73 Quotes by Jilly Cooper

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?

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

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

The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness and kindness, can be trained to do most things.

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

And all these magazines started buying them. And my agent - my now agent - wrote to me and said these would make wonderful novels.

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

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.

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...