Plaidy's Quotes

#1. Ever since reading Jean Plaidy's 'Queen in Waiting,' I've felt deep admiration for Caroline of Ansbach.

Lauren Willig

#2. Nature was more merciful than men, providing for those who suffered great pain such blessedness as fainting; but men were cruel and brought their victims out of faints that the pain might start again. (On being tortured/The Tower.)

Jean Plaidy

#3. He was what men called a religious man, which in his case meant he was a superstitious man. There was never a man less Christian; there was never one who made a greater show of piety.

Jean Plaidy

#4. He had been so friendly, and he had shown clearly that he did not think me in the least stupid
or, if he did, he liked it.

Jean Plaidy

#5. Jean Plaidy was the greatest influence on me.

Ann Turner

#6. He embraced me before them all, and he cried: 'Let every man favor his own doctor. This Dr. Colet is the doctor for me ...

Jean Plaidy

#7. How stupid lovers can be! But if they were not, there would be no story.

Jean Plaidy

#8. And there he lay in his bed, a broken man, worn out by a way of life which had been thrust upon him because of the antics of a wayward pig.

Jean Plaidy

#9. It is to live that requires courage, not to die ...

Jean Plaidy

#10. They were seated at the banquet side by side, immediately good friends, their great attraction being that each of them knew there was nothing to fear from the other.

Jean Plaidy

#11. It is the people who have no say in making wars who suffer from the consequences of them.

Jean Plaidy

#12. But our lives were not as they seemed, were they, Sophia? No one's life ever is.

Jean Plaidy

#13. I found that married life gave me the necessary freedom to follow an ambition which had been with me since childhood; and so I started to write in earnest.

Jean Plaidy

#14. All greatness must first take its shape in dreams.

Jean Plaidy

#15. When I was 14 and living in London, I'd go around Hampton Court Palace with its marvelous atmosphere, through the gateway where Ann Boleyn walked, the haunted gallery down which Katherine Howard ran. It all set me going. It all started from there.

Jean Plaidy

#16. What was the good of restrained laughter; it made a mockery of the entire practice of laughing.

Jean Plaidy

#17. In Spain to share a pleasure is a good thing because in sharing what is good one gives something worth having. To share one's sorrow is to beg that one's burden shall be partly carried by another. Spaniards are too proud to ask favors." The

Jean Plaidy

#18. Oh, the shame that I suffer now . . . the shame of a vanquished King. And those were the last words of Henry Plantagenet.

Jean Plaidy

#19. People always grumbled. If things went well they wanted them to go better. Give them comfort and they wanted luxuries.

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#20. I was always amused by the prayers of the saintly. "God do this, God don't do that." I thought God probably laughed at them too, unless He was a little annoyed by their temerity.

Jean Plaidy

#21. Gentlemen, if my love for you equaled my ignorance of everything concerning you, it would indeed be unbounded.

Jean Plaidy

#22. I've always thought you've got to believe in luck to get it.

Jean Plaidy

#23. I really believe there are some people who hate to contemplate the happiness of others.

Jean Plaidy

#24. What a good thing it is to have in this world one person of whom who need not cherish the smallest fear!

Jean Plaidy

#25. Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.

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#26. People often vented their rage on those who were the victims of their neglect because they were in truth blaming themselves.

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#27. She took his hand and kissed it fervently. I can never thank you enough for all you have given me. You snatched me from the dark pit of despair, of horror, and you set me here in the sunshine.

Jean Plaidy

#28. Tea! The English could always be pacified with it!

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#29. Trust Anne to turn a disadvantage into an asset!

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#30. Is is said that those who study the ways of ambition learn patience.

Jean Plaidy

#31. It's not how many years you've lived, it's how they've left you.

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#32. When More had said that a man who cannot restrain his passions is essentially cruel, he spoke the truth.

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#33. His dearest wish was that he could have a quiet life free from his obligations.

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#34. Happiness don't ask to see who you be afore her sits down at your table. 'Er comes and sits with them as know how to welcome her and keep her the willing guest.

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#35. There's nothing makes you admire people like seeing yourself in them.

Jean Plaidy