Jean Plaidy Quotes

In Spain to share a pleasure is a good thing because in sharing what is good one gives something worth having. To share one's sorrow is to beg that one's burden shall be partly carried by another. Spaniards are too proud to ask favors." The

He embraced me before them all, and he cried: 'Let every man favor his own doctor. This Dr. Colet is the doctor for me ...

Trust Anne to turn a disadvantage into an asset!

Happiness don't ask to see who you be afore her sits down at your table. 'Er comes and sits with them as know how to welcome her and keep her the willing guest.

Tea! The English could always be pacified with it!

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 [ ... ]

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.

They were seated at the banquet side by side, immediately good friends, their great attraction being that each of them knew there was nothing to fear from the other.

He was what men called a religious man, which in his case meant he was a superstitious man. There was never a man less Christian; there was never one who made a greater show of piety.

It is to live that requires courage, not to die ...

Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.

He had been so friendly, and he had shown clearly that he did not think me in the least stupid
or, if he did, he liked it.

His dearest wish was that he could have a quiet life free from his obligations.

It is the people who have no say in making wars who suffer from the consequences of them.

When More had said that a man who cannot restrain his passions is essentially cruel, he spoke the truth.

What a good thing it is to have in this world one person of whom who need not cherish the smallest fear!

There's nothing makes you admire people like seeing yourself in them.

Oh, the shame that I suffer now . . . the shame of a vanquished King. And those were the last words of Henry Plantagenet.

Her fault had been in trying to keep it as tight as a mistress might. All a wife needed was a little more subtlety, and it had taken her two years of doubts and nightmares to realize this. Let him wander away from her, let him dally with others--it would but be to compare them with his incomparable queen.

Is is said that those who study the ways of ambition learn patience.

Gentlemen, if my love for you equaled my ignorance of everything concerning you, it would indeed be unbounded.

What was the good of restrained laughter; it made a mockery of the entire practice of laughing.

People often vented their rage on those who were the victims of their neglect because they were in truth blaming themselves.

I really believe there are some people who hate to contemplate the happiness of others.

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.

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

She took his hand and kissed it fervently. I can never thank you enough for all you have given me. You snatched me from the dark pit of despair, of horror, and you set me here in the sunshine.

It's not how many years you've lived, it's how they've left you.