Historical Romance Quotes
Historical Romance Quote of the day
Cleverness is like rouge - liberal application makes a woman look common and desperate. Wit is knowing how to apply it.
History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.
I want to fill every part of you, breathe the air from your lungs and leave my handprints on your soul. I want to give you more pleasure than you can bear.
Women. You'll interpret anything as love. You see a man wearing an idiotic expression, and you assume he's been struck by Cupid's arrow when in reality, he's digesting a bad turnip.
Someday, my love, you're going to understand just how much I care for you. You're my light, my warmth, my other half. I only feel alive when I'm with you. I love you." Caine
If you have always suspected your sister of an inclination to madness, it will be my pleasure to confirm your worst fears.
We have to get out of here, Bram. Before they take our bollocks and use them for pincushions.
If I am ever in the position where I wish to seduce someone I will simply assure her it’s better than rats.
I do not want to be a relative and passive being, anywhere. I want to live and love and write.
Win told me that one isn’t improved by being at the top of the mountain, one is improved by the climb.
They (mothers-in-law) never leave when they say they will. When my mother-in-law visits, the mice throw themselves at the cat, begging to be eaten.
You’re far too prickly tempered to be a mistress. You’re far better suited as a wife.
No matter where she went, God was her family. He was her hope.
I would rather be a cripple and have your love for all of a single moment than to live as I am without ever having it.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that one only comes up with clever, cutting remarks long after the other party is happily slumbering away.
Tell them I have the headache--no, the plague! I need something nice and contagious.
I’ve never heard of a man being so eager to confess to the parent of a girl he’s just ruined
And if you ever - and I do mean ever - try to leave me, I’m goin’ with you.
Do you think ladies’ eyebrows can communicate as well?” she asked.“No, they don’t have sufficient thicketry, ” he said with authority.“Thicketry?”“Yes, that is the official term.
Although most advice should be distrusted, particularly when it comes from myself . . . keep an open mind, Miss Hathaway. One should never look a rich husband in the mouth." - St. Vincent
Lord Carradice managed to look wicked, smug, and saintly, all at the same time.
There isn’t going to be a ‘next lover, ’” Grant said automatically, outraged by the idea. “I’m the only man she’s going to have.
The wavelets flung themselves up as if trying to pat my feet and I darted back, laughing, and picked up my skirts to chase them back as they receded, in a game of tag more ancient than I then knew.
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She did not want to know what charmhe had used to make her love him so deeply. She did not want to know it wasn’t real.
No m’lord. It wouldn’t be a secret army if we had seen it. My squire, who has not had the opportunity to be clearly informed about the presence of a secret army, has been ignorant of its existence.
Even the best laid plans turn to hell when exposed to reality
I’ve crossed a world of sand and tears in search of you. I love you. I’ve done nothing in my life worth more than that.
This man was no servant. She looked up at him in acute agitation and knew: this man was now her master.
For being so straight and sure, God’s path held quite the assortment of twists.
I'm more interested in lookin' forward than back. The past is done and there's no changin' it.
I'll try to turn the other cheek....But I've only got two and they're both stinging.
We can best honor our dead by livin' well. Moving' forward dusna mean y love them any less. It just means ye're still alive.
I should never have allowed you to kiss me." "Saints, Shona." Could she not see that he cared for her? 'Twas not as if he merely wanted beneath her skirts. She had stolen his heart.
He'd missed matching wits with her. "Shall we duel with our lips?" "You may find yourself eating grass for breakfast.
I wondered what he would have thought if he'd known that I'd gleaned most of my information from reading historical romance novels.
You are not The Giver of My Heart’s Desire.” I took a deep breath and smiled. “You are my heart’s desire.
If I die, " he whispered in the dark, "dinna follow me. The bairns will need ye. Stay for them. I can wait.
If it’s only a kiss you want, I can kiss you with my clothes on.” Katie O'Reilly to Captain Lord Blackthorn in "Titanic Rhasody.
Naomi knew she should pray... Instead, she put her face in her hands and wept with all the force of a bursting dam.
Maybe, now and then, we have to give up a portion of our kingdoms--the things we hold dearest--to find what it is God wants for us.
If I had known how easy it is to lose your life, I would have treasured mine better".