Top 100 Regency Era Quotes
#1. It was quite apparent that he'd been bestowed all the charms of any handsomely clad rake. A demeanor to match, Ruby thought.
Jettie Necole
#2. You are brave and loyal and true. You have such a good heart." He held my hand close to his chest and covered it with his other hand. "It is only afraid. But I would take such good care of it, love, if you would give it to me.
Julianne Donaldson
#3. No, but on the other hand you don't enact me Cheltenham tragedies when I've barely swallowed my breakfast.
Georgette Heyer
#4. Feris was taller than the average man and his looks were sinister in the form of long dark hair and deep-set eyes. He had an untouchable, magnetic quality that consumed any beholder whose gaze fell upon him as he spoke, and when he fell silent, his penetrating stare easily defied any predators.
Jettie Necole
#5. I dislike this waistcoat."
He raised his brows. "What's wrong with it?"
"You're still wearing it.
Erica Ridley
#6. He tried to disguise how tired and ill he was, how depressing the thought of death was to him and how he spent his days and nights thinking up schemes of living beyond what the prognosis said. His hope, if not his heart, would find a way.
Noorilhuda
#7. I wonder what it was really like back then. We think it's all fun and flirting, but there was probably a lot of ugly reality."
"Like the dancing.
Mary Jane Hathaway
#8. When I started writing, I didn't have the common sense to use a pseudonym, so I write under my own name. If I did have a pen name, though, it would be something very historical - something that sounds very sort of Regency ... Sophia something.
Nicola Cornick
#9. Call it what you like, my lady, but it is still spying.
Jessie Clever
#10. I've come to seduce you."
His pupils dilated as his gaze heated.
She smiled. He hadn't been surprised at her presence, but he'd been very surprised at the reason.
He held up a palm. "By all means.
Erica Ridley
#11. In the hazy afternoon light through the windows he looked beautiful and dissolute, shirt open at the collar and streaks of golden hair falling into his eyes, like some Regency buck after a long night's dancing.
Tana French
#12. One is only as good as one is useful.
Noorilhuda
#13. The point is, people have been having babies for thousands of years. There will be frightening moments and exhausting moments, but more than anything---"
"--- there will just be love.
Erica Ridley
#14. She narrowed her gaze. "I don't trust you to keep your eyes closed."
"Smart woman," he said. "I wouldn't trust me, either, if I were you.
Christina Brooke
#15. Either way, he was always staring into a bottomless pit, or into a whirlpool that forever sucked him inexorably inward to its vortex.
Mary Balogh
#16. Devilment showed in his eyes. "Well, since it is a trial, we should practice so that we can perfect our kisses."
"You need no practice. You are clearly an expert.
Vicky Dreiling
#17. We must go to the laboratory at once. I have some cannabis.
Brooklyn Ann
#19. Te amo, Querida," he whispered suddenly, stroking her hair. "Tu eres mi luz en la oscuridad."
"This is the second time you've said that," Cassandra murmured. "What does it mean?"
"I love you." His voice was as rough as his hand on her cheek was gentle. "You are my light in the darkness.
Brooklyn Ann
#20. I only hope I may not be ruined," she was saying miserably. "I should be obliged to marry you after all, and then I'd likely murder you before the wedding breakfast was over.
Christina Brooke
#21. At first glance, the ball seemed to be an elegant success. However, re-evaluation would allow an observer to see more than a graceful party. Many well-thought plans highlighted what this really was: a marriage market.
Jettie Necole
#22. Please, I do not wish to be rescued by a gentleman. Could you find a farmer or a shopkeep - anyone not of the gentry - and then do me a great favor of forgetting you saw me?
Cindy Anstey
#23. He clutched her to him with a desperate strength that almost hurt. "I will love you for your light, if you can love me through the dark times. And that love will be like the clear night sky when the moon is full. Not like the sun....but beautiful and bright enough to find our way.
Kerrigan Byrne
#24. Austen suggests that a gentleman is made, not born - and made only through a process of painful self-reflection and discovery.
