I never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascinating than any fashion salon.
Wallis SimpsonThere can be nothing more baffling in a human relationship than silence, the dark loom of doubts and questions unexpressed.
Wallis SimpsonThere can be no summary and dramatic end to a marriage - only a slow and painful unravelling of a tangled skein of threads too stubborn to be broken.
Wallis SimpsonI 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.
Wallis SimpsonI was a long time learning that wisdom and experience are things apart; that to taste life is not to be confused with understanding what life is really all about.
Wallis SimpsonI'm not a beautiful woman. I'm nothing to look at, so the only thing I can do is dress better than anyone else.
Wallis SimpsonAll this was mine; but I was a long time learning that wisdom and experience are things apart; that to taste life is not to be confused with understanding what life is really all about. The shared experiences, the wisdom so freely proffered by others, in words and in example, rarely swayed me for long. Came another day and the import was gone, and only the echo of the laughter remained. Experience was a revolving sun in the warmth of which I was content to bask.
Wallis SimpsonI look a hundred and weigh 110 - you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.
Wallis SimpsonThere is a peacefulness, an air of reflection, about a rocking-chair that attaches to no other moving object.
Wallis SimpsonFortunately for the human race, pain, however piercing, is not a lasting emotion. The recollection of happiness lingers, but the consciousness never retains for long the first thrust of tragic loss. The details of daily life crowd in upon the mind.
Wallis SimpsonA 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.
Wallis Simpson