The Duke and I (Bridgertons, #1)

by Julia Quinn

“It’d be a waste of a good mind if you were shackled to that nitwit,” Lady Danbury said, “and the good Lord knows that the ton can’t afford to waste the few good minds we’ve got.”

Violet rolled her eyes, and said to Daphne, “Any man, you’ll soon learn, has an insurmountable need to blame someone else when he is made to look a fool.”

But Hyacinth Bridgerton, who at ten should have known the least about kisses of anyone, just blinked thoughtfully, and said, “I think it’s nice. If they’re laughing now, they’ll probably be laughing forever.” She turned to her mother. “Isn’t that a good thing?”

To say that men can be bullheaded would be insulting to the bull. Lady Whistledown’s Society Papers, 2 June 1813