A Lark's Conceit Quotes

“Twas all nonsense, Verity thought. Men always did what they wanted and then cast about for the high-minded ideal that justified it.”
― Lynn Messina, A Lark's Conceit

“Presumably, no, which was not shocking, for men were notoriously selfish, craving one thing only until it was in their grasp and then almost immediately desiring something else. They were supported in this endeavor by an ability to render their own needs noble—a sleight of hand summed up best by Richard Lovelace’s disingenuous feint in the poem “To Lucasta, Going to the Wars”: I could not love thee (Dear) so much, Lov’d I not Honour more.”
― Lynn Messina, A Lark's Conceit

“Verity assumed it was perfectly acceptable for her to don his dark green pantaloons with black linen gators”
― Lynn Messina, A Lark's Conceit

“We cannot stand idly by and allow our government to be run by a pack of incompetent ministers.”
― Lynn Messina, A Lark's Conceit

“You are a monster of selfishness and greed, bearing no loyalty to anyone but yourself, and you prance across the stage and preen as if ennobled by your inconstancy. You are the rot at the heart of France, and it must be rooted out for the sake of the country.”
― Lynn Messina, A Lark's Conceit

“It would mean Morny had no loyalty at all to Louis XVIII or the constitutional monarchy or anything else he has swon to defend.”
― Lynn Messina, A Lark's Conceit

“Every trait to which he objected was a spoil of a hard-won war against reality, and if anything, that was her conceit: that Verity Lark had earned her place in the world.”
― Lynn Messina, A Lark's Conceit

“No, my lord. It is never the same. Across space and time there is always something that makes it different when it comes to women. The it varies, the hypocrisy does not.”
― Lynn Messina, A Lark's Conceit

“No, my Llord. It is never the same. Across space and time there is always something that makes it different when it comes to women. The it varies, the hypocrisy does not.”
― Lynn Messina, A Lark's Conceit

“All she ever had was daring and pluck.
Take them away and you were left with with one more lonely child weeping under a thin cotton blanket in an orphan asylum.”
― Lynn Messina, A Lark's Conceit

“Every trait to which he objected was a spoil of a hard-won war against reality.”
― Lynn Messina, A Lark's Conceit

“We cannot expect them to exceed the limitations of their sex. They see a woman and assume her to be helpless in the face of danger regardless of how much competence she displays.”
― Lynn Messina, A Lark's Conceit

“What was the point of his saying with unsettling sobriety that he was prepared to commit to anything if he was in fact not prepared to commit to dealing with her honestly?”
― Lynn Messina, A Lark's Conceit

“Years ago, she had learned to stop listening to the nonsense people blathered.”
― Lynn Messina, A Lark's Conceit