Top 44 Barbara Cartland Quotes
#1. Probably every book I read influenced me in some small way. Authors like Jan Westcott, Kathleen Winsor, Catherine Cookson, Georgette Heyer, and even Barbara Cartland taught me to write character-driven stories.
Virginia Henley
#2. I never met Barbara Cartland. But now that I'm working on her life, I wish I had. I think there was a lot of pathos in it and I'm intrigued by her.
Mel Smith
#3. I can still remember my mum (a voracious, if not discriminating, reader - I have seen everything from the sublime to the ridiculous by her bed, from Ian Rankin and Elmore Leonard to Barbara Cartland and James Patterson) taking me to get my library card when I was four and not yet at school.
John Niven
#4. I'm one of those that believes you can't be one kind of a man and another kind of president.
Phil McGraw
#5. What am I supposed to do, Sit around and wait for you? Well I can't do that, And there's no turning back. I need time to move on, I need love to feel strong. Cause I've got time to think it through, And maybe I'm too good for you!
Cher
#6. France is the only place where you can make love in the afternoon without people hammering on your door.
Barbara Cartland
#7. I consider myself an expert on love, sex and health. Without health you can have very little of the other two.
Barbara Cartland
#9. It turns out that strong typing does not eliminate the need for careful testing. And I have found in my work that the sorts of errors that strong type checking finds are no the errors I worry about.
Douglas Crockford
#10. Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.
Barbara Cartland
#11. A woman should say: 'Have I made him happy? Is he satisfied? Does he love me more than he loved me before? Is he likely to go to bed with another woman?' If he does, then it's the wife's fault because she is not trying to make him happy.
Barbara Cartland
#12. A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
Barbara Cartland
#13. A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.
Barbara Cartland
#14. The right diet directs sexual energy into the parts that matter.
Barbara Cartland
#15. To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her.
Barbara Cartland
#16. I always wear boot polish on my eyelashes, because I am a very emotional person and it doesn't run when I cry.
Barbara Cartland
#17. I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.
Barbara Cartland
#19. Every woman dreams of love. When she is young she prays she will find it. When she is middle aged she hopes for it and when she is old she remembers it.
Barbara Cartland
#20. Listen, involve, synergize at work. Then you will bury the old and create an entirely new winning culture which will unleash people's talents and create complementary teams where strengths are made productive and weakness are made irrelevant through the strengths of others.
Stephen Covey
#21. My heroines are always virgins. They never go to bed without a ring on their fingers; not until page 118 at least.
Barbara Cartland
#22. I knew I hated him as only a woman can hate a man, as only a slave can hate his master.
Nawal El Saadawi
#23. In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
William James
#24. The great mobility of the King forms one of the chief characteristics of all endgame strategy. In the middlegame the King is a mere 'super', in the endgame on the other hand - on of the 'principals'. We must therefore develop him, bring him nearer to the fighting line.
Aron Nimzowitsch
#25. At this moment, I know that the answer has to be yes. I am defeated. By my own father. How Darth Vader.
Denis Markell
#27. People don't roll around naked in my books. I do allow them to go to bed if they're married, but it's all very wonderful and the moon beams.
Barbara Cartland
#28. Look, it's three to one and your hands are tied' 'You're right,'Reyna growled.'Get another six of you in here and it might be a fair fight
Rick Riordan
#29. Good must triumph over evil. It usually does in life and in any case it's bad for young people to believe it doesn't.
Barbara Cartland
#30. The reason why Englishmen are the best husbands in the world is because they want to be faithful. A Frenchman or an Italian will wake up in the morning and wonder what girl he will meet. An Englishman wakes up and wonders what the cricket score is.
Barbara Cartland
#32. Change what you are doing; change your world. And if enough people do that, we can change the world.
Ken Robinson
#33. As long as the plots keep arriving from outer space, I'll go on with my virgins.
Barbara Cartland
#34. I like you a lot. Because you're funny and smart and because you seem to like me. I know that's not a good reason, but I can't help it; if a girl likes me I tend to like her back [ ... ] I like you for all this stuff but I also kind of like you for the cuts on your face -
Ned Vizzini
#35. I'm a fan of people that have quality, that do what they do and that are not into the showbiz.
Ralph Lauren
#36. A woman asking 'Am I good? Am I satisfied?' is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves, the less they talk to other women, the more they try to please their husbands, the happier the marriage is going to be.
Barbara Cartland
#37. The great majority of people in England and America are modest, decent and pure-minded and the amount of virgins in the world today is stupendous.
Barbara Cartland
#38. A flower is not a flower. It is made only of non-flower elements - sunshine, clouds, time, space, earth, minerals, gardeners, and so on. A true flower contains the whole universe. If we return any one of these non-flower elements to its source, there will be no flower.
Nhat Hanh
#41. When you get past fifty, you have to decide whether to keep your face or your figure. I kept my face.
Barbara Cartland
#42. Every man has been brought up with the idea that decent women don't pop in and out of bed; he has always been told by his mother that "nice girls don't." He finds, of course, when he gets older that this may be untrue-but only in a certain section of society.
Barbara Cartland
#43. I'll wager that in ten years it will be fashionable again to be a virgin.
Barbara Cartland
#44. After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down.
Barbara Cartland
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