Dame Barbara Cartland

Dame Mary Barbara Hamilton Cartland DBE CStJ (9 July 1901 – 21 May 2000) was an English writer, and one of the most successful authors of romance novels of all time, specialising in historical love themes.

Quotes

  • The right diet directs sexual energy into the parts that matter.
    • The Observer (London, Jan. 11, 1981)
  • I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.
    • The Isthmus Years, ch. 1 (1942)
  • France is the only place where you can make love in the afternoon without people hammering on your door.
    • The Guardian (London, Dec. 24, 1984)
  • The great majority of people in England and America are modest, decent and pure-minded and the amount of virgins in the world today is stupendous.
    • Interview in Wendy Leigh's Speaking Frankly (1978)

About Barbara Cartland

  • Barbara Cartland, witch and hag. Too much make-up, fascist bag.
    • Tony Slattery, Whose Line is it Anyway? Series 5, Episode 3 (1993)
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