Wallis Simpson Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

A 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.

For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.

Forgive me for not writing but this man is exhausting.

I 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.

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

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

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

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

I'm nothing to look at, so the only thing I can do is dress better than anyone else.

Never explain, never complain.

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

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Trivia

Measurements: 34-25-34

Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume Two, 1986-1990, pages 911-912. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999.