Dukes Prefer Blondes Quotes

“He was a man, an attractive man if one overlooked the obnoxiousness. But women had to overlook men’s personality flaws, else nobody would ever wed and/or reproduce and the human race would come to an end. Naturally”
― Loretta Chase, Dukes Prefer Blondes

“The witless destroy what they don't understand.”
― Loretta Chase, Dukes Prefer Blondes

“I reckon you must get bored more easily than other people.” He came up onto one elbow and looked at her. “Yes. You’ll have your hands full, keeping me excited.” “I don’t remember anything about that in the marriage vows,” she said. “There was obey—I noticed that came first—but I privately added a lengthy footnote to that item.” “This surprises me not at all. But there was the part about serving me.” “It, too, needed a footnote. Then love and honor and keeping you and sticking with you and nobody else. I remember all those. But I don’t recall the minister mentioning anything about keeping you excited.” “That was the serve part. It had an asterisk and some fine print.” “I did not hear any fine print.”
― Loretta Chase, Dukes Prefer Blondes

“Everybody knew gentlemen could be obtuse, especially when it came to matters of the heart. Everybody knew, as well, that gentlemen needed to believe they were in charge. Therefore, ladies had to learn ways of communicating the obvious without being obvious about it.”
― Loretta Chase, Dukes Prefer Blondes

“No good would come of trying to make something of a man with a brain like machinery.”
― Loretta Chase, Dukes Prefer Blondes

“He started to draw away but she wasn’t ready. She held on, and after a heartbeat he slid his hands to her waist and pulled her closer. His kiss grew more fiercely determined, as though he would wipe every recollection of anything remotely resembling kisses from her mind and imprint his, permanently, upon it. And upon her body, where the alien feelings simmered into excitement and happiness and a yearning for more. Strange”
― Loretta Chase, Dukes Prefer Blondes

“Do you know, Lady Bredon, I do believe in time, with the proper guidance, you might become almost . . . intelligent,” he said. She put a hand to her head. “Where are my smelling salts?”
― Loretta Chase, Dukes Prefer Blondes

“If you want respect, you must take your medicine like a brave aristocrat," he said. "Think of the French nobles who walked to the guillotine, double chins aloft.”
― Loretta Chase, Dukes Prefer Blondes

“But women had to overlook men's personality flaws, else nobody would ever wed and/or reproduce and the human race would come to an end.”
― Loretta Chase, Dukes Prefer Blondes