Barbara Cartland Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

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

A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

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.

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

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

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

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

I'll keep going till my face falls off.

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.

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

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.