"We spent the first night of our honeymoon……" — Jean Plaidy
"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 [...]"
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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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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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I was always amused by the prayers of the saintly. “God do this, God don’t do that.” I thought God…
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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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