Jilly Cooper Quotes

• 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?

  Jilly Cooper

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

  Jilly Cooper

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

  Jilly Cooper

• The bank told us we ought to sell this house to pay off our overdraft. Riders saved the day. I was so pleased when it got to number one, I went all around the fields crying and crying.

  Jilly Cooper

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

  Jilly Cooper

• My own parents loved each other very much.

  Jilly Cooper

• Leo, sadly, has Parkinson’s, but he used to cook all sorts of dazzling things.

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

  Jilly Cooper

• If you look across the valley, you can see exactly what I mean: about four beautiful houses, and you think something is happening in each of them. It’s like a mural.

  Jilly Cooper

• I’ve got a book coming out soon so I just must get some weight off.

  Jilly Cooper

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

  Jilly Cooper

• I’d never have written the big books in London.

  Jilly Cooper

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

  Jilly Cooper

• I was so flattered that someone wanted me to write a book, I said I would. It was published in 1969.

  Jilly Cooper

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

  Jilly Cooper

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

  Jilly Cooper

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

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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

• For sheer s*xiness, a man must be beautiful. Funny. yes. Clever, no.

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• But really I’m not terribly interested in what I eat.

  Jilly Cooper

Jilly Cooper (23)

Birth:	21st February, 1937
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Author, Journalist, Novelist

About

Jilly Cooper was born in Hornchurch, England. She is an English author, journalist and novelist. She studied at Godolphin School in Salisbury. She began her career as a journalist and wrote numerous works of non-fiction before writing several romance novels, the first of which appeared in 1975. She is most famous for writing the Rutshire Chronicles. She worked for The Middlesex Independent (junior reporter), The Sunday Times Magazine, and The Mail on Sunday. She has written several books include: How to Stay Married, How Survive from Nine to Five, Supermen and Superwomen, Harriet (novel), Imogen (novel), Prudence (novel), The British in Love, Supercooper, Intelligent and Loyal, Riders (novel), Rivals (novel), and The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous (novel).

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