Slightly Dangerous Quotes
"I suppose I ought not to have spoken with such frankness. But you did ask."
"I would not want to live, I believe, if my life were not filled with love of almost everything and everyone that is involved in it with me."
"It is an attitude to life directly opposed, perhaps, to that attitude which sees life only as a series of duties to be performed or burdens to be borne."
"Women love their husbands, their children, their lapdogs, and the newest gewgaw they have purchased."
"She had been given the distinct impression either that there was no person within but only the hard, arrogant shell of an aristocrat or that the person within was kept well guarded and out of sight to the casual observer."
"Of course, she had never been one to fade into any background—that had been half the trouble during her marriage. She was just too sociable by nature."
"I did my duty by my brothers and sisters and saw them all well and contentedly married. I would, I suppose, die for any one of them if such a noble and ostentatious sacrifice were ever called for. Is that love? I leave it to you to decide."
"She had conceived the grand idea of winning the wager right there and then, almost before it had been made. Just to prove to herself that she could do it."
"He had the strange feeling of having stepped—unwillingly—into an alien world."
"It was not an easy hour. I can understand why the Duke of Bewcastle has such a reputation for coldness. He did not once smile."
"Fortunately, Miss Magnus arrived at the church only a minute or two late, and Wulfric was able to concentrate his attention upon the nuptial service."
"He could identify with Mowbury’s rather sheepish pride as he gave his sister away to her new husband."
"It was two and a half years since Morgan’s wedding and more than three since Freyja’s."
"He could feel Christine Derrick several pews behind his own, almost as if she held a long feather and was brushing it up and down his spine."
"Unfortunately he delayed too long after the nuptials were over."
"Her disappearance was a vast relief, of course, but how could he now avoid going to the breakfast."
"He would, he decided, sit at his appointed place for the breakfast, pay his compliments to the newly married couple afterward, express his thanks to Lady Mowbury, and slip away at the earliest opportunity."
"He wondered grimly what he was going to do about it."
"And infatuated be damned. He was near to being blinded by his attraction to her. He was in love, damn it all."
"But how did one deal with one’s irritation over a woman who stubbornly refused to leave either one’s thoughts or one’s blood—even when one had believed one had purged her memory and influence long ago?"
"And a woman, moreover, who smiled far too brightly and talked with far too much animation, even to people who sat across the table from her?"
"It was not quite proper for her to be there unescorted."
"I have never felt any burning desire to enforce gentility or simple civility with my fists."
"Women of all walks of life were persons, despite what the church and the law might have to say to the contrary."
"It seems something of a contradiction in terms."
"A man who defends the honor of a lady... is a coward, then?"
"Beauty was no excuse for impropriety. Indeed, beauty called for more than usual discretion."
"The woman could have been seen with the naked eye from a distance of five miles."