Jilly Cooper - People Quotes

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Hurting other people is not excusable because you've been hurt yourself.

Jilly Cooper

Nostalgia excuses everything, enabling people to click their tongues over the out-dated inequalities, yet guiltily enjoy the sense of hierarchy.

Jilly Cooper

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.

Jilly Cooper

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

Jilly Cooper

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

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