Elizabeth Jane Howard Quotes

It's better to oversleep and miss the boat than get up early and sink.

A rainy day is like a lovely gift -- you can sleep late and not feel guilty.

I'm not lazy. I'm just really gifted, only instead of being good at music or math I'm good at sleeping late.

When you fall asleep after a big lunch you're really just saving up energy to work off all the calories later on.

I think best in a hot bath, with my head tilted back and my feet up high.

You can't run from feelings, Charity. You have to face them. Otherwise your future will look just like your past.

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!

I have lived my life in the slipstream of experience

Holidays were invented so single women could overeat without feeling guilty.

Laughter is just like champagne -- only without the headache afterwards.

I'm not particularly keen on pity. Pity takes something away from grief. People think they're sharing it, but really they're just taking some. I prefer to keep my grief intact.

Why does getting ahead always have to involve getting up early?

Does breakfast in bed count as a morning workout?

It's not a luxury if you can't do without it!

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.

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.

You can't oversleep if you don't make plans to wake up early.

The real point of watching television is to forget that you have a brain.

Sir Humphrey looked like a sleepy old hippo -- and when he yawned in that big, big, hippopotamus way Charity couldn't help doing likewise.

Charity liked brandy. She liked the way it burned her throat while soothing the ache in her heart.