Emily Auerbach
#25. Ruby's eyes shot open when she woke, for she felt a constraint around her wrists and ankles. Feeling with her fingers, she touched cold metal. Her small movement gave the chains a slight jingle. A sinking feeling washed over her at the realization that she was chained.
Jettie Necole
#26. I sincerely pity the poor man you marry. I doubt he'll have a moment's peace.
Heather King
#27. I may be dead inside, but I'm more than alive enough for you." He gripped her chin and covered her mouth with his.
Erica Ridley
#28. A gentleman can't let a lady sleep in an armchair while he takes his ease in a bed."
"But you are not a gentleman," she pointed out. "You are the greatest scoundrel in all the land."
He tilted his head to consider that. "All right. You take the chair.
Christina Brooke
#29. He didn't choose between me and you, Julia: it was between me and ruin.
Georgette Heyer
#30. I need to go hunting now," he rasped. Before I tear off your clothes and plunge my c*** and my fangs inside you.
Brooklyn Ann
#31. Rafe pulled Cassandra into his arms. "At first, I wanted my arm back to feel whole again and to not appear weak before my enemies. Now I only want it to hold you.
Brooklyn Ann
#32. Keep your hands off me. She spoke viciously, through her teeth, and he caught a glimpse of her deVere ancestry.
She was a virago in tiny, fragile, fairy form.
Christina Brooke
#33. ... The freshly devoured peppermint she loved lofted from her breath and up to his nose with her loud bellow of Father in his ear, and Caxton was sure that he could smell that scent now out in the crisp night air. "You demon!" he screamed with all his might. ...
Jettie Necole
#35. Being a pioneering reformer is all fine and good, but it does leave one terribly in want of a
good party!
Jenny Holiday
#36. Red. Red, the colour of the Regency, scrawled over with the iconography of the border forts, growing, fluttering. These were the banners of Ravenel. Not only the banners, but men and riders, flowing over the hilltop like wine from an over-full cup, staining and darkening its slopes, and spreading.
C.S. Pacat
#37. Julia stood for his youth, and the high hopes he had cherished; and although he might no longer yearn to possess her she would remain nostalgically dear to him while life endured.
Georgette Heyer
#38. It is unforgivable that men and women who have worked the land and served us for generations should be so bewildered and fearful, because of laws made to accommodate the greed of others," Darcy said, "Laws are meant to make the lives of citizens better, not worse.
Rebecca Ann Collins
#39. Te amo, Querida," he whispered, stroking her hair. "Tu eres mi luz en la oscuridad." I love you. You are my light in the darkness.
Brooklyn Ann
#40. It could hardly be made since the pyramids, it is thought, were erected in the predynastic age under the regency of Pharaoh Cheops. This pharaoh, who was also known as Khufu, lived between 2589 and 2566 BC, or one thousand years before the Hyksos (Levites) were ever heard of.
Michael Tsarion
#41. He tasted like Edmund, smelled like Edmund, felt like second chances. He kissed her as if she were as indispensable as air. As though his every heartbeat belonged as much to her as it did to him.
Erica Ridley
#42. Ravenwood ran a hand through his wavy chestnut hair, upsetting the careful work of his valet.
Or not. Given the popularity of the "frightened owl" hairstyle today, Amelia couldn't fathom much effort being involved at all.
Erica Ridley
#43. Rafe tugged her closer before she could trip over a gravestone. "Damn it, woman. Devil take your wagon! You fail to grasp the severity of this situation.
Brooklyn Ann
#44. Ah, lady, when I gave my heart to thee, It passed into thy lifelong regency.
Gilbert Parker
#45. There was no need to analyze the feelings that the people caught in the commission of the amorous act, held for each other, for it was literally written in their hands.
Noorilhuda
#46. Most books set in England between 1800 and 1840 have a 'Regency' feel. The reason that era is so useful for romance authors stems from the wide-ranging social changes that were occurring over that time, and the parallels, or echoes, those create with our time and the lives of our readers.
Stephanie Laurens
#49. Well,' Frederick had said, 'I will see what can be arranged, Archie. But I will not have the girl frightened or compromised.'
