I've never been more famous than I was, suddenly, in 1986.

- Wendy Cope

Possibly I've become less funny as I've been happier.

- Wendy Cope

I have a theory that if you've got the kind of parents who want to send you to boarding school, you're probably better off at boarding school.

- Wendy Cope

Some socks are loners They can't live in pairs.

- Wendy Cope

I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you should write what you have to write, and if you'r…

- Wendy Cope

I was single for a long time and felt very much alone in the world, and talk of family values upset me very much at that phase in my life, because I …

- Wendy Cope

I've said what I'm prepared to say in my poems, and then journalists think that you're going to tell them a whole lot more.

- Wendy Cope

Bloody Christmas, here again, let us raise a loving cup, peace on earth, goodwill to men, and make them do the washing up.

- Wendy Cope

The interesting thing is that you don't often meet a poet who doesn't have a sense of humour, and some of them do keep it out of their poems because …

- Wendy Cope