[PHP] Problem displaying a mysql database field

[Don]

Hi,
 
I have a varchar field in a MySQL database that contains a line of text like
so:
 
"This is a line if text"
 
The double quotes are included in the database field.
 
I cannot seem to display it on my HTML page, it always shows as blank.  I
have tried using both the stripslashes() and the html_entity_decode() but it
still shows as blank.
 
How can I display this please???
 
Tks,
Don