Satan Took a Bride Quotes

“A saint likes to be told what he is, but a sinner is a bit touchy.”
― Violet Winspear, Satan Took a Bride

“Don’t worship saints or sinners, for both demand your soul, and each man’s soul should be his own.”
― Violet Winspear, Satan Took a Bride

“Do Englishmen like intellectual women?’ she asked.

‘Not if they have any sense, but they have such a high measure of tolerance that it’s likely they endure such women out of sheer gallantry. It would be like kissing a Roget’s Thesaurus!”
― Violet Winspear, Satan Took a Bride

“The cleverest women hide it and create an aura of wit and charm instead. Those who can’t wait a moment to prove how much smarter than men they are--Dios, what bores! A man might as well invite a bearded professor to lunch than a female with all her mental pencils sharpened; instead of being an amusing companion she sits for an examination, gobbling food and words and waving her hands about like a merchant in a bazaar. It is probably the Spaniard in me that dislikes the type!”
― Violet Winspear, Satan Took a Bride

“How could you do such a thing to your husband?" Toni looked at Melisande with shocked eyes.
"Quite simply because he bored me. He agreed with everything I ever said, and not once in our four years together did he give me a bruise. He knelt to me when I wanted him to dominate me. He let me make a fool of him with a dozen men, but Luque was, on that point, a perfect Spaniard. He turned his back on me and so I stabbed him!”
― Violet Winspear, Satan Took a Bride