'You sound like a grandfather who has raised fifteen daughters and is now starting on his granddaughters, Freddie,' Lord Archibald had said. 'It is most disconcerting.
Mary Balogh
#50. I really think I'd have enjoyed the life of a Regency buck.
Patrick Macnee
#51. Let me give you one piece of advice. Do not get between a woman and her cause.
Jenny Holiday
#52. Here is an unbroken space in which a woman and a man may with the full sanction of society, practically make love to each other with their eyes, their fleeting touch, and the display of their bodies. Emblem of marriage, indeed.
Laurie Viera Rigler
#53. I came up stairs into the world, for I was born in a cellar.
William Congreve
#54. He'd missed matching wits with her. "Shall we duel with our lips?"
"You may find yourself eating grass for breakfast.
Vicky Dreiling
#55. People do understand the language of the heart, you know, even if the head does not always comprehend it.
Mary Balogh
#56. Rafael possessed unfathomable strength. His speed defied the laws of nature...and his bite, good God, his bite. How could something so macabre feel so pleasurable?
Brooklyn Ann
#57. You might be the matched half to me. The white to my black.
Renee Rose
#58. Their encounter confirmed what he had been unwilling to admit. Charlotte didn't taste, smell, or feel like any other woman he had ever known. She wasn't like any other woman and never would be. And he would never be satisfied with another woman now that he'd touched her.
Sebastian
Ally Broadfield
#59. I do, love. I want you more than you could ever know. More than I could have ever dreamed. I want you enough for two men. For ten.
Sarah MacLean
#60. God had not answered her mother's prayers and she doubted He would answer hers.
Sarah E. Ladd
#61. After only a few moments in her presence, he found himself wondering what dragon he might slay for her.
Regina Scott
#62. Do I get a reward?" he asked as he brought her hand to his mouth for a kiss.
Ruby darted her eyes away from him as she blushed with embarrassment. "For my rescue?" she dared.
His eyes twinkled. "For rescuing each other." He placed his hand along her back and pulled her against his chest.
Jettie Necole
#63. Hetty shivered. Goodness, he had no business looking at her like that. Physician my eye! Physicians definitely didn't look like him; they were short, round and adorned with wigs and spectacles.
Susan Lodge
#64. There he was, her confidant - strong, solid, and unbending.
Jettie Necole
#65. Bustle about Noddy, or we shant be in time to snabble any of the lobster patties.
Georgette Heyer
#66. I'm very cute, you know. And I'm not sure you've heard, but I have five thousand pounds a year. I've taken a place in Boulder for the season. Miss Dashwood and her sister will vouch for my parentage.
Danika Stone
#67. I'm sure your feelings do you credit, John, but by Jove, you can't marry a female in a fit of philantropy!
Sheri Cobb South
#68. to want any woman so badly was unwise, let alone his enemy's daughter." An Artful Seduction
Tina Gabrielle
#69. The dream came again - three times in three nights and always at the first of the year.
Jettie Necole
#70. Please don't say you're sorry, False platitudes of sorrow, of pity, of goddamned praise of being a hero, sicken me.
Dominique Eastwick
#71. Mr Warboys, without putting himself to the trouble of deciding which of the more ferocious animals his friend resembled, stated the matter in simple, and courageously frank terms. "Y"know, old fellow," he once told Martin,"if you had a tail, damme if you wouldn't lash it!
Georgette Heyer
#72. Give her books, where other people did all the running around and courting; it was far easier to read about such matters than to experience them herself.
Sophie Dash
#73. I cannot look at you with anything other than abhorrence, much less affection! I couldn't bare your presence when we were children and, I'm afraid to say, the repulsive way at which you have grown to be has made it even worse! You have taken everything from me...
Madeline Courtney
#74. Should I rejoice in the inferiority of my fate?" - John Lockwood
Noorilhuda
#75. Chronology of any event worked best in obituaries. It had no place in the world of sentiment, where memories, ideas and assumptions co-existed side by side.
