Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.
BARBARA CARTLANDAmong men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.
BARBARA CARTLANDAfter 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 CARTLANDYou become what you think. You are what you eat.
BARBARA CARTLANDGood 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 CARTLANDLove is next to Godliness with certain safeguards.
BARBARA CARTLANDEvery 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 CARTLANDA 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 CARTLANDThe right diet directs sexual energy into the parts that matter.
BARBARA CARTLANDFrance is the only place where you can make love in the afternoon without people hammering on your door.
BARBARA CARTLANDI always wear boot polish on my eyelashes, because I am a very emotional person and it doesn’t run when I cry.
BARBARA CARTLANDThe 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 CARTLANDI’ll keep going till my face falls off.
BARBARA CARTLANDA 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 CARTLANDWhen you get past fifty, you have to decide whether to keep your face or your figure. I kept my face.
BARBARA CARTLANDA historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
BARBARA CARTLANDAs long as the plots keep arriving from outer space, I’ll go on with my virgins.
BARBARA CARTLAND