Barbara Cartland > Quotes

“Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.”
― Barbara Cartland

“We didn't need sex. We had Tyrone Power.”
― Barbara Cartland

“I'll wager that in ten years it will be fashionable again to be a virgin.”
― Barbara Cartland

“No one understood, she thought, the horrible, insidious, snake-like fear which could run through one’s body, sapping one’s will to the point when one behaved foolishly simply because one could not think clearly.”
― Barbara Cartland, Call of the Heart

“I think women are brought into the world to be unhappy," Madame Madeleine said. "If you are pretty you walk the dangerous path with pitfalls on either side of it, and if you are plain there are no pitfalls but you weep bitter tears of frustration!”
― Barbara Cartland, The Devil in Love

“it was nonsense that people gave so many flowers when someone died and had never thought to take them a bouquet when they were alive!”
― Barbara Cartland, The Call of The Highlands

“When a man loves as i love you,that love takes everything else from him.If i cannot have you,if you send me away,I shall then be only the empty shell of what i am now.I love you,i worship you, and i cannot go on through life without you!”
― Barbara Cartland, The Cruel Count

“Because some people dressed more expensively and lived in a higher stratum of society, it did not make them less human.
They were born and they died. They sought for happiness in the same way as the humblest scullery-maid or the lowest paid stable-boy wanted to be happy in their lives.”
― Barbara Cartland, The Magnificent Marriage

“Is it possible for a ghost to have a baby?”
― Barbara Cartland, The Ghost Who Fell In Love

“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.”
― Barbara Cartland, The Ghost Who Fell In Love

“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.”
― Barbara Cartland, An Angel Runs Away

“I cannot bear clumsy women who rise from a chair as if they are activated by wires.”
― Barbara Cartland, The Magic of Love

“So a crown does mean more to a woman than love!You love me,but rather than admit it you will go on to Djilas because there you will take your place as a Princess and that is more important to you than anything else.I hope you find the plaudits of the crowd an adequate compensation for my kisses."

-Count Czako”
― Barbara Cartland, The Cruel Count

“Morse Code”
― Barbara Cartland, Love Runs in

“He knew he was being over-optimistic, for no necklace, however magnificent, however expensive, could compensate a woman for losing him.”
― Barbara Cartland, Riding to the Moon

“the”
― Barbara Cartland, The Eternal Collection Books 31 - 40: : A Historical Regency Romance Novel Anthology of 10 Books

“Wales. The revolver might be elaborately decorated, but it appeared to Arletta to”
― Barbara Cartland, The Eternal Collection Books 221 - 230

“charitable tolerance. You would find yourself an outcast whom people might pity, but whom, if they were”
― Barbara Cartland, Love is the Enemy

“Siena marble. It was only as she reached it that she realised that the Marquis was standing there with his evening cape over his shoulders, obviously waiting for his carriage.”
― Barbara Cartland, Haunted

“Larentia, despite her extensive reading, was very ignorant about love”
― Barbara Cartland, The Goddess and the Gaiety Girl

“understand.”
― Barbara Cartland, She Wanted Love

“Marseilles”
― Barbara Cartland, Love Cannot Fail

“I always knew,' she said very slowly, 'that love would be like this.'

'Like what?' he asked.

'Holy,' she answered, 'Sacred, a part of our love for God.”
― Barbara Cartland, A Ghost in Monte Carlo

“I am exceedingly hungry," he said, "but may I say it was worth waiting to see you look so lovely."

Alyna glanced up at him quickly.

"Do you mean that?" she asked, "or are you teasing me?"

"I never tease females about their looks," Lord Dorrington replied. "That is something they have a lamentable lack of humour about.”
― Barbara Cartland, The Dangerous Dandy

“do”
― Barbara Cartland, No Darkness for Love

“Kindly keep your emotions for some time when I am not present.”
― Barbara Cartland, Love in the Highlands

“You were attacking the enemy skillfully and subtly," Ileana went on, "but at the same time you could not have known that the bats would play a leading part in you offensive."
"If it had not been the bats, it would have been something else," Vladilas said. "But I knew eventually you would be mine, as I wanted you to be.”
― Barbara Cartland, Bride to a Brigand

“Are you telling me," she asked, "that you had intended to - kidnap me?"
"A very dramatic word for being escorted by a superior force.”
― Barbara Cartland, Bride to a Brigand

“I want you to rest with me," he said, "and that is a polite word for it.”
― Barbara Cartland, Wish For Love

“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!”
― Barbara Cartland, Lucifer and the Angel