Violet Bridgerton Quotes

#1. Last time I was in London, I visited Number 5, Bruton Street, which is the address I gave to Violet Bridgerton, the matriarch of the Bridgerton clan in my novels. It was a bit disconcerting to learn that it's actually a pub.

Julia Quinn

#2. Success is the accomplishment of any number of possible aims, dreams, aspirations or goals. It's very personal and unique to you. Your greatest desire could be someone else's idea of hell; you might want to be an award-winning chef while your best friend hates cooking.

Nigel Cumberland

#3. The dreams of eternity are the states of mind. When we wake up from the dreams there's only enlightenment. There could never be anything else.

Frederick Lenz

#4. As for a picture, if it isn't worth a thousand words, the hell with it.

Ad Reinhardt

#5. Mother, I spoke to the duke. He understands that this is not a formal meal. And he specifically told me that he was looking forward to a change of pace. He has no family himself, so he has never experienced anything like a Bridgerton family dinner." "God help us." Violet's face went utterly pale.

Julia Quinn

#6. This stood for the Evolution of Sense, his greatest course (with an enrollment of twelve, none even remotely apostolic) which had opened and would close with the phrase destined to be overquoted one day: The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense.

Vladimir Nabokov

#7. I blinked deliberately, expecting my eyelids to act like lumberjacks. But the trees would not fall.

Yann Martel

#8. If there's one thing I have learned it's that if you carry on as though nothing strange is happening, it usually stops being strange

Sarah-Kate Lynch

#9. It's in them anyway.

J.D. Robb

#10. I don't believe in using too much graphic violence, although I've done it. It's better to be suggestive and to allow the viewer to fill in the blanks in their minds.

Tobe Hooper

#11. I love entertaining.

Katharine McPhee

#12. Believe me, I am not even that brave enough to miss that many practices.

Allen Iverson

#13. You are not going to waltz in here and distract me with a clever phrase and a beguiling smile."
"You think my smile is beguiling?

Julia Quinn

#14. I swapped my heart for a bargaining chip a long time ago. And here I am turning it over and over again in my hand, not sure what to trade it in for.

Shirley Marr

#15. I write about art out of gratitude to painters for the joy and spiritual uplift they have given me. Painters interpret for us the visual glories of God and, in this way, bring us closer to Him.

Susan Vreeland