding

#10. Bridget. Sleeping with a twenty-nine year old off Twitter on the second date is not 'rather like in Jane Austen's day'. (Talitha)

Helen Fielding

#11. Clearly in textbook terms, the gentleman should text the lady first after intercourse, but perhaps the whole socio-etiquettical system breaks down when an insect plague is involved.

Helen Fielding

#12. Do not acid vapors have the very properties of melancholia, whereas alcoholic vapors, always ready to burst into flame, suggest frenzy; and sulfurous vapors, agitated by a violent and continuous movement, indicate mania?

Michel Foucault

#13. Not everything that's true needs to be said.

Cassandra Clare

#14. I like you very much. Just as you are. Mark Darcy, Bridget Jones

Helen Fielding

#15. You see, things being good has nothing to do with how you feel outside, it is all to do with how you are inside.

Helen Fielding

#16. Ponder just let it happen. It's because their minds are so often involved with deep and problematic matters, he told himself, that their mouths are allowed to wander around making a nuisance of themselves.

Terry Pratchett

#17. I was writing an earnest novel about cruises in the Caribbean and I just started writing 'Bridget Jones' to get some money, to finance this earnest work, and then I chucked it out.

Helen Fielding

#18. Susan of course would rather face gunfire than walk in the rain and ruin her hair. But

Robert B. Parker

#19. And what is love? My measure of it is that I should have died to spare her. Her measure is for us to be together longer. I

Harold Brodkey

#20. In the '50s, women aspired to dress like their mothers - this polished, controlled, formal way of dressing. Then all of a sudden in the '60s, going into the '70s, they stopped dressing like their mothers.

Robin Givhan

#21. I will not be defeated by a bad man and an American stick insect ... instead I choose Chaka Khan ... and vodka ... Bridget Jones

Helen Fielding

#22. We've got to teach history based not on what's in fashion, but what's important.

Ronald Reagan

#23. At my sexiest, I look like an androgenous Muppet.

Matthew Gray Gubler

#24. When a person trains once, nothing happens. When a person forces himself to do a thing a hundred or a thousand times, then he certainly has developed in more ways than physical. Is it raining? That doesn't matter. Am I tired? That doesn't matter either. Then willpower will be no problem.

Emil Zatopek

#25. Ashoka's dilemma is the dilemma of civilization itself. As society developed and weaponry became more deadly, the empire, founded on and maintained by violence, would paradoxically become the most effective means of keeping the peace.

Karen Armstrong

#26. I mean, I haven't rushed to the answerphone once to see if anyone's aware of my existence in the world!

Helen Fielding

#27. Sup white girl? Jerod liked to think he was black. He wasn't. He was as white as freshly fallen snow. But we all had dreams.

Airicka Phoenix

#28. When he's hot, he's hot; when he's not, he's not. But at least there is always food

Helen Fielding