Top 20 Quotes by Peter Mayle

You don't like it when a French housewife gets mad at you. If she gets steam behind her, she is an unstoppable creature.

I have a very set routine. I work six days a week, but only half days. I work from 9 in the morning till 1 in the afternoon, without any interruptions, a fair slug.

I left school at 16 and skipped university to work, initially as a waiter. I think I missed out on what would have been great years.

I have a robust sense of humour which helps me deal with problems.

I am a great believer in people taking control of their own lives.

One must never forget that life is unfair. But sometimes, with a bit of luck, this works in your favour.

Sundays in France have a different atmosphere to other days, with fewer phone calls, no postman, no delivery men and no one banging on the door.

I was lucky enough to spend some of my school days in Barbados, where my father was working, and this gave me a taste for hot weather.

I don't have a boss. Well, I have a boss: the public. If the public doesn't buy my books, I would be out of a job.

I would dearly love to resist the temptation, if you can call it that, to worry. It's boring, it's anti-social, it's unproductive and it's depressing.