Quotes from Jean Plaidy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.)

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.

Trust Anne to turn a disadvantage into an asset!

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

At four years of age children accept without surprise that which is daily paraded before their eyes

For fortune delights to strike down those who are too high and to raise those who are low; and if we do not anticipate trouble, should it come, we shall face it with greater fortitude.

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

She doubted not that in time she would grow as indifferent as others to these matters; but there was a softness within her which made it difficult for her. She must conform. She must be like those who lived about her. But for the time being she would refuse to think of the cruel things which could happen to men and women, merely because they spoke too freely. She wanted to be happy; therefore she would not think of anything that might make her otherwise. She