Cartland Quotes & Sayings

I consider myself an expert on love, sex and health. Without health you can have very little of the other two. — Barbara Cartland

Love is next to Godliness with certain safeguards. — Barbara Cartland

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. — Barbara Cartland

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. — Barbara Cartland

Probably every book I read influenced me in some small way. Authors like Jan Westcott, Kathleen Winsor, Catherine Cookson, Georgette Heyer, and even Barbara Cartland taught me to write character-driven stories. — Virginia Henley

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

I'll wager that in ten years it will be fashionable again to be a virgin. — Barbara Cartland

My heroines are always virgins. They never go to bed without a ring on their fingers; not until page 118 at least. — Barbara Cartland

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

This decline of literacy is accompanied by a rise in philistinism in America: a preference for the skillfully marketed and packaged product for the consumption of the mass man - the Top Ten on TV, NFL telecasts with the quite well-done Miller Lite and Mean Joe Green commercials - plus a few big commercial novels, whether the Harold Robbins novel in which sex figures second only to money, the Barbara Cartland novel in which sex becomes something called romance, or the Judy Blume novel in which teenagers are introduced to sex like Tarzan and Jane. — Walker Percy

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

When you get past fifty, you have to decide whether to keep your face or your figure. I kept my face. — Barbara Cartland

I think of the postmodern attitude as that of a man who loves a very cultivated woman and knows that he cannot say to her "I love you madly", because he knows that she knows (and that she knows he knows) that these words have already been written by Barbara Cartland. Still there is a solution. He can say "As Barbara Cartland would put it, I love you madly". At this point, having avoided false innocence, having said clearly it is no longer possible to talk innocently, he will nevertheless say what he wanted to say to the woman: that he loves her in an age of lost innocence. — Umberto Eco

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. — Barbara Cartland

I can still remember my mum (a voracious, if not discriminating, reader - I have seen everything from the sublime to the ridiculous by her bed, from Ian Rankin and Elmore Leonard to Barbara Cartland and James Patterson) taking me to get my library card when I was four and not yet at school. — John Niven

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

I never met Barbara Cartland. But now that I'm working on her life, I wish I had. I think there was a lot of pathos in it and I'm intrigued by her. — Mel Smith

We didn't need sex. We had Tyrone Power. — Barbara Cartland

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

The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its destruction leads to silence, must be revisited: but with irony, not innocently. I think of the postmodern attitude as that of a man who loves a very cultivated woman and knows he cannot say to her, I love you madly, because he knows that she knows (and that she knows that he knows) that these words have already been written by Barbara Cartland. Still, there is a solution. He can say, As Barbara Cartland would put it, I love you madly. — Umberto Eco

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

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. — Barbara Cartland

The reason why Englishmen are the best husbands in the world is because they want to be faithful. A Frenchman or an Italian will wake up in the morning and wonder what girl he will meet. An Englishman wakes up and wonders what the cricket score is. — Barbara Cartland

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

You become what you think. You are what you eat. — Barbara Cartland

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

I always wear boot polish on my eyelashes, because I am a very emotional person and it doesn't run when I cry. — Barbara Cartland

I'll keep going till my face falls off. — 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