Jean Plaidy > Quotes

“How stupid lovers can be! But if they were not, there would be no story.”
― Jean Plaidy, The Courts of Love

“I really believe there are some people who hate to contemplate the happiness of others.”
― Jean Plaidy, Victoria Victorious: The Story of Queen Victoria

“Is is said that those who study the ways of ambition learn patience.”
― Jean Plaidy, The Sixth Wife

“I was always amused by the prayers of the saintly. “God do this, God don’t do that.” I thought God probably laughed at them too, unless He was a little annoyed by their temerity.”
― Jean Plaidy, The Courts of Love

“But our lives were not as they seemed, were they, Sophia? No one's life ever is.”
― Jean Plaidy, The Captive of Kensington Palace

“People always grumbled. If things went well they wanted them to go better. Give them comfort and they wanted luxuries.”
― Jean Plaidy, To Hold the Crown

“Oh, the shame that I suffer now . . . the shame of a vanquished King.” And those were the last words of Henry Plantagenet.”
― Jean Plaidy, The Courts of Love

“What a good thing it is to have in this world one person of whom who need not cherish the smallest fear!”
― Jean Plaidy, Murder Most Royal

“He embraced me before them all, and he cried: 'Let every man favor his own doctor. This Dr. Colet is the doctor for me....”
― Jean Plaidy, The King's Confidante

“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.)”
― Jean Plaidy, Murder Most Royal

“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.”
― Jean Plaidy, The Courts of Love

“Gentlemen, if my love for you equaled my ignorance of everything concerning you, it would indeed be unbounded.”
― Jean Plaidy, The Captive of Kensington Palace

“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.”
― Jean Plaidy, The Sixth Wife

“When More had said that a man who cannot restrain his passions is essentially cruel, he spoke the truth.”
― Jean Plaidy, Murder Most Royal

“People often vented their rage on those who were the victims of their neglect because they were in truth blaming themselves.”
― Jean Plaidy, The Rose Without a Thorn

“...his dearest wish was that he could have a quiet life free from his obligations.”
― Jean Plaidy, To Hold the Crown

“Trust Anne to turn a disadvantage into an asset!”
― Jean Plaidy, Murder Most Royal

“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.”
― Jean Plaidy, The Rose Without a Thorn

“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.”
― Jean Plaidy, Murder Most Royal

“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.”
― Jean Plaidy, To Hold the Crown

“To love was the greatest adventure life had to offer; but to love was to suffer.”
― Jean Plaidy, Mary, Queen of France

“Un país gana más con un año de paz que con diez de guerra.”
― Jean Plaidy, Queen of This Realm

“At four years of age children accept without surprise that which is daily paraded before their eyes”
― Jean Plaidy, The Borgias: Two Novels in One Volume

“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.”
― Jean Plaidy, The King's Confidante

“Her fault had been in trying to keep it as tight as a mistress might. All a wife needed was a little more subtlety, and it had taken her two years of doubts and nightmares to realize this. Let him wander away from her, let him dally with others--it would but be to compare them with his incomparable queen.”
― Jean Plaidy, Murder Most Royal

“What was the good of restrained laughter; it made a mockery of the entire practice of laughing.”
― Jean Plaidy, Victoria Victorious: The Story of Queen Victoria

“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”
― Jean Plaidy, The Borgias: Two Novels in One Volume

“So the puppy (the future George III) won't be bewolfenbütteled, he says. I'll
teach him whether to defy me. I say he shall be bewolfenbütteled, and like it!" (George II on a proposal to marry his grandson to a princess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Jean Plaidy.)”
― Jean Plaidy, The Prince and the Quakeress

“She read there, mingling sensuality and primness; she saw the hypocrisy, the refusal to see himself except as he wished to be. There, in his face, were the marks of those characteristics which were at the very root of his nature and which had made him the man he was, the man who had sent thousands to their death, the murderer who saw himself as a saint.”
― Jean Plaidy, The Sixth Wife

“One does not always realize at the time what effect historical events have upon our lives.”
― Jean Plaidy, The Lady in the Tower