Jilly Cooper Quotes - Page 2

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

And I would really like to be a grandmother, but only when Felix or Emily meet the right person and are ready.

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.

There is something infinitely dingy about the word workshop. Pray that England doesn't become a nation of workshopkeepers.

I live at home and, if I want to start work at 11 o'clock, I can.

But really I'm not terribly interested in what I eat.

There is nothing more attractive than a man who is not a New Man.

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

Leo, sadly, has Parkinsons, but he used to cook all sorts of dazzling things.

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

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

I would really like to spend more time with the family. Every time I go abroad I miss them all dreadfully.

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

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

Always be nice to everyone in the firm on the way up. You never know who you may meet on the way down.

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

My own parents loved each other very much.