The Lady Most Likely... Quotes
"You must have misunderstood the question; you're not supposed to answer it."
"The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page."
"For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness."
"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live."
"I am confident my ankle can bear my weight now. It was only a trifling thing."
"You shouldn’t say such things, Kate. You shouldn’t know such things."
"Be damned if you are Miss Peyton’s chaperone."
"I am Miss Peyton’s chaperone. Guardian. Whatever the name of the role that assigns the safety of her virtue to another."
"Of course, I did. I was used to your being about."
"I will not risk that which I value most for a moment’s pleasure."
"I’m buying a commission in the cavalry. I am going away."
"I did not come here expecting to have to play doyen to you."
"I suspect because Lady Finchley felt it an appropriate patriotic gesture."
"I am hardly likely forget your presence with you looming over me as you are, Captain."
"I thought Miss Peyton had injured the other ankle."
"She painted my father’s prize broodmare pink for the county fair."
"I am hardly unprotected, Neill. Lady Finchley—"
"I believe you will rectify whatever sins you once committed by behaving in a most exemplary fashion toward Miss Peyton."
"I am roughly used by one of her guests, and she asks what I have done?"
"I’d just rather hire her to manage my estate than wed her to fill my bed."
"Because they know that company for an evening too often becomes companionship for life."
"I have heard of other women who use this ploy to bind a man to them, and I find I am not above such machinations."
"I am not your brother. I have never had any brotherly feelings for you."
"You are the only man I have ever loved or ever will."
"I cannot let you do that because no one, no one, will ever love you as deeply or passionately or honorably as I have and do and will love you. No one."
"If I marry again, I shall make it a prerequisite that the man can count to one hundred."
"I'm not a good girl," Georgina said, laughing a bit.
"One can love a person easily enough and still not have the faintest idea who he is."
"You could never be just a reflection of someone else, Georgie."
"I spend my time breaking horses, no matter my birth."
"I want to hear about your swimming excursion. The one where you think I joined you though I didn't."
"I love you, Georgina. I think I've loved you always."
"I've never been first in anyone's life," she said.
"I don’t give a damn if we never have children."
"I love you as much. I promise to be more cautious while training horses."
"A gentleman never hops into a lady’s bed with his boots on."