Barbara Cartland Quotes

I love historical romance, absolutely love it.

Romance novels satisfy a very specific fantasy of romantic love that seems to be a powerful part of the female psyche.

Ladies, just a little more virginity, if you don't mind.

I love to have real people of history interact with my fictional characters. History gives me the plot. I research the period meticulously, and then I blend in a romantic and sensual love story to give it balance. The heavier the history, the more romantic the couple must be.

At that moment of love, a moment when passion is absolutely silent under omnipotence of ecstasy, Marius, pure seraphic Marius, would have been more capable of visiting a woman of the streets than of raising Cosette’s dress above the ankle. Once on a moonlit night, Cosette stopped to pick up something from the ground, her dress loosened and revealed the swelling of her breasts. Marius averted his eyes.

'The Lucky One' is at its heart a romance novel, elevated however by Nicholas Sparks' persuasive storytelling. Readers don't read his books because they're true, but because they ought to be true.

I'm a virgin and I brought up all my children to be the same.

When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.

Everyone knows me and my wife's story. We didn't have sex until we got married.

When you say that you write romantic fiction, there are a lot of people who have an image in their mind of the 'bodice ripper.' It's the one term that most romantic fiction writers absolutely hate because it has no bearing on what people are writing.

A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.

I am a die-hard romantic at heart and love the idea of love. But, when it comes to love, I kinda believe in the old world charm of romance - where there's mystery and intrigue.

An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.

Blushing is the color of virtue.

Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

I'm a big romantic, traditional, cheesy guy.

I'm actually totally the prude of my family.

Here's the thing about romance novels: The moment when the hero and heroine discover that they're perfect for each other is often the moment when it's them against the world.

History is my passion. So I write what I love to read. I find that if I combine history with a strong, sensual romance, it is like a one-two punch. The reader doesn't want the history without the romance, and of course the heavier the history, the more it has to be leavened with a sensual, all-consuming love story.

A romance novel should leave readers joyous. My books all have happy endings.

Romance novels have the power to bring love into the lives of readers. Through the characters, we get to fall in love every time we pick up a romance novel. What could be better than that?

I write nothing but contemporary romances.

I like a girl with old-fashioned values - and they are very hard to find, particularly in L.A.

I loved reading 'Anne of Green Gables' and 'Little Women' and Jane Austen. Those were times when people really did have only one true love in their life.