Barbara Cartland
Barbara Cartland
Dame Barbara Cartland, DBE, CStJ, born Mary Barbara Hamilton, was an English author of romance novels, who was one of the best-selling authors as well as one of the most prolific and commercially successful of the twentieth century. Her 723 novels were translated into 38 different languages, and she continues to be referenced in the Guinness World Records for the most novels published in a single year in 1976. As Barbara Cartland she is known for her numerous romantic novels,...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth9 July 1901
A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
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.
Every man has been brought up with the idea that decent women don't pop in and out of bed; he has always been told by his mother that "nice girls don't." He finds, of course, when he gets older that this may be untrue-but only in a certain section of society.
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.
As long as the plots keep arriving from outer space, I'll go on with my virgins.
Love is next to Godliness with certain safeguards.
Good must triumph over evil. It usually does in life and in any case it's bad for young people to believe it doesn't.
People don't roll around naked in my books. I do allow them to go to bed if they're married, but it's all very wonderful and the moon beams.
You become what you think. You are what you eat.
My heroines are always virgins. They never go to bed without a ring on their fingers; not until page 118 at least.
I'll keep going till my face falls off.
France is the only place where you can make love in the afternoon without people hammering on your door.
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.