Jean Plaidy Quotes

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

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

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

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!

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

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

I was always amused by the prayers of the saintly. “God do this, God don’t do that.” I thought God probably laughed at them too, unless He was a little annoyed by their temerity.

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

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

I've always thought you've got to believe in luck to get it.

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.

People always grumbled. If things went well they wanted them to go better. Give them comfort and they wanted luxuries.

But our lives were not as they seemed, were they, Sophia? No one's life ever is.

And there he lay in his bed, a broken man, worn out by a way of life which had been thrust upon him because of the antics of a wayward pig.

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

Un país gana más con un año de paz que con diez de guerra.