Barbara Cartland quotes

Barbara Cartland was a prolific English author, renowned for her romantic novels and distinctive personal style. Her works captivated millions of readers around the world and helped shape the modern romance genre. She became one of the best-selling authors of the 20th century, leaving a lasting legacy in popular literature. Here are 13 of her quotes:

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

I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.

Barbara Cartland

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

Barbara Cartland

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

Barbara Cartland

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.

Barbara Cartland

The great majority of people in England and America are modest, decent and pure-minded and the amount of virgins in the world today is stupendous.

Barbara Cartland

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

Barbara Cartland

A woman asking 'Am I good? Am I satisfied?' is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves, the less they talk to other women, the more they try to please their husbands, the happier the marriage is going to be.

Barbara Cartland

Barbara Cartland, witch and hag. Too much make-up, fascist bag.

Barbara Cartland

I'll keep going till my face falls off.

Barbara Cartland

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. (Barbara Cartland)

A woman should say: 'Have I made him happy? Is he satisfied? Does he love me more than he loved me before? Is he likely to go to bed with another woman?' If he does, then it's the wife's fault because she is not trying to make him happy.

Barbara Cartland

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

Barbara Cartland

Barbara Cartland

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Occupation: English Writer
Born: July 9, 1901
Died: May 21, 2000
Quotes count: 13
Wikipedia: Barbara Cartland

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