Barbara Cartland famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Birthday #Women #Sunset
Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.
-- Barbara Cartland

#Witty #Sex #Men
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

#Husband #Selfish #Trying
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

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

#Bed #Pages #Heroines
Love is next to Godliness with certain safeguards.
-- Barbara Cartland

#Love Is #Next #Certain
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

#Believe #People #Evil
When you get past fifty, you have to decide whether to keep your face or your figure. I kept my face.
-- Barbara Cartland

#Past #Age #Fifty
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

#Running #Emotional #Eyelashes
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

#Book #Moon #People
The right diet directs sexual energy into the parts that matter.
-- Barbara Cartland

#Energy #Matter
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

#Beautiful #Women #Sleep
France is the only place where you can make love in the afternoon without people hammering on your door.
-- Barbara Cartland

#Love #Doors #People
As long as the plots keep arriving from outer space, I'll go on with my virgins.
-- Barbara Cartland

#Space #Long #Arriving
A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
-- Barbara Cartland

#Book #Romance #Historical
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

#Girl #Mother #Nice
I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.
-- Barbara Cartland

#Women #Telling The Truth #Found
I'll keep going till my face falls off.
-- Barbara Cartland

#Fall #Faces #Keep Going
You become what you think. You are what you eat.
-- Barbara Cartland

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

#Sex #Two #Experts
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

#Husband #Men #Knowing
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

#America #People #World
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

#Wife #Trying #Bed

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