Quotes from Helen Fielding

Une femme doit savoir en quoi elle croit, sinon, comment les autres pourraient croire en elle ?

Ce qui est un vrai succès dans la vie d'adulte, ce n'est pas de gagner tout le temps, mais d'être capable de gérer l'échec.

Trentaine : Les hommes sont en position de pouvoir. Je pense sincèrement que la trentaine est l'âge le pire pour une femme côté rencontres : le tic-tac de l'horloge biologique très injuste se fait entendre de plus en plus fort.

Just Ã¢â'¬Â¦ in Ã¢â'¬Â¦ a meeting!" How could I be in a meeting, and yet talking on the phone saying I'm in a meeting? People's assistants are meant to say they're in a meeting, not the person themself, who is supposed to be unable to say anything because they're in the meeting.

What a blessing to be born with such Sloaney arrogance. Perpetua could be the size of a Renault Espace and not give it a thought.

On ne risque jamais de faire fausse route en disant la vérité.

Está probado por las encuestas que la felicidad no la da el amor, la riqueza o el poder, sino la búsqueda de metas inalcanzables: ¿y qué es una dieta si no es esto?

Gastar dinero en: máquinas para hacer pasta, máquinas para hacer helados, u otros aparatos culinarios que nunca utilizaré; libros de autores ilegibles para colocar presuntuosamente en las estanterías; ropa interior exótica, ya que, al no tener novio, carece de sentido.

Por qué, cuando las personas dejan a sus parejas porque están teniendo un lío con otra persona, creen mejor hacer ver que no hay nadie más involucrado? ... Es lo mismo que esas personas que inventan una mentira como excusa en lugar de decir la verdad, aunque la verdad sea mejor que la mentira.

Puedo confirmar de manera oficial que hoy en día no se llega al corazón de un hombre a través de la belleza, la comida, el sexo o un carácter seductor, sino simplemente aparentando que no estás muy interesada en él.

Jadi, cetus Cosmo seraya menuangkan minuman untukku. Bagaiman kehidupan cintamu? Ya ampun. Kenapa sih mereka bertanya begitu? Kenapa? Mungkin Suami-Istri-Puas-Diri hanya bergaul dengan sesama Suami-Istri-Puas-Diri dan tidak tahu lagi bagaimana berinteraksi dengan individu lain. Mungkin mereka memang ingin merendahkan dan membuat kami merasa seperti manusia gagal. - Bridget Jones's Diary hlm.63

Oh, Tuhan. Besok Hari Valentine. Mengapa? Mengapa? Mengapa seluruh dunia diperlengkapi untuk menjadikan orang yang tidak terlibat asmara merasa tolol, padahal semua orang tahu percintaan tidak berjalan lancar. Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding hlm.76

I love Magda and Jeremy. Sometimes | stay at their house, admiring the crisp sheets and many storage jars full of different kinds of pasta, imagining that they are my parents.

It seems wrong and unfair that Christmas, with its stressful and unmanageable financial and emotional challenges, should first be forced upon one wholly against one's will, then rudely snatched away just when one is starting to get into it.

Where is the tuna? Where? Where?

Oh, darling, you can't go around with that tatty green canvas thing. You look like some sort of Mary Poppins person who's fallen on hard times.

Our culture is too obsessed with outward appearance, age and status. Love is what matters.

It is with great regret that we must announce that so great was Miss Budget Jones's distress at not being able to accept the kind invitation of Mr. Mark Darcy that she has offed herself and will therefore, more certainly than ever, now, be unable to accept Mr. Mark Darcy's kind.

It struck me as pretty ridiculous to be called Mr Darcy and to stand on your own looking snooty at a party. It's like being called Heathcliff and insisting on spending the entire evening in the garden, shouting 'Cathy' and banging your head against a tree.

I sat, head down, quivering furiously at their inferences of female sell-by dates and life as game of musical chairs where girls without a chair/man when the music stops/they pass thirty are 'out.' Huh. As if.

All you do is not eat any food which you have to pay for. So at the start of the diet you're a bit porky and no one asks you out to dinner. Then you lose weight and get a bit leggy and shag-me hippy and people start taking you out for meals. So then you put a few pounds on, the invitations trail off and you start losing weight again.

I hadn't been there ten minutes before there were three turds on the carpet.

I think it would be much more sensible if resolutions began generally on January the second.

Realise, as the long hot days freakishly repeat themselves, one after the other, that whatever I am doing I really think I ought to be doing something else.