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. 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

#5. My heroines are always virgins. They never go to bed without a ring on their fingers; not until page 118 at least.

Barbara Cartland

#6. Understand life's mysteries - as mysteries to be lived.

Robert Zemeckis

#7. France is the only place where you can make love in the afternoon without people hammering on your door.

Barbara Cartland

#8. I consider myself an expert on love, sex and health. Without health you can have very little of the other two.

Barbara Cartland

#9. Love is next to Godliness with certain safeguards.

Barbara Cartland

#10. At least to pray is left - is left Oh Jesus - in the Air - I know not which thy chamber is - I'm knocking everywhere.

Emily Dickinson

#11. If you want to see God, kill desires. Desires are in the mind. When you have a desire for something, don't act on it and it will go away. If you desire to drink this cup of tea, don't, and the desire for it will go away.

Neem Karoli Baba

#12. Beauty is wasted on the self-absorbed.

Lorii Myers

#13. Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.

Barbara Cartland

#14. Books are not seldom talismans and spells.

William Cowper

#15. 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

#16. A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.

Barbara Cartland

#17. 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

#18. The right diet directs sexual energy into the parts that matter.

Barbara Cartland

#19. Blade Runner was the godfather of all these fantastic movies that occur today. What's frustrating is that we're short of really great writing and great ideas. Blade Runner was full of them.

Ridley Scott

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.

Barbara Cartland

#23. 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

#24. My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.

Jack Layton

#25. You become what you think. You are what you eat.

Barbara Cartland

#26. 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

#27. I don't play chess with my life, ya' know.

Russell Crowe

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. I'll keep going till my face falls off.

Barbara Cartland

#31. You won't know how lucky you are to be able to spend your life with the other half of your soul until you have to spend your life without them.

Anna Todd

#32. A woman is like your shadow; follow her, she flies; fly from her, she follows.

Nicolas Chamfort

#33. As long as the plots keep arriving from outer space, I'll go on with my virgins.

Barbara Cartland

#34. I'll wager that in ten years it will be fashionable again to be a virgin.

Barbara Cartland

#35. I try to destroy taboo in fashion-which is something I learned as a kid. I come from the street, and you have to be a survivor,

Riccardo Tisci

#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. I feel extraordinarily peaceful when I'm watching the sun set.

Kiefer Sutherland

#39. We didn't need sex. We had Tyrone Power.

Barbara Cartland

#40. I'm obviously coming out of the Australian summer with amazing momentum, knowing I can pretty much hang in there with anybody and even beat some of the best players. So for me, it's definitely a good feeling, I think.

Sloane Stephens

#41. Are you hurt?"
"Absolutely," I said. "Especially in my everywhere.

Patrick Rothfuss

#42. When you get past fifty, you have to decide whether to keep your face or your figure. I kept my face.

Barbara Cartland

#43. 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