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Barbara Cartland

Beauty or Brains

  • Farida Yasserhas quoted2 years ago
    She imagined the man she loved would be a hero like those in a Walter Scott novel.
    Or perhaps he would be strange, cynical yet unstable like a Jane Austen hero.
    He would also be a mixture of the Knights of Chivalry and the explorers.
  • Farida Yasserhas quoted2 years ago
    He should be brave in being willing to lose his life to save a damsel in distress, or a helpless child.
    She was sure that the man she loved would be all these things.
    One day she would meet him and they would live happily ever after.
  • Farida Yasserhas quoted2 years ago
    t was not the love she wanted, and which was part of her dreams.
    Living in the country and seeing very few people, especially this last year when she had been in mourning, she knew very little about men.
  • Farida Yasserhas quoted2 years ago
    It was not the love she wanted, and which was part of her dreams.
  • Farida Yasserhas quoted2 years ago
    was not the love she wanted, and which was part of her dreams.
    Living in the country and seeing very few people, especially this last year when she had been in mourning, she knew very little about men.
  • Mary Augustowiczhas quoted5 years ago
    with you at first sight – that is true, at any rate!”

    “I will – never lie – again,” Lavina vowed
  • Mary Augustowiczhas quoted5 years ago
    But – not about staying in – your house?”

    “Of course not,” the Marquis said. “I met you in London at a very respectable dinner-party given by Katherine and Rupert Wick, and I fell in
  • Mary Augustowiczhas quoted5 years ago
    You are being very silly! You know as well as I do that if we announce our engagement and arrange a big wedding every man who was staying with me for the shooting-party will recognise you
  • Mary Augustowiczhas quoted5 years ago
    I think, my precious, I must talk to your father and ask him to marry us at once.”

    “A – at – once?” Lavina stammered
  • Mary Augustowiczhas quoted5 years ago
    for us ever to lose each other.”
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