Wallis Simpson Quotes

For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.

I'm not a beautiful woman. I'm nothing to look at, so the only thing I can do is dress better than anyone else.

You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance.

I was a long time learning that wisdom and experience are things apart; that to taste life is not to be confused with understanding what life is really all about.

I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave.

I never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascinating than any fashion salon.

Never explain, never complain.

I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers.

You can never be too rich or too thin.

I look a hundred and weigh 110 - you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.

Sport hunting is a crime. My sympathies are with the fox.

There is a peacefulness, an air of reflection, about a rocking-chair that attaches to no other moving object.

I am so anxious for you not to abdicate and I think the fact that you do is going to put me in the wrong light to the entire world because they will say that I could have prevented it.

There can be nothing more baffling in a human relationship than silence, the dark loom of doubts and questions unexpressed.

There can be no summary and dramatic end to a marriage - only a slow and painful unravelling of a tangled skein of threads too stubborn to be broken.

A marriage, even one that goes awry, generates claims and needs that persist like an afterglow long after the emotional fire is burned out.

A woman's life can really be a succession of lives each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge and each marked off by some intense experience.