The Sixth Wife Quotes

“Is is said that those who study the ways of ambition learn patience.”
― Jean Plaidy, The Sixth Wife

“She took his hand and kissed it fervently. "I can never thank you enough for all you have given me. You snatched me from the dark pit of despair, of horror, and you set me here in the sunshine.”
― Jean Plaidy, The Sixth Wife

“She read there, mingling sensuality and primness; she saw the hypocrisy, the refusal to see himself except as he wished to be. There, in his face, were the marks of those characteristics which were at the very root of his nature and which had made him the man he was, the man who had sent thousands to their death, the murderer who saw himself as a saint.”
― Jean Plaidy, The Sixth Wife