Joanna Shupe > Joanna's Quotes

“I’m a man of words, yet you rob me of them every single time.”
― Joanna Shupe, Mogul

“It is said you are the woman who holds all of London in the palm of her hand."

"Perhaps not all of London, Your Grace, but a fortunate few have indeed felt the palm of my hand.”
― Joanna Shupe, The Courtesan Duchess

“On one side of his brain, logic was standing on a chair, waving its arms to get his attention. On the other side, lust and yearning rubbed their hands together in unholy anticipation.”
― Joanna Shupe, The Lady Hellion

“Love was like a stock, Lizzie realized. You gambled on its paying off in the long run—but it could just as easily cost you everything.”
― Joanna Shupe, Magnate

“That is the one unforgivable sin in any society. Be different and be damned!”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“You should be kissed and by someone who knows how.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“That's what's wrong with you. All your beaux have respected you too much, though God knows why, or they have been too afraid of you to really do right by you. The result is that you are unendurably uppity. You should be kissed and by someone who knows how.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“If he's forgotten me, I'll make him remember me. I'll make him want me again.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“Hush," he said. "I am asking you to marry me. Would you be convinced if I knelt down?”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“My pet, the world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business" - Rhett Butler”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“God help the man who ever really loves you.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“I'm not asking you to forgive me. I'll never understand or forgive myself. And if a bullet gets me, so help me, I'll laugh at myself for being an idiot. There's one thing I do know... and that is that I love you, Scarlett. In spite of you and me and the whole silly world going to pieces around us, I love you. Because we're alike. Bad lots, both of us. Selfish and shrewd. But able to look things in the eyes as we call them by their right names.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“You're like the thief who isn't the least bit sorry he stole, but is terribly, terribly sorry he's going to jail. - Rhett Butler”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“I can't go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“But, hell, I wouldn't have grudged him your body. I know how little bodies mean - especially women's bodies. But I do grudge him your heart and your dear, hard, unscrupulous mind. He doesn't want your mind, the fool, and I don't want your body. I can buy women cheap. But I do want your mind and your heart, and I'll never have them.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“you can go to the Devil and not at your leisure. You can go now, for all I care.'
'My pet, I've been to the Devil and he's a very dull fellow. I won't go there again, not even for you.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“Any place could be a cage. And maybe, with the right person, any place could be a home.”
― Theresa Romain, Fortune Favors the Wicked

“An infinity of passion can be contained in one minute, like a crowd in a small space.”
― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“Love, she thought, must come suddenly, with great outbursts and lightnings,--a hurricane of the skies, which falls upon life, revolutionises it, roots up the will like a leaf, and sweeps the whole heart into the abyss.”
― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“The denigration of those we love always detaches us from them in some degree. Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers.”
― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“What baffled him was that there should be all this fuss about something so simple as love.”
― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“You’re healthy. The healthiest I’ve ever known you. And that’s how I want it to stay. I want you around for a long, long time. I want to spend the next fifty years with you. I’m counting on spending the next fifty years with you. So please, for the love of God, don’t do anything to mess that up for us. Not everyone gets a second chance.” “I”
― Josh Lanyon, So This is Christmas

“This isn't London, sweetheart. This is New York City and we can spot a fraud from a mile away.”
― Joanna Shupe, A Daring Arrangement