Noorilhuda
#76. Hope is the damnedest of all feckless emotions.
Noorilhuda
#77. He rolled his neck, as if to relieve the stress of his shoulders. "Your body is encased in a strong spell. It will not open up to me," he said in frustration. "Who guards you?
Jettie Necole
#78. The boy continued with a desperate note. "You may have saved my life, but it is not my life any longer, it is yours.
Jettie Necole
#79. He stole her first kiss. And then he stole her heart.
Erica Ridley
#80. We'll have a duel in the morning on the moors. Plenty of fog. It will be quite dramatic, I daresay.
Julianne Donaldson
#81. Forgiveness was such a tricky business. One could forgive with all sincerity one moment and then be overcome by feelings of anger and ill-use the next.
Claudia Harbaugh
#82. Hollywood Regency is a label some people put on me, but I consider myself a modernist in that I always try to make the work feel fresh.
Kelly Wearstler
#83. A woman's lust is addictive ," he murmured, marveling at the wetness coating his fingers as he stroked her. She trembled and her breath hitched in response. "It inspires a man to touch and to taste.
Alexandra Hawkins
#84. One of the things that interests me about the Regency period is how women began to stir under the thumbs of men, wanting more and bigger freedoms.
Julia London
#85. I've never met anyone as kind as you are, except me Mum, o' course." --Benjamin Trimmel to Lady Alexandra.
Lisa M. Prysock
#86. If you have always suspected your sister of an inclination to madness, it will be my pleasure to confirm your worst fears.
Mary Balogh
#87. The coals seem to glow with such life, but she knew it was all an illusion.The embers were nothing but the last breath of death. I am like this fire, she thought.I look alive but inside I feel dead.
Cassandra Samuels
#88. When did all the men in her life become so addlepated over a few country misses?
Sue Barr
#89. Tell me what you wish for, and if it's any part of my body, your wish will come true at the Regency Hotel in forty minutes." She'd giggled and turned her face to the sunlight. "Free, Jonathan. I wish to be free.
C.D. Reiss
#90. Xander stood at the end of the bed, hands on hips, the jacket she'd helped him sew thrown open, a gold-threaded waistcoat glimmering underneath. He was the Regency hero today, but she didn't feel like being saved.
Danika Stone
#91. Love will find a way against time itself.
Sylvia Day
#92. So off had gone John to the wars again. But he had not remained for long in the position of a humble volunteer. Colonel Clifton, commanding the 1st Regiment of Dragoons, no sooner heard that Crazy Jack was back then he enrolled him as an extra aide-de-camp.
Georgette Heyer
#93. ... You make me feel as if I am a bird soaring in the sky. When you are not with me, I am bound to the ground." He touched her soft cheek. "I want you to marry me, Ruby. Will you?
Jettie Necole
#94. How dare you make such suggestions when you have no idea what it is you're talking about. Of course you've always been this way; conceited, arrogant, rude to others around you when they don't match up to your ridiculously.." high standards...
Madeline Courtney
#95. His friend laughed. 'You missed your calling, Freddie,' he said. 'You should have been one of the aforementioned clergy. Is this what marriage does to you? One shudders at the very idea.
Mary Balogh
#96. No, I'm not smart," he whispered against her ear, "but I was wise enough to fall in love with you and clever enough to convince you to marry me. I hope I'm not so stupid that I would ever let you go.
Sara Lindsey
#97. You should know that Rafael is not the beast he would have you believe he is. He may be harsh, but he is fair. However, I highly recommend that you endeavor to be on his good side."
She raised a brow. "Does he have one?
Brooklyn Ann
#98. He kissed her. Without warning, without permission. Without even deciding to do it, but simply because he couldn't have done anything else. He needed that breath she was holding. It belonged to him, and he wanted it back.
Tessa Dare
#99. To be your companion."
"Companion?" He said the word as if he were spitting a bad taste from his mouth. "I am a killer. A monster! Can you not see that?
Jettie Necole
#100. The thought flashed into her mind that she beheld the embodiment of her ideal. It was as instantly banished;
Georgette Heyer
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