Never Judge a Lady by Her Cover Quotes

“There is only one way to fix it,” he said. “A secret is only a secret before a second person knows it.”
― Sarah MacLean, Never Judge a Lady by Her Cover

“Life is mad all the time. Our task is to not let it make us mad in the process.”
― Sarah MacLean, Never Judge a Lady by Her Cover

“When given the opportunity, Society will happily cannibalize itself.”
― Sarah MacLean, Never Judge a Lady by Her Cover

“But it was Eve who was vilified, never the serpent. Just as it was the lady who was ruined, never the man.”
― Sarah MacLean, Never Judge a Lady by Her Cover

“Cruelty lacks pleasure when it’s directed at you, doesn’t it?”
― Sarah MacLean, Never Judge a Lady by Her Cover

“Love. The stuff of sonnets and madrigals and fairy tales and novels.
Love. The elusive emotion that made men weep and sing and ache with desire and passion.
Love. The life-altering feeling that made everything bright and warm and wonderful. The emotion all the world was desperate to discover.”
― Sarah MacLean, Never Judge a Lady by Her Cover

“It would be stupid for me to attempt to return to Society without basic reconnaissance.”
“That is a term usually reserved for military conflict.”
She raised a brow. “It is London in season. You think I am not at war?”
― Sarah MacLean, Never Judge a Lady by Her Cover

“Society hated the most beautiful among it nearly as much as it hated the least.”
― Sarah MacLean, Never Judge a Lady by Her Cover

“My whole life, you have made decisions for me."
"Your whole life," Georgiana pointed out, "totals nine years.”
― Sarah MacLean, Never Judge a Lady by Her Cover

“The thought ran through her head and disgusted her with its stupid, simpering simperingness. And then she was disgusted with the fact that she could not think of a better word than simperingness.”
― Sarah MacLean, Never Judge a Lady by Her Cover

“Something had to be done, for if there was ever a man who deserved killing - this was he.
Georgiana surveyed the room in the silence, finally deciding to take control, returning to the tabletop, taking her spot on the roulette field. "I shouldn't have to remind any of you that every one of you has a secret kept in our confidence."
Temple understood immediately what she was saying, pulling himself back up to stand on a table. "If a breath of what happened here tonight--"
Bourne rose, too. "Not that anything has happened here tonight--"
"Nothing besides obvious self defense," Georgiana said.
"And, of course, saving two perfectly innocent people from their own demise," Duncan pointed out, joining her.
Cross spoke from his place on the floor. "But if something had happened, and information left this room, every one of your secrets--"
"To a man," Georgiana said.
Duncan climbed up beside her. "Will be printed in my papers."
There was a beat as the words sank in around the room, silence fell as the membership of the Fallen Angel remembered why they came to this place, where their dues were paid in secrets.
For the tables.
The gaming began almost immediately.”
― Sarah MacLean, Never Judge a Lady by Her Cover

“After the long silence, Mara said, “You know, I never thought I could have love.” “Neither did I, though I wanted it quite desperately,” Penelope added, standing and moving to the pram in the corner, where she settled the sleeping future duke into his pristine cocoon of blankets. “I did not think it was real,” Pippa said. “I could not see it, and therefore, I did not believe it.”
― Sarah MacLean, Never Judge a Lady by Her Cover

“I wouldn’t believe you.” “Why not?” “Because any man who has exclusive access to you would not be able to go a day without touching you.”
― Sarah MacLean, Never Judge a Lady by Her Cover

“He wanted it forever, too, but, it was impossible. His past, her future, neither was conducive to forever. Those outside forces that loomed, they were barriers to forever. No, forever was for simpler people and simpler times.”
― Sarah MacLean, Never Judge a Lady by Her Cover

“Well, to be fair, he’s in a situation where intelligence does rather go out the window,” Cross said. “I have a theory that women actually siphon off our cleverness during the courting phase, and keep it for themselves. Which is why they always seem to see the endgame before we do.”
― Sarah MacLean, Never Judge a Lady by Her Cover

“The truth always did write well.”
― Sarah MacLean, Never Judge a Lady by Her Cover

“Guilt was a powerful motivator.”
― Sarah MacLean, Never Judge a Lady by Her Cover

“Even as she was the most powerful man in Britain, one who ruled the night, here, in the day, she was still just a woman, with a woman’s rights. And a woman’s insignificant power. By day, as a mother with a daughter, she needed help.”
― Sarah MacLean, Never Judge a Lady by Her Cover

“Realizing that she was being a cabbagehead, and that Cross was staring at her as though she’d grown a second head, made of cabbage, she snatched her fingers away. “Thank you,” she said, affecting her greatest tone of dismissal.”
― Sarah MacLean, Never Judge a Lady by Her Cover

“Why not take the pleasure and leave everything else?”
― Sarah MacLean, Never Judge a Lady by Her Cover

“If one tells the truth about being a scoundrel, is he a scoundrel at all?”
― Sarah MacLean, Never Judge a Lady by Her Cover

“Violence and sex were two sides of the same coin, were they not?”
― Sarah MacLean, Never Judge a Lady by Her Cover

“Breathless waltzes have only ever led girls into trouble.”
― Sarah MacLean, Never Judge a Lady by Her Cover