Life & Wisdom Quote by Jackie Collins

Jackie Collins delivers a perfectly practiced kind of celebrity warmth: affectionate, breezy, and just slippery enough to offend no one. The comic engine here is escalation followed by self-correction. She starts with the big, flattering gesture - “I always try to make a point” - signaling intention, not accident, as if Melbourne is a chosen intimacy. Then she pivots into an almost-favorite, a ranking that wants the thrill of preference without the consequences of actually choosing. “Melbourne and Sydney” turns a single favorite into a duet, a diplomatic bundle that mirrors how public figures learn to manage regional rivalries.

The subtext is less about geography than about audience management. Australia’s city identities can be tribal, and Collins, a novelist whose brand traded in social politics and glamorous pecking orders, understands how quickly a “favorite” becomes a headline. So she performs the dodge in real time: “I shouldn’t say that because I haven’t been everywhere.” It’s a wink at her own authority - she both asserts taste and politely disqualifies it.

Then she throws Perth a bouquet, not because Perth was secretly the point, but because the quote is functioning like a soft-focus PR tour: spread the affection, keep it personal, keep it light. What makes it work is the candid rhythm. It reads like thought catching up with speech, a little flustered, which sells sincerity even as it executes a careful, reputationally safe balancing act. Collins isn’t mapping Australia; she’s mapping how to be liked in public.