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
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.
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.
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.
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.
I'll keep going till my face falls off.
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.
I consider myself an expert on love, sex and health. Without health you can have very little of the other two.
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.
Every woman dreams of love. When she is young she prays she will find it. When she is middle aged she hopes for it and when she is old she remembers it.
When you get past fifty, you have to decide whether to keep your face or your figure. I kept my face.