Jean Plaidy Quotes

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

Trust Anne to turn a disadvantage into an asset!

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

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

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

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.

Tea! The English could always be pacified with it!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

All greatness must first take its shape in dreams.