The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness and kindness, can be trained to do most things.
- Jilly Cooper
Most, Domestic, Which, Firmness
I'm basically a very happy person and I don't have to be anybody else.
- Jilly Cooper
Person, Anybody, Very, Happy Person
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
House, Saved, Riders, Ought
Leo, sadly, has Parkinson's, but he used to cook all sorts of dazzling things.
- Jilly Cooper
Cook, Leo, Sadly, Parkinson
And I would really like to be a grandmother, but only when Felix or Emily meet the right person and are ready.
- Jilly Cooper
Grandmother, Right, Like, Emily
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
Love, Go, Tell, Family And Friends
I love the long grass coming up to meet the willows.
- Jilly Cooper
Love, Nature, I Love, Grass
I was so flattered that someone wanted me to write a book, I said I would. It was published in 1969.
- Jilly Cooper
Someone, Wanted, Flattered, Published
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.
- Jilly Cooper
Book, Got, Oh God, Processing
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
Think, Like, About, Mural
Never drink black coffee at lunch; it will keep you awake all afternoon.
- Jilly Cooper
Lunch, Never, Afternoon, Awake
For sheer sexiness, a man must be beautiful. Funny. yes. Clever, no.
- Jilly Cooper
Beautiful, Clever, Yes, Sexiness
I think it bespeaks a generous nature, a man who can cook.
- Jilly Cooper
Nature, Think, I Think, Generous
I wrote my earliest piece for The Sunday Times about being a young wife.
- Jilly Cooper
Young, Times, Piece, Sunday
At home I have big vats of cabbage soup that I make to slim down.
- Jilly Cooper
Big, Soup, Cabbage, Slim
I have a theory that the secret of marital happiness is simple: drink in different pubs to your other half.
- Jilly Cooper
Other, Pubs, Half, Theory
But really I'm not terribly interested in what I eat.
- Jilly Cooper
Eat, Interested, Really, Terribly
I would really like to spend more time with the family. Every time I go abroad I miss them all dreadfully.
- Jilly Cooper
Go, More, Like, Abroad
There is nothing more attractive than a man who is not a New Man.
- Jilly Cooper
New, Nothing, More, Attractive
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