Lord Perfect Quotes

“That is what I like about you, Mr. Dashwood," she said. "You are so decisive. It saves me the bother of thinking for myself."

"That is what I like about you, Mrs. Dashwood," he said. "You are so sarcastic. It saves me the trouble of trying to be tactful and charming.”
― Loretta Chase, Lord Perfect

“I want you," she said.
"I told you so," he said.”
― Loretta Chase, Lord Perfect

“Bathsheba looked at Benedict. "You never told me they were matchmaking."

"He didn't notice!" said his father before Benedict could answer. "He didn't notice handsome young misses of unexceptionable family. He didn't notice beautiful heiresses. We tried bluestockings. We tried country girls. We tried everything. He didn't notice! But Bathsheba Winngate, the most notorious woman in all of England, he noticed."

"We notorious women tend to stand out," she said.”
― Loretta Chase, Lord Perfect

“I beg your pardon for questioning your judgement," she said. "It is nothing to me, after all, if it proves faulty. I am not the one responsible for the Marquess of Atherton's heir and sole offspring. I am not the one who will be toppled from my pedestal if the world learns I have not only permitted but encouraged my nephew to associate with the most shocking persons. I am not the one who-"
"I wish you were the one who had heard of the rule Silence is Golden," he said.”
― Loretta Chase, Lord Perfect

“Parents must be treated with respect, whether one wants to strangle them or not.”
― Loretta Chase, Lord Perfect

“Humor will relieve an awkward moment.”
― Loretta Chase, Lord Perfect

“Mrs. Wingare regarded him through slitted blue eyes. "Have you any idea, Rathbourne, how utterly detestable you become when you adopt that tone of patient superiority?"

"The trouble is, you are tired, hungry, anxious, and afflicted with an aching hand," he said. "The trouble is, you had confidently expected a happy outcome only to have your hopes dashed. Consequently, you are too low-spirited at present to appreciate that I am perfect and therefore cannot be detestable."

She gazed at him for a moment, up and down, then up again. Then, "Did your wife ever throw things at you?" she said.”
― Loretta Chase, Lord Perfect

“Life is not an opera. Scenes belong on the stage.”
― Loretta Chase, Lord Perfect

“Prying into others' private affairs is the preferred occupation of small minds.”
― Loretta Chase, Lord Perfect

“I could not bear to leave you coldly or hurt you in any way, even if it were the smallest hurt."
„A small hurt,” he said. "That is like saying the guillotine blade nicks a bit.”
― Loretta Chase, Lord Perfect

“I have dealt with the poor, Bathsheba. They need a great deal, but I do not believe they feel any great want for aristocratic females dressed in the latest stare of fashion telling them they are proud, vain, and licentious.”
― Loretta Chase, Lord Perfect

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― Loretta Chase, Lord Perfect