Jean Plaidy Professions : Author Born : September 1, 1906 Died : January 18, 1993 Browse All Authors Top 18 quotes by Jean Plaidy Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience. Jean Plaidy motivational happiness life It's not how many years you've lived, it's how they've left you. Jean Plaidy left years Happiness don't ask to see who you be afore her sits down at your table. 'Er comes and sits with them as know how to welcome her and keep her the willing guest. Jean Plaidy guests tables happiness Tea! The English could always be pacified with it! Jean Plaidy england tea There's nothing makes you admire people like seeing yourself in them. Jean Plaidy admiration admire people People always grumbled. If things went well they wanted them to go better. Give them comfort and they wanted luxuries. Jean Plaidy luxury giving people I've always thought you've got to believe in luck to get it. Jean Plaidy luck believe Gentlemen, if my love for you equaled my ignorance of everything concerning you, it would indeed be unbounded. Jean Plaidy my-love-for-you gentleman ignorance 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. Jean Plaidy atmosphere palaces london We spent the first night of our honeymoon in a country hotel, with Tudor architecture oak beams, and floors which sloped, of the Queen-Elizabeth-Slept-Here variety. There were old tennis-courts - the Tudor kind where Henry VIII was said to have played; and gardens filled with winter heather, jasmine and yellow chrysanthemums. [...] So that first night together was spent in the ancient bedroom with the tiny leaded paned windows, through which shafts of moonlight touched the room with a dreamlike radiance [...] Jean Plaidy queens winter country 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. Jean Plaidy childhood ambition writing 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. Jean Plaidy london cities years It is to live that requires courage, not to die. Jean Plaidy dies courage It is the people who have no say in making wars who suffer from the consequences of them. Jean Plaidy suffering war people But our lives were not as they seemed, were they, Sophia? No one's life ever is. Jean Plaidy sophia our-lives deep-thought I was always amused by the prayers of the saintly. “God do this, God don’t do that.” I thought God probably laughed at them too, unless He was a little annoyed by their temerity. Jean Plaidy annoyed prayer littles I really believe there are some people who hate to contemplate the happiness of others. Jean Plaidy hate believe people How stupid lovers can be! But if they were not, there would be no story. Jean Plaidy stupid would-be stories Similar Authors F. E. Marsh author Iimani David author Beatrice Faust author Isabella Macdonald Alden author Isabella Beeton author Alan AtKisson author All Authors
