The Fortune Hunter Quotes

“But a man will only make you happy for a while, while a skill, an occupation – learning something – will always satisfy you.”
― Daisy Goodwin, The Fortune Hunter

“But you must remember that they are Viennese and nobody is good enough for the Viennese.”
― Daisy Goodwin, The Fortune Hunter

“The first thing to realize is that it is is a country that is still being imagined. Here every patch of earth has a story, all your places have nuances; if you say Cornwall to an English person, they think of smugglers, and King Arthur and fish. But there are great parts of my country about which American's know nothing beyond an idea of unimaginable vastness. Of course the Indians that live there know the spirits of these places, but that is not the point. You can't imagine how blue the sky is out West, Charlotte. So much space. It's really wild, not like your Lake District with its little stone walls. In the West the landscape is unmarked by man.”
― Daisy Goodwin, The Fortune Hunter

“You do want to see him, but at the same time you don’t. He attracts and repels you equally.”
― Daisy Goodwin, The Fortune Hunter

“Men are all very well, and a good husband can be enormously useful, but women like us need something to do.”
― Daisy Goodwin, The Fortune Hunter

“My fellow officers find that peculiar but I am rather proud of my eccentricities”
― Daisy Goodwin, The Fortune Hunter

“But much better to be peculiar than to be “fashionable”
― Daisy Goodwin, The Fortune Hunter

“Bay followed and put a hand on her arm. ‘But Miss Baird, Charlotte, am I right to feel lucky that I have met you?’ Charlotte smiled. ‘I think we both might be lucky, don’t you?”
― Daisy Goodwin, The Fortune Hunter

“But it was better to know of it than to see it in its daily monotony.”
― Daisy Goodwin, The Fortune Hunter

“one to know. I have spilt some ink on my dress and I am concealing it with paint.’ Charlotte pointed at the blemish with her finger. ‘There! Good as new.’ ‘But what on earth were you doing messing about with ink in a white ball gown? I thought girls had better things to do before a ball, like getting their hair arranged”
― Daisy Goodwin, The Fortune Hunter

“...to ride well to hounds is simply a diversion. It leaves no record. But already, my dear Charlotte, you have created something, a legacy.”
― Daisy Goodwin, The Fortune Hunter

“Sisi knew that it was hopeless to live up to the fairy-tale princess with stars in her hair of the Winterhalter portrait, an image that sold everything from chocolates to liver salts in Vienna, but she found it impossible not to try. Beauty was her gift, her weapon and her power, and she dreaded its passing.”
― Daisy Goodwin, The Fortune Hunter