Top 99 Quotes by Julie Burchill

About Julie Burchill

These are some quotes by British author Julie Burchill Journalist, who was born on July 3, 1959.

Gluttony and idleness are two of life's great joys, but they are not honourable.

Gluttony and idleness are two of life's great joys, but they are not honourable.

Julie Burchill

Shame, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder.

Shame, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder.

Julie Burchill

There's something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times - one thinks of those wonderful women during World War II drawing stocking seams in eyebrow pencil up the back of legs stained with gravy browning because nylons were so hard to get hold of.

Julie Burchill

Show me a frigid women and, nine times out of ten, I'll show you a little man.

Show me a frigid women and, nine times out of ten, I'll show you a little man.

Julie Burchill

It may be a cliche, but it's true - the build-up to Christmas is so much more pleasurable than the actual day itself.

It may be a cliche, but it's true - the build-up to Christmas is so much more pleasurable than the actual day itself.

Julie Burchill

The truth of the matter is, beauty is a specific thing, rare and fleeting. Some of us have it in our teens, 20s and 30s and then lose it; most of us have it not at all. And that's perfectly okay. But lying to yourself that you have it when you don't seems to me simple-minded at best and psychotic at worst.

Julie Burchill

Women, more often than not, do things which aren't remotely relaxing but are all about preening, which is just another sort of work.

Women, more often than not, do things which aren't remotely relaxing but are all about preening, which is just another sort of work.

Julie Burchill

The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion; things to make life easier for men, in fact.

The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion; things to make life easier for men, in fact.

Julie Burchill

To believe that one, or even three, mates can supply all the things one needs from one's friends is as stupid as believing married couples must do everything together.

To believe that one, or even three, mates can supply all the things one needs from one's friends is as stupid as believing married couples must do everything together.

Julie Burchill

Is the raggle-taggle Brangelina tribe any more bogus than that of the landlocked yummy mummy who believes that she can drop half a dozen brats and still keep a modest carbon footprint? I don't think so.

Julie Burchill

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