Quotes from Sidney Sheldon

What had started as idle conversation began to take concrete shape as a plan of action.

But loving and being in love are two different things, aren't they?

To succeed, you need friends. To really succeed, you need enemies

His dreams were so big and his successes so small.

there is no absolute truth, there is only the interpretation of truth.

Men mold some cities, some cities mold men.

she could go from a blissful euphoria to a desperate misery. She had no control over her emotions.

A Woman's Place is in the House Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and in the Senate.

Peace is a simple word, but it has a lot of ramifications. Peace doesn't have any financial benefits. When there's a war, countries buy billions of dollars' worth of armaments that are made here in the United States. In peacetime, they don't need any. Because Iran can't sell its oil, oil prices are up, and the United States gets the benefit of that.

Money was to make your life easy when you were well, and to take care of your needs when you were ailing.

It takes a man to make a woman feel female, Jennifer thought, to make her feel beautiful, to make her feel wanted.

Kelly, there is magic, but you have to be the magician. You have to make the magic happen.

Everything passes. Nothing is forever. Least of all love. Cameron

How long a honeymoon are you planning?" Mrs. Stanhope inquired. "About fifty years," Charles replied.

We're brought up to expect a happy ending. But there are no happy endings. There's only death waiting for us. We find love and happiness, and it's snatched away from us without rhyme or reason. We're on a deserted space ship careening mindlessly among the stars. The world is Dachau, and we're all Jews.

On trial... the most important factor is not innocence or guilt, but the impression of innocence or guilt. There's no absolute truth. Just the interpretation of truth.

Kelly, before you walked out there, the audience thought you were just a beautiful, untouchable dream, a fantasy, out of reach. When you tripped and fell, it showed them that you're human, and they adored you for it

Paul Martin took his marriage vows seriously. For instance, he would never have dreamed of dishonouring his wife by taking her and his mistress to the same restaurant. His marriage was one part of his life, his affairs were another.

Old money's motto was, If you have it, hide it. New money's motto was, If you have it, flaunt it.

Beware of people who say they're too rich to have to work for money, Adam thought.

It was as though her emotions had been worn out. She went from hatred to anger and, finally, to a resigned acceptance.

It's indecent for anyone to be this happy, Tracy Whitney thought.

When you're trying to hide something,' Paul Martin advised, 'always do it out in the open. Then no one will believe you're doing anything wrong.

Civilization was a thin, dangerously fragile veneer, and when that veneer cracked, man became one with the beasts again, falling back into the slime of the primeval abyss he prided himself on having climbed up from.