There 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 Simpson

All 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 understa…

- 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

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

- Wallis Simpson

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 …

- Wallis Simpson

You can never be too rich or too thin.

- Wallis Simpson

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 …

- 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 else.

- Wallis Simpson

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

- Wallis Simpson