How to Marry a Marquis Quotes

“James - "Are you paying attention or just trying to make me look like an idoit?"
Elizabeth - "Oh, I'm definately paying attention. If you look like an idiot it has nothing to do with me.”
― Julia Quinn, How to Marry a Marquis

“He looks like a man.'

'How descriptive,' Susan said in a droll tone. 'Remind me never to advise you to seek work as a novelist.”
― Julia Quinn, How to Marry a Marquis

“Above all else, be true to your heart. When you marry, whether it be a marquis or an estate manager (or both!), it will be for life. You must go where your heart leads and never forget that love is the most precious gift of all. Money and social status are poor substitutes for a warm, tender embrace, and there is little in life more fulfilling than the joy of loving and knowledge that you are loved in return.”
― Julia Quinn, How to Marry a Marquis

“James started to laugh. His chin hurt where she'd smacked him twice, his foot throbbed where she'd stepped on it, and his entire body felt as if he'd swum through a rosebush, which wasn't as far off the truth as it sounded. Yet still he started to laugh.”
― Julia Quinn, How to Marry a Marquis

“For the love of God, woman, there's only one rule in that bloody book worth following.'
'And that is?' Elizabeth asked disdainfully.
'That you marry your damned marquis!”
― Julia Quinn, How to Marry a Marquis

“Oh, Elizabeth," he murmured, leaning down to press a gentle kiss on her mouth, "I love you so much. You must believe me."
"I believe you," she said softly, "because in your eyes, I see what I feel in my heart.”
― Julia Quinn, How to Marry a Marquis

“Elizabeth, you resemble nothing so much as a hen trying to hatch a book.”
― Julia Quinn, How to Marry a Marquis

“If looks could have killed, Susan would have been bleeding profusely from the forehead.”
― Julia Quinn, How to Marry a Marquis

“Do you know what I like about you, Elizabeth?"
She couldn't even possibly imagine.
"You're as kind and good a person as they come," he continued, "but unlike most kind and good people, you don't preach or cloy, or try to make everyone else kind and good ... And underneath all that kindness and goodness, you seem to possess a wicked sense of humor, no matter how hard you occasionally try to suppress it.”
― Julia Quinn, How to Marry a Marquis

“Raw toast," Lucas said grimly, shaking his head. "It goes against the very nature of man.”
― Julia Quinn, How to Marry a Marquis

“All of this presupposes that I have set my sights on a single male.'

Susan's eyes bugged out. 'You certainly cannot set your signs on a married man!'

'I meant a particular man,' Elizabeth retorted, swatting her sister on the shoulder.”
― Julia Quinn, How to Marry a Marquis

“She Looked doubtful."If you insist." "I do." "Very well." With barely a moment for either of them to prepare, she drew back and let fly.Before James had any idea what was happening, he was sprawled on the ground, and his right eye socket was throbbing. Elizabeth, rather than displaying any sort of worry or concern over his health, was jumping up and down,squealing with glee. "I did it! I really did it! Did you see it? Did you see it?" "No," he muttered, "but I felt it".”
― Julia Quinn, How to Marry a Marquis

“She was swaying slightly from side to side, and he could see her shoulders rise and fall with each shuddering breath.

He knew that sort of breath. It was the one you drew when you were trying so hard to keep your feelings inside, but you just weren't strong enough.”
― Julia Quinn, How to Marry a Marquis

“But you have told me," Elizabeth protested, "time and again, that the hallmark of civilization is routine."
Lady D shrugged and made a fussy little chirping sound. "A lady cannot take it upon herself to occasionally change her routine? All routines need periodic readjustment.”
― Julia Quinn, How to Marry a Marquis

“Am I not allowed to have my pride? Or is that an emotion reserved for the elite?”
― Julia Quinn, How to Marry a Marquis

“you seemed far too familiar with violence. It was too easy for you. The way you drew your gun ... You'd had far too much experience with it."
He leaned forward, his eyes burning into hers. "What I felt in that moment was far from familiar. It was rage, Elizabeth, pure and primitive, and quite unlike anything that's ever before coursed through my veins.”
― Julia Quinn, How to Marry a Marquis

“It was just a book. An inanimate object. The only power it held was what she chose to give it. It could only be important in her life if she made it such.
Of course, that didn't explain why she half expected it to glow in the dark every time she peered into her satchel.”
― Julia Quinn, How to Marry a Marquis

“Oh, go ahead and giggle," Lady Danbury sighed. "I've found that the only way to avoid parental frustration is to view him as a source of amusement.”
― Julia Quinn, How to Marry a Marquis

“We cannot accept this sort of money from a stranger.'
'Maybe it's not a stranger,' Susan said.
'Then that's even worse!' Elizabeth retorted. 'My God, can you imagine? Some horrid person treating us like puppets, pulling our strings, thinking he can control our destiny?”
― Julia Quinn, How to Marry a Marquis

“But you won't say no."
She hated that his confidence was not misplaced, hated that she could refuse him nothing when he held her in his arms. But she loved the crackling awareness that washed over her - a strange sense that for the first time in her life, she understood her own body.”
― Julia Quinn, How to Marry a Marquis

“Good manners forced her to say, somewhat grudgingly, "Your boots are very nice."
He grinned and regarded his footwear, which, though old, appeared very well-made. "Yes, they are, aren't they?"
"If a bit scuffed," she added.
"I shall polish them tomorrow," he promised, his somewhat superior look telling her that he refused to rise to her bait.
"I'm sorry," she said quietly. "That was uncalled for. Compliments should be freely given, without restrictions or qualifications.”
― Julia Quinn, How to Marry a Marquis

“And put me down.” James kept walking, his arm a vise under her ribs.”
― Julia Quinn, How to Marry a Marquis

“bamming”
― Julia Quinn, How to Marry a Marquis

“termagant tendencies?”
― Julia Quinn, How to Marry a Marquis

“I have duties I must carry out as your erstwhile estate manager.”
― Julia Quinn, How to Marry a Marquis

“We need to be organized. Organization renders any goal reachable.”
― Julia Quinn, How to Marry a Marquis

“You’re as kind and good a person as they come,” he continued, “but unlike most kind and good people, you don’t preach or cloy, or try to make everyone else kind and good.”
― Julia Quinn, How to Marry a Marquis

“Not really,” she said in a sad voice. Sometimes I feel so resentful. If I were a better person I’d—”
― Julia Quinn, How to Marry a Marquis

“It’s the quiet ones like you who are the most dangerous and cunning.” “Me?” Elizabeth asked in disbelief. “I’m not the least bit quiet.” “Perhaps not, but you do choose your words carefully.” “Well, yes,” she said with an unconscious tilt of her head. “I’m clumsy enough in body without tossing my mouth into the mixture.”
― Julia Quinn, How to Marry a Marquis

“Raw toast,” Lucas said grimly, shaking his head. “It goes against the very nature of man.”
― Julia Quinn, How to Marry a Marquis