Wallis Simpson

PS: It's all gossip about the prince. I'm not in the habit of taking my girlfriends' beaux.

— Wallis Simpson

I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave.

— Wallis Simpson

A marriage, even one that goes awry, generates claims and needs that persist like an afterglow long after the emotional fire is…

— Wallis Simpson

All this was mine; but I was a long time learning that wisdom and experience are things apart; that to taste life…

— Wallis Simpson

You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance.

— Wallis Simpson

Fortunately for the human race, pain, however piercing, is not a lasting emotion. The recollection of happiness lingers, but the consciousness never…

— Wallis Simpson

Forgive me for not writing but this man is exhausting.

— Wallis Simpson

I never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascinating than any fashion…

— Wallis Simpson

Never explain, never complain.

— Wallis Simpson

For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.

— Wallis Simpson

There can be no summary and dramatic end to a marriage - only a slow and painful unravelling of a tangled skein…

— Wallis Simpson

You can never be too rich or too thin.

— Wallis Simpson

There can be nothing more baffling in a human relationship than silence, the dark loom of doubts and questions unexpressed.

— Wallis Simpson

I look a hundred and weigh 110 - you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.

— Wallis Simpson

I was a long time learning that wisdom and experience are things apart; that to taste life is not to be confused…

— Wallis Simpson

There is a peacefulness, an air of reflection, about a rocking-chair that attaches to no other moving object.

— Wallis Simpson

I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers.

— Wallis Simpson

I'm not a beautiful woman. I'm nothing to look at, so the only thing I can do is dress better than anyone…

— Wallis Simpson

The real essence of any marriage that has struggled, however unsuccessfully, towards happiness, lies in the growth of a wordless understanding that…

— Wallis Simpson

Sport hunting is a crime. My sympathies are with the fox.

— Wallis Simpson