Quotes from Barbara Cartland

We should confess our sins to God, Torilla, but never, if it would hurt them, to other people. . . . If anyone must bear the consequences of a wrong action, it should be the person who had done it.

I think you must have forgotten, Anita," the Duke said, "that I told you never to come to a conservatory alone with a man unless you wanted him to make love to you." "I-I never - thought - " "That it applied to me?" the Duke finished. "Well, it does!

Then there was the fragrance of honeysuckle and the haunting mystery and inescapable wonder of love, which was as free as the wind, as deep as the ocean and as high as the sky.

The truth is, Papa," she said, "they are not as quick-brained as you or I and therefore all the important things they ought to have said in the first place come to them later when they are in bed or in their baths.

He knew he was being over-optimistic, for no necklace, however magnificent, however expensive, could compensate a woman for losing him.

charitable tolerance. You would find yourself an outcast whom people might pity, but whom, if they were

I'll keep going till my face falls off.

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

You are far too lovely, my dear, for there to be any need for you to be a 'bluestocking'. I have no wish to be that. At the same time Papa always said that a pretty face is a good introduction, but a man wants something more if he to enjoy the company of one woman for the rest of his life.

I cannot bear clumsy women who rise from a chair as if they are activated by wires.

The people on board the ship would believe that they had left Cherbourg yesterday, that where they were at the moment in the middle of the ocean was today and New York was several days ahead." "I see what you mean," the Duke said slowly. "For you and me high up in the sky, it would all be happening at the same moment.

Love is next to Godliness with certain safeguards.

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.

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

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

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

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.

I would love to employ a man, but how can I possibly give a man dictation from the bath?

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.

I always wear boot polish on my eyelashes, because I am a very emotional person and it doesn't run when I cry.

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

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

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