Quotes from Bertrice Small

should be. I will never take

beautiful." Valentina flung

Religion should be a personal and private thing between a soul and God.

Vowing never to be deluded again, he ordered that a new bride be brought to him each night and on each following morning he had her executed.

Your being contains mine; now I am truly part of you. Together as one, we form an unbroken circle of love.

Life wasn't always fair, she thought, but there it is. You took what was handed you and make the best of it.

The gentlemen like it when a lady smells sweet.

There scotsmen must have arses like leather,for while he ate I could see naught beneath his kilts but a pair of rather large balls , the secretary told him . - philippa

Beauty, it would seem, was both a blessing and a curse.

I speak from the heart words I have no right to say. Words that I should have never uttered to you, yet I cannot help myself. I love you and I shall love you through eternity itself.

The Queen, in love with love, returned her royal consent. [allowing newlyweds to honeymoon in private instead of appearing at Court to Queen Elizabeth I]

Did you not take the opportunity to bathe, gentlemen? Valentina questioned them, trying to take her mind off her body, which felt unusually sensitive in this sultry climate. The silk of her gown seemed to rub against her nipples with every breath.

It is their constant carping that has really made them old. Age is but another step in the natural cycle of life. We are growing old from the moment of our birth.

When one cannot satisfy one appetite, one satisfies another

Once the Wheel of Love has been set in motion, there is no absolute rule.Your being contains mine; now I am truly part of you. Together as one, we form an unbroken circle of love.The wife is half the man, his priceless friend; Of pleasure, virtue, wealth, his constant source; A help throughout his earthly years; Through life unchanging, even beyond its end.

Akbar, though he could neither read nor write, was a highly educated man.

Has my mother not always told me that when one door closes another opens?

After a few more minutes of rain, which came in thick, silver sheets accompanied by spectacular lightning and noisy thunder, the storm passed over them, moving on into the valley below. The sun burst forth over the mountaintop, gilding the lush, wet summer greenery, touching the stone ruins with a golden light and bringing a new warmth to them. A red kite, catching a whorl in the wind, soared out over the valley to her right.

He loved her! Despite it all, he still loved her! He was willing to wait!

A woman raises her bairns, and then no matter how much she loves them, she must let them go on to live their own lives.

she was gone over the side of the vessel to be swung down in the bosun's

Seducing highborn ladies, and raping peasant girls was a lark, but when Piers had suggested murder, he had thought him simply struggling with the frustration of losing for the first time in his life.

How delicious an instrument is woman, when artfully played upon; how capable is she of producing the most exquisite harmonies, or executing the most complicated variations of love, and of giving the most Divine of erotic pleasures. —Ananga Ranga

She, only, is a king! She, only, knows how to rule!