Victorian Romance Quotes

#1. Here I am, ninety years old and ready for the cooling board, using a brand new Macintosh computer, and there you sit, twenty-two and gorgeous, fresh as a new peach, yet scrawling on a yellow legal pad like an old maid in a Victorian romance.

Stephen King

#2. I'm going to take Charity to France. I can look after her there. You can go on with your life here, and I won't be here to ... to bother anyone."
He muttered two quiet words.
"What?" she asked in bewilderment, inching forward to hear him.
"I said, try it.

Lisa Kleypas

#3. You're not worried about being compromised, are you?" he asked. "Because I've already done that.

Lisa Kleypas

#4. Why do I think the polls were wrong? People were relying on the pollsters. There was "the Brexit Effect." I think there's a Trump Effect, too. I think people are lying to the pollsters about Trump. There isn't any question about it.

Rush Limbaugh

#5. The man's hands had a terrible unsettling power over her. He didn't brush or lightly graze her skin. He stroked her, caressed her, as if he wished to give her pleasure rather than take his own.

Christy Carlyle

#6. Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo-Victorian' novels, most of which attempt to recapture the romance of the era without all the sociopolitical ugliness.

N.K. Jemisin

#7. Sometimes people do misguided things for the most honorable of reasons.

Tamara Hughes

#8. I'm an idiot for trying to avoid these feelings because they have caused me pain in the past.

Kellyn Roth

#9. You took Theo's title and his home," West continued in appalled disbelief, "and now you want his wife."
"His widow," Devon muttered.
"Have you seduced her?"
"Not yet."
West clapped his hand to his forehead. "Christ. Don't you think she's suffered enough?

Lisa Kleypas

#10. The first time you went out, you became mixed up with a group of radical political terrorists."
"That could have happened to anyone!

Lisa Kleypas

#11. Jake looked at us like we should know this already. SMB? Sandwich-Making Bitch.

Molly McAdams

#12. You have a spine of steel and fire in your eyes, Rosalie. To have such a quality, one must be shaken to the foundation of one's soul and put back together. I want to know how you emerged from hell made of steel and fire.

Moriah Densley

#13. He had an overwhelming urge to take possession of her lips, silencing any mention of another man's name.

Tamara Hughes

#14. Every time she allowed her gaze to wander to the group at the piano, she found Lord Wentworth's eyes on her. In the end it was easier to study the patterns in the ornate rug on which her chair sat. She was glad when the evening ended.

Susan Leona Fisher

#15. Well, it's really no use our talking in the way we have been doing if the words we use mean something different to each of us ... and nothing.

Malcolm Bradbury

#16. The most glorious thing about God is that he is so completely, fully self-sufficient that the glory of the fullness of his being overflows in truth and grace for his creatures. He doesn't need us. And therefore in his fullness he overflows for us. Such is the grace we receive at Christmas.

John Piper

#17. For the very first time, viewers will be able to watch their favorite shows before the rest of the world.

Peter Chernin

#18. I would feel much better about this whole affair if you would slap me and get it over with. I know you want to.

Moriah Densley

#19. Father has taught me that when something is lost, whether dear or not, giving up the search is sometimes best and often enough the lost article finds its owner.

Cassandra Krivy Hirsch

#20. I've come back for you, my love, my life. Let me look at you, keep you, never let go of you.

Sandra Byrd

#21. Humans are curious creatures. What we cannot see, our logical minds will try to deny.

Nancy B. Brewer

#22. No book is written; it's always re-written

Jean Fullerton

#23. Matt is a tortured soul,' Amanda insisted. 'He's Heathcliff and you're Cathy. He's Rochester and you're Jane Eyre. He's-'
'Darcy and I'm Elizabeth. I get it. And you're wrong.

Robin Brande

#24. I am naked because I am going for a swim," he says happily. Then he laughs loudly, clutching his side. "Oh Johnny you look like an outraged Victorian chaperone. You just need a pearl necklace to clutch." He waggles his eyebrows lecherously. "I can definitely help you out with that.

Lily Morton

#25. Thinking back on the outing to the theatre, she added, 'I want a man, not a preening peacock!

Katherine Givens

#26. We men had a meeting a long time ago, and we all decided, 'It's trousers'. And that's what we've worn ever since.

Lisa Kleypas

#27. God is clever, but not dishonest.

Albert Einstein

#28. Life can stretch you to the limits.
But there's still a hope.
There is hope for the living.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#29. What do ladies wear beneath their riding trousers?"
"I would think an infamous rake would already know."
"I was never infamous. In fact, I'm fairly standard as far as rakes go."
"The ones who deny it are the worst.

Lisa Kleypas

#30. Dickens must have first heard his famous The law is an ass quote from a woman. And she was damned right, for all the good it did her.

Moriah Densley

#31. Like herbs in a pestle, life steadily ground out the essence of those who did not have access to comforts.

Sandra Byrd

#32. You are an exceedingly beautiful mystery, one that intrigues me and one that I plan to solve.

Tamara Hughes

#33. For a longer nail look, I get a gel manicure. They grow with the gel polish, and then I keep going until I want my natural, short nails back with the regular polish.

Edy Ganem

#34. It's never gone so far as me wishing I'd never done 'Quadrophenia,' but there was a time when I wouldn't talk about it because I wanted people to be interested in me for other things as well.

Phil Daniels

#35. The laws of nature are the skeleton of the universe. They support it, give it shape, tie it together. Taken as a whole, they embody a vision of our world that is both breathtaking and awe-inspiring.

James Trefil

#36. It's a sin."
"How do you know?"
"Because it feels like one," she managed to say.
He laughed quietly and pulled her hips farther toward him with a decisiveness that drew a little yelp from her.
"In that case ... I never sin by half measures.

Lisa Kleypas

#37. I once courted a Victorian lass in old Chicago. I had to leave her, it just wasn't our time.

Dennis Higgins

#38. No, not really. But ... " Okay, I couldn't help but gloat a little. "She likes me."
Samedi didn't even look at me. "Well of course, you've had that bloody uniform on all day. I was half ready to tell you how much I liked you.

Lia Habel

#39. Innovation is a bottoms-up, decentralized, and unpredictable thing, but that doesn't mean it cannot be managed.

Eric Ries

#40. I came to believe that actually [Louis] Brandeis tended to uphold laws that he liked and strike down those that he didn't, generally strike down centralizing federal agencies in the New Deal, and uphold state economic experimentation.

Jeffrey Rosen