Shirley Conran Quotes

I think it's a pretty good day if I can get through it without lifting a finger.

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it.

Given the choice between accomplishing something and just lying around, I'd rather lie around. No contest.

I'm very, very lazy. I love to sit in a chair and look out the window and do nothing.

When I don't feel like working, I don't.

What is going to happen in the course of my day that will be an improvement over lying on something very soft, underneath something very warm, wearing only underwear, doing absolutely nothing, all by myself?

I'm just really a lazy homebody.

I'm just a lazy boy. I'd rather sit in my recliner and act.

I am so busy doing nothing... that the idea of doing anything - which as you know, always leads to something - cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything.

I am capable of being idle.

We're both very very lazy, and having someone else do half the work is very convenient.

Believe me, nobody likes to loaf more than me.

I am lazy.

In both word and deed, one of the greatest idlers of all time was John Lennon. In his songs we see repeated defences of simply lying around doing nothing.

I'm a lazy creature when I'm not acting.

Doing nothing is very hard to do... you never know when you're finished.

Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.

We are fixed with every convenience, long desks, easy revolving chairs, footstools, plenty of servants and no specific work to be done.

I don't want to be the guy who sits on a front porch with a mint julep in his hand and rocks his life away.

In Africa, we filled up all available time busily doing not much, and then we wasted the rest.

I am terribly lazy. So, if I don't have to get out of the house, I will sleep away the entire day.

If I could stay in a dressing gown all day I would.

I want to be lazier. This is the luxurious dream I have: Doing nothing all day, just watching the clouds and DVDs.

I'm just generally lazy.

I am a great one for just taking it easy and lazing around.