Jilly Cooper Quotes

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• Never drink black coffee at lunch; it will keep you awake all afternoon.

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  Retirement, Coffee, Food

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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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  Marriage, Kindness, Women

  "Men and Supermen". Book by Jilly Cooper, 1972.

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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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  Family And Friends, Goes On, Tomorrow

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

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  Simple, Secret, Different

  "My favourite table". Interview with Chloe Diski, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2002.

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• If you feel compelled to give a New Year's Eve party, don't invite people to arrive too early or they'll go off the boil before midnight.

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  New Year, Party, Years

  Jilly Cooper (2010). “How to Survive Christmas”, p.153, Random House

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

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  Men, Thinking, Cooks

  "My favourite table" by Chloe Diski, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2002.

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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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  Home, Holiday, Way

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

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  Very Happy, Happy Person, Persons

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• People who can write a book usually do.

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  Book, Writing, People

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• People always assume that bachelors are single by choice and spinsters because nobody asked them. It never enters their heads that poor bachelors might have worn the knees of their trousers out proposing to girls who rejected them or that a girl might deliberately stay unmarried.

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  Girl, People, Choices

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• 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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  Work, Office, Paper

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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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  Upper Class, Feet, Good Man

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• But I always seem to finish a book and then think, oh God, I've got to pay a tax bill, so I'd better write a novel, so I tend not to stop and learn word processing.

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  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• I love the long grass coming up to meet the willows.

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  Long Grass, Long, Grass

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• I think we ought to have a kindness year, or a kindness century.

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  Kindness, Thinking, Years

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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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  Today, Sound, Significant

  Jilly Cooper (2012). “How To Survive From Nine To Five”, p.42, Random House

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

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  Men, Age, Six

  Jilly Cooper (2011). “Men And Supermen”, p.22, Random House

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• hurting other people is not excusable because you've been hurt yourself.

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  Hurt, Revenge, People

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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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  Doubt, Diaries, Forget

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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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  Ideas, Years, Bored

  Jilly Cooper (2012). “Angels Rush In”, p.402, Random House

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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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  Book, Writing, Firefighter

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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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  Work, Should Have, Office

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• 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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  Running, Work, Reading

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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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  Grandmother, Ready, Persons

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

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  Class System, People, Mind

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