CategoryRomance

We’re all fools in love

Helen Fielding – Bridget Jones Diary

Can officially confirm that the way to a man’s heart these days is not through beauty, food, sex, or alluringness of character, but merely the ability to seem not very interested in him.

Helen Fielding – Bridget Jones Diary

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.

Helen Fielding – Bridget Jones Diary

Resolution number one: Obviously will lose twenty pounds. Number two: Always put last night’s panties in the laundry basket.

Helen Fielding – Bridget Jones Diary

There’s nothing so unattractive to a man as strident feminism.

Helen Fielding – Bridget Jones Diary

When someone leaves you, apart from missing them, apart from the fact that the whole little world you’ve created together collapses, and that everything you see or do reminds you of them, the worst is the thought that they tried you out and, in the end, the whole sum of parts adds up to you got stamped REJECT by the one you love.

Helen Fielding – Bridget Jones Diary

I’m not good at advice. Can I interest you in a sarcastic comment?

Helen Fielding – Bridget Jones Diary

You’ll never get a boyfriend if you look like you wandered out of Auschwitz.

Helen Fielding – Bridget Jones Diary

Valentine’s Day purely commercial, cynical enterprise, anyway. Matter of supreme indifference to me.

Helen Fielding – Bridget Jones Diary

I am a child of Cosmopolitan culture, have been traumatized by supermodels and too many quizzes and know that neither my personality nor my body is up to it if left to its own devices.

Helen Fielding – Bridget Jones Diary