Frasi di Helen Fielding

“It is a truth universally acknowledged that when one part of your life starts going okay, another falls spectacularly to pieces.”

Helen Fielding libro Il diario di Bridget Jones

“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 libro Il diario di Bridget Jones

“I will not fall for any of the following: alcoholics, workaholics, commitment phobics, people with girlfriends or wives, misogynists, megalomanics, chauvists, emotional fuckwits or freeloaders, perverts.”

Helen Fielding libro Il diario di Bridget Jones

“Tom has a theory that homosexuals and single women in their thirties have natural bonding: both being accustomed to disappointing their parents and being treated as freaks by society.”

Helen Fielding libro Il diario di Bridget Jones

“I like you very much. Just as you are.”

Helen Fielding libro Il diario di Bridget Jones

“I will not get upset over men, but instead be poised and cool ice-queen.”

Helen Fielding libro Il diario di Bridget Jones

“It is proved by surveys that happiness does not come from love, wealth, or power but the pursuit of attainable goals.”

Helen Fielding libro Il diario di Bridget Jones

“But if you are single the last thing you want is your best friend forming a functional relationship with somebody else.”

Helen Fielding libro Il diario di Bridget Jones

“Thank you, Daniel, that is very good to know. But if staying here means working within 10 yards of you, frankly, I'd rather have a job wiping Saddam Hussein's arse.”

Helen Fielding libro Il diario di Bridget Jones

“Don't say 'what,' say 'pardon,' darling, and do as your mother tells you.”

Helen Fielding libro Il diario di Bridget Jones

“I'm no good at anything. Not men. Not social skills. Not work. Nothing.”

Helen Fielding libro Il diario di Bridget Jones

“When someone loves you it's like having a blanket all round your heart…”

Helen Fielding libro Il diario di Bridget Jones

“Oh God, what's wrong with me? Why does nothing ever work out?”

Helen Fielding libro Il diario di Bridget Jones

“Emotional fuckwittage”

Helen Fielding libro Il diario di Bridget Jones

“Come on, let's get you a drink. How's your love life, anyway?

Oh God. Why can't married people understand that this is no longer a polite question to ask? We wouldn't rush up to them and roar, "How's your marriage going? Still have sex?”

Helen Fielding libro Il diario di Bridget Jones

“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. I can't take the pressure.”

Helen Fielding

“Sink into morbid, cynical reflection on how much romantic heartbreak is to do with ego and miffed pride rather than actual loss”

Helen Fielding libro Il diario di Bridget Jones

“Eventually, I manage to cheer Mum up by allowing her to go through my wardrobe and criticize all my clothes…”

Helen Fielding

“One must not live one's life through men but must be complete on oneself as a woman of substance.”

Helen Fielding libro Il diario di Bridget Jones

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

Helen Fielding libro Il diario di Bridget Jones

“.. we were always taught, instead of waiting to be swept off our feet, to 'expect little, forgive much'.”

Helen Fielding libro Il diario di Bridget Jones

“Oh God. valentine's Day tomorrow. Why? Why? Why is (the) entire world geared to make people not involved in romance feel stupid when everyone knows romance does not work anyway. Look at (the) royal family. Look at Mum and Dad.”

Helen Fielding libro Il diario di Bridget Jones