27 Quotes by Jean Plaidy

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

I consider myself extremely lucky to have been born and raised in London, and to have had on my doorstep this most fascinating of cities with so many relics of 2000 years of history still to be found in its streets. One of my greatest pleasures was, and still is, exploring London.

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.

When I was 14 and living in London, I’d go around Hampton Court Palace with its marvelous atmosphere, through the gateway where Ann Boleyn walked, the haunted gallery down which Katherine Howard ran. It all set me going. It all started from there.

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

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

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

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