"I was always amused by the prayers of……" — Jean Plaidy
"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."
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Jean Plaidy
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13 Quotes by Jean Plaidy
Jean Plaidy has 13 quotes on this site.
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It is the people who have no say in making wars who suffer from the consequences of them.
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It is to live that requires courage, not to die....
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I consider myself extremely lucky to have been born and raised in London, and to have had on my doorstep…
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I found that married life gave me the necessary freedom to follow an ambition which had been with me since…
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We spent the first night of our honeymoon in a country hotel, with Tudor architecture oak beams, and floors which…
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When I was 14 and living in London, I'd go around Hampton Court Palace with its marvelous atmosphere, through the…
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Gentlemen, if my love for you equaled my ignorance of everything concerning you, it would indeed be unbounded.
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How stupid lovers can be! But if they were not, there would be no story.
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I really believe there are some people who hate to contemplate the happiness of others.
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But our lives were not as they seemed, were they, Sophia? No one's life ever is.
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Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.
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One should not brood on the past, one must hope for the future.
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Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree…
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To be amused by what you read - that is the great spring of happy quotations.
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To inquisitive minds like yours and mine the reflection that the quantity of human knowledge bears no proportion to the…
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I have always done my sketches, as people would say, for the fun of it... I have worked to amuse…
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Philosophers, if they have much imagination, are apt to let it loose as well as other people, and in such…
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The reader has certain rights. He bought your story. Think of this as an implicit contract. He's entitled to be…
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