Jean Plaidy famous quotes

03-28-2025

How stupid lovers can be! But if they were not, there would be no story.
-- Jean Plaidy

#Stupid #Would Be #Stories
When I was 14 and living in London, I'd go around Hampton Court Palace with its marvelous atmosphere, through the gateway where Ann Boleyn walked, the haunted gallery down which Katherine Howard ran. It all set me going. It all started from there.
-- Jean Plaidy

#Atmosphere #London #Palaces
We spent the first night of our honeymoon in a country hotel, with Tudor architecture oak beams, and floors which sloped, of the Queen-Elizabeth-Slept-Here variety. There were old tennis-courts - the Tudor kind where Henry VIII was said to have played; and gardens filled with winter heather, jasmine and yellow chrysanthemums. [...] So that first night together was spent in the ancient bedroom with the tiny leaded paned windows, through which shafts of moonlight touched the room with a dreamlike radiance [...]
-- Jean Plaidy

#Country #Queens #Winter
I found that married life gave me the necessary freedom to follow an ambition which had been with me since childhood; and so I started to write in earnest.
-- Jean Plaidy

#Writing #Ambition #Childhood
I consider myself extremely lucky to have been born and raised in London, and to have had on my doorstep this most fascinating of cities with so many relics of 2000 years of history still to be found in its streets. One of my greatest pleasures was, and still is, exploring London.
-- Jean Plaidy

#Years #Cities #Lucky
It is to live that requires courage, not to die....
-- Jean Plaidy

#Courage
It is the people who have no say in making wars who suffer from the consequences of them.
-- Jean Plaidy

#War #People #Suffering
Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.
-- Jean Plaidy

#Life #Happiness #Break Up
But our lives were not as they seemed, were they, Sophia? No one's life ever is.
-- Jean Plaidy

#Deep Thought
I was always amused by the prayers of the saintly. â€œGod do this, God donâ€™t do that.â€ I thought God probably laughed at them too, unless He was a little annoyed by their temerity.
-- Jean Plaidy

#Prayer #Annoyed #Littles
I really believe there are some people who hate to contemplate the happiness of others.
-- Jean Plaidy

#Hate #Believe #People
Gentlemen, if my love for you equaled my ignorance of everything concerning you, it would indeed be unbounded.
-- Jean Plaidy

#Ignorance #Gentleman #My Love For You

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