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She looked as though everything that she didn't like had happened to her.

It's better to oversleep and miss the boat than get up early and sink.

It's not a luxury if you can't do without it!

Conducting in a church in London where, he said,

Why does getting ahead always have to involve getting up early?

You can't oversleep if you don't make plans to wake up early.

Sex is like petrol. It's a galvaniser, a wonderful fuel for starting a relationship.

Sir Humphrey looked like a sleepy old hippo
and when he yawned in that big, big, hippopotamus way Charity couldn't help doing likewise.

The real point of watching television is to forget that you have a brain.

Why can't they invent a pill that will keep you from remembering someone you don't want to remember?

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

I've got lots of ambitions, but I only ever think of them when I'm lying around in my undies having a snooze.

Does breakfast in bed count as a morning workout?

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

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.

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

Charity liked brandy. She liked the way it burned her throat while soothing the ache in her heart.

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

A good mystery keeps you up on Saturday night. A bad mystery puts you to sleep on Sunday afternoon. Either way, you come out ahead.

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

Dessert doesn't count if you're sharing someone else's.

I have lived my life in the slipstream of experience

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

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

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

Laughter is just like champagne
only without the headache afterwards.

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

She laughed at bad jokes, stayed out too late, and overslept too often. Charity Hill loved holidays and she hated budgets and the alarm clock.