Barbara Cartland Quotes

A woman asking 'Am I good? Am I satisfied?' is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves, the less they talk to other women, the more they try to please their husbands, the happier the marriage is going to be.

Barbara Cartland

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: July 9, 1901 - May 21, 2000

Topics

GoodMarriageWomenWomanSelfish

I feel I'm entitled to my opinion, right or wrong.

Jimmie Johnson

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Looking back, I spent a lot of time sitting in pubs when I should have been perfecting my playwriting.

Jez Butterworth

TimeLooking BackLookingBackBeen

Every time you do a true story - and I've done a few - you have to look in the mirror and say, 'That's close enough. I'm comfortable with this.' You're always going to compress time; you're going to change the order of things. But I don't think you want to tell a big lie. You want to think that you're embracing the truth.

John Lee Hancock

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Despair often breeds disease.

Sophocles

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If you decide you want to work in the film industry, you just have to bite the bullet and take other jobs until the proper jobs come in.

Luke Evans

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Every time I want to impress someone about samples and hip-hop, I play 'Portrait of Tracy.' It's one of the greatest bass players ever doing a whole composition with only the two harmonics of electric bass; then a three-second loop in it became every great R&B song in five-year intervals.

Diplo

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The House Democrats don't want Gore humiliated, so they slammed the door of the Capitol in my face. They are cowards.

Christopher Monckton

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The digital business is a fantastic business to be in. The only thing you have to do is build a cost structure for a declining business, which is different from the structure for a growing business.

Antonio Perez

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African-Americans are underrepresented.

Arlen Specter

YouKnowDeadPoliticianStatesman

I almost never watch TV, except for '60 Minutes' and pro football. I love Drew Brees, the Manning brothers and the Steelers' linebackers.

Wynton Marsalis

LoveFootballNeverWatchAlmostTV

It's amazing how stress keeps you trim.

Peter Andre

StressAmazingYouHowTrimKeeps

Obviously, my name is known now, but I don't think people generally tend to recognize authors very much. People like J. K. Rowling maybe, Gillian Flynn might be recognized, but I reckon she could walk by me on the street, and I wouldn't know who she was.

Paula Hawkins

WalkPeopleMeThinkNameKnow

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