The Darcys Quotes

“You cannot always have what you want.
Sometimes you get what you need.”
― Linda Berdoll, The Darcys: New Pleasures

“Once an excuse has been deployed, brutal honesty is no longer an option.”
― Linda Berdoll, The Darcys: New Pleasures

“His uncaring mother did not alert him to the intrinsic nature of maternal love. It was keen as it was strong, and it's memory razor sharp.”
― Linda Berdoll, The Darcys: New Pleasures

“Indignation overruled introspection.”
― Linda Berdoll, The Darcys: New Pleasures

“It was said that a man does not look behind a door unless he has once stood there.”
― Linda Berdoll, The Darcys: New Pleasures

“One must meet in the middle of the village green for all to attest to one's lack of guile or conceal it absolutely.”
― Linda Berdoll, The Darcys: New Pleasures

“Expectations placed low enough are rarely disappointed.”
― Linda Berdoll, The Darcys: New Pleasures

“What alteration was ever fot the better? Change meant loss.”
― Linda Berdoll, The Darcys: New Pleasures

“He suddenly understood that power and pleasure were keenly entwined. One could succumb to such power. It corrupts the foolish and tests the resolute.”
― Linda Berdoll, The Darcys: New Pleasures

“Hence he did not confuse manners with morals.”
― Linda Berdoll, The Darcys: New Pleasures

“There is no hint too broad for a woman of little tact.”
― Linda Berdoll, The Darcys: New Pleasures

“What is that admonition about not attempting to teach a pig to sing? It wastes your time and annoys the pig.”
― Linda Berdoll, The Darcys: New Pleasures

“Pride is a curious thing--- a paradox, really. It makes great fools of some men and saves the honour of others.”
― Linda Berdoll, The Darcys: New Pleasures

“It is accepted that Father Time is, as subscribed, a Man, if not of male gender, time certainly is no kind friend to women.”
― Linda Berdoll, The Darcys: New Pleasures

“Sagacity did not magically arrive with age. As his family grew, so did his affections. The deeper he loved, the more easily he was injured. His heart had not become reinforced. It had softened--and ripened. It was a larger target and far more easily rent.”
― Linda Berdoll, The Darcys: New Pleasures

“He remained blind, however when it came to his wife's fitness. This was not because of poor eyesight, but despite it. He saw his dearest, loveliest Elizabeth as he beheld her decades before--- fetching and vigorous.”
― Linda Berdoll, The Darcys: New Pleasures