Elizabeth Jane Howard Quotes
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It's better to oversleep and miss the boat than get up early and sink.
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I've got lots of ambitions, but I only ever think of them when I'm lying around in my undies having a snooze.
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How the alternative reduces one's prospect and petrifies the imagination in a way that the possibility can never do. Possibilities, innumerable and tightly packed, could shower forth like mushroom spore between such alternatives as being here, or there; alive, or dead; and old, or young.
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I think best in a hot bath, with my head tilted back and my feet up high.
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I'm not lazy. I'm just really gifted, only instead of being good at music or math I'm good at sleeping late.
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If people had to spend all of every day getting enough food to eat like animals, they wouldn’t have time to make aeroplanes or bombs.
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This duel of consideration for one another that they had conducted for the last sixteen years involved shifting the truth about between them or withholding it altogether and was called good manners or affection, supposed to smooth the humdrum or prickly path of everyday married life. Its tyranny was apparent to neither.
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The craze of genealogy is connected with the epidemic for divorce. If we can't figure out who our living relatives are, then maybe we'll have more luck with the dead ones.
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In a way, an autobiography seems to me like a household book of accounts – what has been acquired, to what purpose has it been put, was too much paid for it and did it teach you anything? How much has been learned by experience? Have I discovered where I am useful and useless, how I am nourished and starved?
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Alone, without the looking-glass of another person’s presence, the mirrors of the imagination sometimes effect cunning distortions.
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Laughter is just like champagne -- only without the headache afterwards.
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Charity felt rather snoozy after the long sermon, and she was really very grateful when Reverend Meeps offered her a cup of tea. Church was not so bad when the minister remembered you were only human.
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Holidays were invented so single women could overeat without feeling guilty.
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Why do they call them daytime dramas, anyway? Shouldn't they be bedtime dramas? All anyone ever talks about is getting someone into bed! Plus if you're at home watching, you're probably watching in bed. And if you're like me, after an hour or two of watching all those sexy goings-on you forget the silly story entirely and fall asleep. Just like it's bedtime!
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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.
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She looked as though everything that she didn't like had happened to her.
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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.
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Her time with him had very quickly started to feel unreal so that she could hardly believe her own memory of it.
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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.
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It's not a luxury if you can't do without it!
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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.
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When you fall asleep after a big lunch you're really just saving up energy to work off all the calories later on.
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Dessert doesn't count if you're sharing someone else's.
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It seemed awful that the only things she knew about him were those that made him miserable.