Jilly Cooper quotes

The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things. (Jilly Cooper)

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

Jilly Cooper

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

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

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

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

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For sheer sexiness, a man must be beautiful. Funny. yes. Clever, no. (Jilly Cooper)

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

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

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My own parents loved each other very much.

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You've 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 they'll be there tomorrow, do you?

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

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

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

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

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

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