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