Elizabeth Jane Howard Quotes

• It's better to oversleep and miss the boat than get up early and sink.

  Elizabeth Jane Howard

  Up Early, Missing, Boat

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• I'm not lazy. I'm just really gifted, only instead of being good at music or math I'm good at sleeping late.

  Elizabeth Jane Howard

  Sleep, Math, Lazy

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• I think best in a hot bath, with my head tilted back and my feet up high.

  Elizabeth Jane Howard

  Thinking, Feet, Relaxation

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• You can't run from feelings, Charity. You have to face them. Otherwise your future will look just like your past.

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  Running, Past, Feelings

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• A massage is just like a movie, really relaxing and a total escape, except in a massage you're the star. And you don't miss anything by falling asleep!

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  Stars, Fall, Missing

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• I have lived my life in the slipstream of experience

  Elizabeth Jane Howard

  Book, Language

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• Holidays were invented so single women could overeat without feeling guilty.

  Elizabeth Jane Howard

  Holiday, Feelings, Guilty

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• I'm not particularly keen on pity. Pity takes something away from grief. People think they're sharing it, but really they're just taking some. I prefer to keep my grief intact.

  Elizabeth Jane Howard

  Grief, Thinking, People

  Elizabeth Jane Howard (2012). “Getting It Right”, p.240, Pan Macmillan

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• Sex is like petrol. It's a galvaniser, a wonderful fuel for starting a relationship.

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  Sex, Fuel, Wonderful

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• Laughter is just like champagne -- only without the headache afterwards.

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  Laughter, Headache, Champagne

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• A rainy day is like a lovely gift -- you can sleep late and not feel guilty.

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  Sleep, Rainy Day, Lovely

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• It's not a luxury if you can't do without it!

  Elizabeth Jane Howard

  Luxury, Ifs

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• Does breakfast in bed count as a morning workout?

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  Workout, Morning, Bed

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• Why does getting ahead always have to involve getting up early?

  Elizabeth Jane Howard

  Up Early, Doe

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• When you fall asleep after a big lunch you're really just saving up energy to work off all the calories later on.

  Elizabeth Jane Howard

  Fall, Saving Up, Lunch

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• Charity groped for the phone, coming up with it at last and croaking "hello" in a voice that sounded exactly like a bullfrog's mating call. Which made a kind of twisted sense - last night she'd been hunting for a mate as well.

  Elizabeth Jane Howard

  Hunting, Night, Phones

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• The craze of genealogy is connected with the epidemic for divorce. If we can't figure out who our living relatives are, then maybe we'll have more luck with the dead ones.

  Elizabeth Jane Howard

  Family, Divorce, Epidemics

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• For a single girl in London, luck isn't always a glass slipper that fits. Sometimes luck is a splash of mud from a passing bus.

  Elizabeth Jane Howard

  Girl, Glasses, Luck

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