Jilly Cooper
Jilly Cooper
Jilly Cooper OBEis an English author. 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...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth21 February 1937
new-year party years
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.
new-year party years
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.
running work reading
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.
work should-have office
The memo's chief function ... is as a track-coverer, so that you can turn on someone six months later and snarl: 'Well, you should have known about it, I sent you a memo.
work office paper
Although it is the biggest time-waster in office life, you must never underrate the importance of the memo. You will be judged by the volume of your paper work.
work nice office
Always be nice to everyone in the firm on the way up. You never know who you may meet on the way down.
party want cocktails
Meetings ... are rather like cocktail parties. You don't want to go, but you're cross not to be asked.
home holiday way
I'm not wild about holidays. They always seem a ludicrously expensive way of proving there's no place like home.
used cooks dazzling
Leo, sadly, has Parkinsons, but he used to cook all sorts of dazzling things.
book writing people
People who can write a book usually do.
years ideas bored
it's a good idea to wait a few months before joining anything when you arrive at a village. A bookseller friend who retired to nearby Oxfordshire, and was worried he might be bored, got himself on to every village committee in the first six months, and spent the next ten years extricating himself.
morning fighting finding-yourself
in a village you can't sack or fight with someone, as you'll find yourself stuck beside them in the hairdresser's next morning.
girl people choices
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 ...
england praying workshops
There is something infinitely dingy about the word workshop. Pray that England doesn't become a nation of workshopkeepers.