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Top 20 Elizabeth Jane Howard Quotes (2025 Update)

Elizabeth Jane Howard Quote: “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!”

1. “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!”

— Elizabeth Jane Howard

Elizabeth Jane Howard Quote: “I’m not lazy. I’m just really gifted, only instead of being good at music or math I’m good at sleeping late.”

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

— Elizabeth Jane Howard

Elizabeth Jane Howard Quote: “A rainy day is like a lovely gift – you can sleep late and not feel guilty.”

3. “A rainy day is like a lovely gift – you can sleep late and not feel guilty.”

— Elizabeth Jane Howard

Elizabeth Jane Howard Quote: “It’s better to oversleep and miss the boat than get up early and sink.”

4. “It’s better to oversleep and miss the boat than get up early and sink.”

— Elizabeth Jane Howard

Elizabeth Jane Howard Quote: “Why does getting ahead always have to involve getting up early?”

5. “Why does getting ahead always have to involve getting up early?”

— Elizabeth Jane Howard

Elizabeth Jane Howard Quote: “It’s not a luxury if you can’t do without it!”

6. “It’s not a luxury if you can’t do without it!”

— Elizabeth Jane Howard

Elizabeth Jane Howard Quote: “You can’t run from feelings, Charity. You have to face them. Otherwise your future will look just like your past.”

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

— Elizabeth Jane Howard

Elizabeth Jane Howard Quote: “Some girls have a real sexy giggle, but whenever I laugh it always comes out somewhere between a bellow and a snort!”

8. “Some girls have a real sexy giggle, but whenever I laugh it always comes out somewhere between a bellow and a snort!”

— Elizabeth Jane Howard

Elizabeth Jane Howard Quote: “Does breakfast in bed count as a morning workout?”

9. “Does breakfast in bed count as a morning workout?”

— Elizabeth Jane Howard

Elizabeth Jane Howard Quote: “I have lived my life in the slipstream of experience.”

10. “I have lived my life in the slipstream of experience.”

— Elizabeth Jane Howard

Elizabeth Jane Howard Quote: “Laughter is just like champagne – only without the headache afterwards.”

11. “Laughter is just like champagne – only without the headache afterwards.”

— Elizabeth Jane Howard

Elizabeth Jane Howard Quote: “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.”

12. “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.”

— Elizabeth Jane Howard

Elizabeth Jane Howard Quote: “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.”

13. “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.”

— Elizabeth Jane Howard

Elizabeth Jane Howard Quote: “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.”

14. “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.”

— Elizabeth Jane Howard

Elizabeth Jane Howard Quote: “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.”

15. “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.”

— Elizabeth Jane Howard

Elizabeth Jane Howard Quote: “Mrs Downs, a large sad lady who described herself, to Rupert’s delight, as bulky but fragile, now came four mornings a week to clean the house. She was one of those people who habitually looked on the black side of everything with a cheerfulness that bordered upon the macabre.”

16. “Mrs Downs, a large sad lady who described herself, to Rupert’s delight, as bulky but fragile, now came four mornings a week to clean the house. She was one of those people who habitually looked on the black side of everything with a cheerfulness that bordered upon the macabre.”

— Elizabeth Jane Howard

Elizabeth Jane Howard Quote: “It was foolish to indulge in elaborate preconceptions: anticipation was a featherweight, doomed to compete with the inevitable, convincing bulk of reality. The trouble was that one had to face reality without knowing beforehand precisely what it was to be. One had somehow to discover and tread the hard, between the sloughs of fearing the worst and hoping for the best.”

17. “It was foolish to indulge in elaborate preconceptions: anticipation was a featherweight, doomed to compete with the inevitable, convincing bulk of reality. The trouble was that one had to face reality without knowing beforehand precisely what it was to be. One had somehow to discover and tread the hard, between the sloughs of fearing the worst and hoping for the best.”

— Elizabeth Jane Howard

Elizabeth Jane Howard Quote: “When you fall asleep after a big lunch you’re really just saving up energy to work off all the calories later on.”

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

— Elizabeth Jane Howard

Elizabeth Jane Howard Quote: “Sit down and tell me everything, child. Hurt feelings and hopeless despair are no match for tea and biscuits.”

19. “Sit down and tell me everything, child. Hurt feelings and hopeless despair are no match for tea and biscuits.”

— Elizabeth Jane Howard

Elizabeth Jane Howard Quote: “Holidays were invented so single women could overeat without feeling guilty.”

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

— Elizabeth Jane Howard

Elizabeth Jane Howard Quote: “Charity groped for the phone, coming up with it at last and croaking “hello” in a voice that sounded exactly like a bullfrog’s mating call. Which made a kind of twisted sense – last night she’d been hunting for a mate as well.”

21. “Charity groped for the phone, coming up with it at last and croaking “hello” in a voice that sounded exactly like a bullfrog’s mating call. Which made a kind of twisted sense – last night she’d been hunting for a mate as well.”

— Elizabeth Jane Howard

Elizabeth Jane Howard Quote: “Sir Humphrey’s stories about Africa made Charity feel exactly like one of his stuffed trophy heads – lifeless and glassy eyed. The only difference was that she usually ended up face-down, slumbering on the sofa, instead of hung up on the wall.”

22. “Sir Humphrey’s stories about Africa made Charity feel exactly like one of his stuffed trophy heads – lifeless and glassy eyed. The only difference was that she usually ended up face-down, slumbering on the sofa, instead of hung up on the wall.”

— Elizabeth Jane Howard

Elizabeth Jane Howard Quote: “What I like about limousines is they have tinted windows, so no-one can see if you’re snogging in the back seat.”

23. “What I like about limousines is they have tinted windows, so no-one can see if you’re snogging in the back seat.”

— Elizabeth Jane Howard

Elizabeth Jane Howard Quote: “I think best in a hot bath, with my head tilted back and my feet up high.”

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

— Elizabeth Jane Howard

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