People don't roll around naked in my books. I do allow them to go to bed if they're married, but it's all very wonderful and the moon beams.

My heroines are always virgins. They never go to bed without a ring on their fingers; not until page 118 at least.

France is the only place where you can make love in the afternoon without people hammering on your door.

After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down.

Every woman dreams of love. When she is young she prays she will find it. When she is middle aged she hopes for it and when she is old she remembers it.

Love is next to Godliness with certain safeguards.

A woman should say: 'Have I made him happy? Is he satisfied? Does he love me more than he loved me before? Is he likely to go to bed with another woman?' If he does, then it's the wife's fault because she is not trying to make him happy.