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.

For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.

You can never be too rich or too thin.

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

PS: It's all gossip about the prince. I'm not in the habit of taking my girlfriends' beaux.

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.

Forgive me for not writing but this man is exhausting.

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

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