Quotes by Barbara Cartland

About Barbara Cartland:

Dame Barbara Cartland is known for her numerous romantic novels, but she also wrote under her married name of Barbara McCorquodale. She wrote more than 700 books, as well as plays, music, verse, drama, magazine articles and operetta she reportedly sold more than 750 million copies. Other sources estimate her book sales at more than 2 billion copies. She specialised in 19th-century Victorian era pure romance. Her novels all featured portrait style artwork, particularly the cover art.
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The right diet directs sexual energy into the parts that matter.

Barbara Cartland

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

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

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

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

Barbara Cartland

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

Barbara Cartland

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

Barbara Cartland

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

Barbara Cartland

I'll keep going till my face falls off.

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

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

We didn't need sex. We had Tyrone Power.

Barbara Cartland

Author Bio

  • NameBarbara Cartland
  • DescriptionEnglish writer
  • AliasesBarbara McCorquodale; Mary Barbara Hamilton Cartland; Mary Barbara Hamilton Cartland McCorquodale
  • BornJuly 9, 1901
  • DiedMay 21, 2000
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionWoman Of Letters; Novelist; Aviator
  • Works
  • AwardsDame Commander Of The Order Of The British Empire