27 Quotes by Jean Plaidy

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.

She doubted not that in time she would grow as indifferent as others to these matters; but there was a softness within her which made it difficult for her. She must conform. She must be like those who lived about her. But for the time being she would refuse to think of the cruel things which could happen to men and women, merely because they spoke too freely. She wanted to be happy; therefore she would not think of anything that might make her otherwise. She.

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

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

Tea! The English could always be pacified with it!

She took his hand and kissed it fervently. “I can never thank you enough for all you have given me. You snatched me from the dark pit of despair, of horror, and you set me here in the sunshine.

At four years of age children accept without surprise that which is daily paraded before their eyes.

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