Jilly Cooper Quotes

• Nunca tomes café solo a mediodía; te mantendrá despierto toda la tarde.

  Jilly Cooper

  Retirement, Coffee, Food

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• El macho - he descubierto - es un animal doméstico que, si se trata con firmeza y amabilidad, puede ser entrenado para hacer la mayoría de las cosas.

  Jilly Cooper

  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?

  Jilly Cooper

  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.

  Jilly Cooper

  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.

  Jilly Cooper

  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.

  Jilly Cooper

  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.

  Jilly Cooper

  Libro, Escritura, Personas

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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.

  Jilly Cooper

  Work, Office, Paper

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• El aristócrata, cuando quiere, tiene muy buenos modales. Las clases altas escocesas, en particular, tienen ese aspecto de concha de guerra que probablemente les viene de golpearse la cabeza contra vigas bajas poniéndose en pie de un salto cada vez que entra una mujer en la habitación. Los aristócratas también son profundamente machistas y... en general tienden a ser reaccionarios.

  Jilly Cooper

  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.

  Jilly Cooper

  Libro, Escritura, Pensamiento

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

  Jilly Cooper

  Long Grass, Long, Grass

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

  Jilly Cooper

  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.

  Jilly Cooper

  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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  Hombres, Edad, Seis

  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.

  Jilly Cooper

  Hurt, Revenge, People

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• Sin duda, lleva un diario. Desde el día en que naces, lleva un diario, porque todos olvidamos las cosas muy deprisa.

  Jilly Cooper

  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.

  Jilly Cooper

  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.

  Jilly Cooper

  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.

  Jilly Cooper

  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.

  Jilly Cooper

  Class System, People, Mind

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