Elizabeth Jane Howard > Quotes

“A rainy day is like a lovely gift -- you can sleep late and not feel guilty.”
― Elizabeth Jane Howard, Mr. Wrong

“I think best in a hot bath, with my head tilted back and my feet up high.”
― Elizabeth Jane Howard, Mr. Wrong

“You can't run from feelings, Charity. You have to face them. Otherwise your future will look just like your past.”
― Elizabeth Jane Howard, Mr. Wrong

“I'm not lazy. I'm just really gifted, only instead of being good at music or math I'm good at sleeping late.”
― Elizabeth Jane Howard, Mr Wrong

“A massage is just like a movie, really relaxing and a total escape, except in a massage you're the star. And you don't miss anything by falling asleep!”
― Elizabeth Jane Howard, Mr. Wrong

“It's better to oversleep and miss the boat than get up early and sink.”
― Elizabeth Jane Howard, Mr. Wrong

“Does breakfast in bed count as a morning workout?”
― Elizabeth Jane Howard

“The real point of watching television is to forget that you have a brain.”
― Elizabeth Jane Howard, Mr. Wrong

“For a single girl in London, luck isn't always a glass slipper that fits. Sometimes luck is a splash of mud from a passing bus.”
― Elizabeth Jane Howard, Mr Wrong

“You can't oversleep if you don't make plans to wake up early.”
― Elizabeth Jane Howard, Mr. Wrong

“Charity liked brandy. She liked the way it burned her throat while soothing the ache in her heart.”
― Elizabeth Jane Howard, Mr. Wrong

“Sit down and tell me everything, child. Hurt feelings and hopeless despair are no match for tea and biscuits.”
― Elizabeth Jane Howard, The Beautiful Visit

“She laughed at bad jokes, stayed out too late, and overslept too often. Charity Hill loved holidays and she hated budgets and the alarm clock.”
― Elizabeth Jane Howard, Mr. Wrong

“Laughter is just like champagne -- only without the headache afterwards.”
― Elizabeth Jane Howard, Mr. Wrong

“Wandering down the street in an aimless sort of way, cold too, in a dress from last night that made young men stop and stare in the street, Charity Hill found herself hating the single life for the very first time.”
― Elizabeth Jane Howard, Mr Wrong

“Why can't they invent a pill that will keep you from remembering someone you don't want to remember?”
― Elizabeth Jane Howard

“Lady Margaret believed in the three D's: Discipline, Desire, and Determination. But as she listened dutifully to her new employer, hiding her yawns and trying to sit up extra straight in her chair, Charity Hill began thinking of all the lovely things that began with S, such as Sleeping Late, Sex, and Shopping.”
― Elizabeth Jane Howard, Mr. Wrong

“She looked as though everything that she didn't like had happened to her.”
― Elizabeth Jane Howard, Marking Time

“I've got lots of ambitions, but I only ever think of them when I'm lying around in my undies having a snooze.”
― Elizabeth Jane Howard, Mr. Wrong

“Sir Humphrey looked like a sleepy old hippo -- and when he yawned in that big, big, hippopotamus way Charity couldn't help doing likewise.”
― Elizabeth Jane Howard, Mr. Wrong

“It's all right, darling. I can't stand people who are bright-eyed and bushy-tailed at seven in the morning. Give me a girl who only gets going after ten!”
― Elizabeth Jane Howard, Mr Wrong

“It's not a luxury if you can't do without it!”
― Elizabeth Jane Howard, Mr. Wrong

“Why does getting ahead always have to involve getting up early?”
― Elizabeth Jane Howard, Mr. Wrong

“Some girls have a real sexy giggle, but whenever I laugh it always comes out somewhere between a bellow and a snort!”
― Elizabeth Jane Howard, Mr. Wrong

“When she was drinking his liquor and smoking his cigars, Charity couldn't help warming to Sir Humphrey. She almost forgot what a crashing bore he really was.”
― Elizabeth Jane Howard, Mr Wrong

“A good mystery keeps you up on Saturday night. A bad mystery puts you to sleep on Sunday afternoon. Either way, you come out ahead.”
― Elizabeth Jane Howard

“Love is neither a conditional business nor an ever-fixed mark arrangement. People always know somewhere inside them if they are not loved. No gestures, talk, conciliation, pronouncements can prevail over that deep instinctual knowledge.”
― Elizabeth Jane Howard

“Charity knew there was nothing more coarse and common than an afternoon in bed with a total stranger -- but the lad installing the telephone had a grin that made her heart turn flips.”
― Elizabeth Jane Howard, Mr. Wrong

“Charity groped for the phone, coming up with it at last and croaking "hello" in a voice that sounded exactly like a bullfrog's mating call. Which made a kind of twisted sense -- last night she'd been hunting for a mate as well.”
― Elizabeth Jane Howard, Mr. Wrong

“Charity could chatter dorm-room Marxist theory with the best of them, but a single look from cool, silver-haired Lady Beddington was enough to make her tremble from head to toe.”
― Elizabeth Jane Howard, Mr. Wrong