Don’t. Don’t play that game.” His brow pressed to hers. “When I heard you cry out . . . it was like a saber to the gut. I wanted to die.

Cleverness is like rouge - liberal application makes a woman look common and desperate. Wit is knowing how to apply it.

Squabbling over too little is just human nature. But it says a great deal about a person, what they do with abundance.

It was only a matter of time. She would love him before the week was out and it would be gloriously terrible, wonderfully hopeless.

It seemed any young woman at odds with her place in life--be she a genteel lady or a serving girl--might find a happier home within the pages of a book.

You're an intensely attractive woman. You do know that, don't you?" To her silence, he replied, "You'd believe me if you could see your

Her, ” he said. “I’ll take her.

Why did men have to ruin everything? The answer was simple, she supposed—because foolish women gave them the chance

The crow flew closer, as if to hear its praises.

Indeed, as a rule, everybody turns out to be somebody else.

Sometimes, even the best of plans will occur to you when it is too late.

Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.

And when she was good she was very very good. But when she was bad she was horrid.

My body will not be a tomb for other creatures.

Our task is nothing less than the creation of a new constitutional order for a new united Europe.

This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

They say love will find a way. I know determination will.

Vaughn's vision is older, wiser and harder than Ritchie's.