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Top 20 Shirley Conran Quotes (2025 Update)

Shirley Conran Quote: “First things first, second things never.”

1. “First things first, second things never.”

— Shirley Conran

Shirley Conran Quote: “Loss of innocence comes when you have to deal with the real world by yourself, when you learn that the first rule of life is kill or be killed.”

2. “Loss of innocence comes when you have to deal with the real world by yourself, when you learn that the first rule of life is kill or be killed.”

— Shirley Conran

Shirley Conran Quote: “If you don’t dare, you are doomed to dullness...”

3. “If you don’t dare, you are doomed to dullness...”

— Shirley Conran

Shirley Conran Quote: “Life is too short to stuff a mushroom.”

4. “Life is too short to stuff a mushroom.”

— Shirley Conran

Shirley Conran Quote: “A Superwoman isn’t a woman who can do anything, but a woman who avoids doing too much.”

5. “A Superwoman isn’t a woman who can do anything, but a woman who avoids doing too much.”

— Shirley Conran

Shirley Conran Quote: “Self-confidence is the most important thing, and this comes from identifying your goals, knowing your limits and roping in all the help you can get.”

6. “Self-confidence is the most important thing, and this comes from identifying your goals, knowing your limits and roping in all the help you can get.”

— Shirley Conran

Shirley Conran Quote: “I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it.”

7. “I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it.”

— Shirley Conran

Shirley Conran Quote: “You’re never too old to grow up.”

8. “You’re never too old to grow up.”

— Shirley Conran

Shirley Conran Quote: “I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you’re going to be lazy.”

9. “I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if you’re going to be lazy.”

— Shirley Conran

Shirley Conran Quote: “At eighteen I thought I knew everything, then at thirty, I realized that I knew nothing – and possibly never would, which depressed me until I noticed that no one else knew anything either.”

10. “At eighteen I thought I knew everything, then at thirty, I realized that I knew nothing – and possibly never would, which depressed me until I noticed that no one else knew anything either.”

— Shirley Conran

Shirley Conran Quote: “Loneliness from time to time was the price of freedom, and freedom wasn’t a stars and stripes, Boy Scout idea, it was doing what you damn well wanted to do – all the time.”

11. “Loneliness from time to time was the price of freedom, and freedom wasn’t a stars and stripes, Boy Scout idea, it was doing what you damn well wanted to do – all the time.”

— Shirley Conran

Shirley Conran Quote: “You became an adult when you stopped caring what other people thought about you and started to care what you thought about them.”

12. “You became an adult when you stopped caring what other people thought about you and started to care what you thought about them.”

— Shirley Conran

Shirley Conran Quote: “That was the problem. Somehow you got this feeling that a dependent woman was feminine and an independent woman wasn’t feminine, that it was unfeminine to be responsible for yourself.”

13. “That was the problem. Somehow you got this feeling that a dependent woman was feminine and an independent woman wasn’t feminine, that it was unfeminine to be responsible for yourself.”

— Shirley Conran

Shirley Conran Quote: “Conran’s Law of Housework – it expands to fill the time available plus half an hour.”

14. “Conran’s Law of Housework – it expands to fill the time available plus half an hour.”

— Shirley Conran

Shirley Conran Quote: “With color, for the price of a pot of paint, people can express their own style and individuality. But, as with style, a gift for color has to be developed by experiment. If you don’t dare, you are doomed to dullness.”

15. “With color, for the price of a pot of paint, people can express their own style and individuality. But, as with style, a gift for color has to be developed by experiment. If you don’t dare, you are doomed to dullness.”

— Shirley Conran

Shirley Conran Quote: “I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it.”

16. “I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it.”

— Shirley Conran

Shirley Conran Quote: “Losing your innocence has very little to do with virginity, you know. Loss of innocence comes when you have to deal with the real world by yourself, when you learn that the first rule of life is kill or be killed. So different from one’s nursery stories.” She.”

17. “Losing your innocence has very little to do with virginity, you know. Loss of innocence comes when you have to deal with the real world by yourself, when you learn that the first rule of life is kill or be killed. So different from one’s nursery stories.” She.”

— Shirley Conran

Shirley Conran Quote: “Being pregnant was, well, inconceivable.”

18. “Being pregnant was, well, inconceivable.”

— Shirley Conran

Shirley Conran Quote: “I wish we hadn’t picked up the idea that you were a failure if you didn’t have a man because then you would be without status and protection.”

19. “I wish we hadn’t picked up the idea that you were a failure if you didn’t have a man because then you would be without status and protection.”

— Shirley Conran

Shirley Conran Quote: “The difference between a career and a job,” Judy had once told her, “is that a job gets you nowhere. If you plan a career, then a job should be a step toward a definite goal – when you accept a job you should know exactly when you intend to leave it.”

20. “The difference between a career and a job,” Judy had once told her, “is that a job gets you nowhere. If you plan a career, then a job should be a step toward a definite goal – when you accept a job you should know exactly when you intend to leave it.”

— Shirley Conran

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