A Duke in Disguise Quotes

“Plum, if you think I object in the least to your perverse ruminations, you have badly misjudged me. Now,” he said, rising to his feet and brushing invisible dirt from his trousers, “I’m off to draw you some well-fucked women.”
― Cat Sebastian, A Duke in Disguise

“Do you think I could write an advice column?” Ash strove to find a diplomatic way to say No, definitely not. “Well, perhaps of the more bracing sort. Some people do like being flogged. Specialized interest, you know.”
― Cat Sebastian, A Duke in Disguise

“Ash understood that he and Verity could never be together, and he accepted as the logical and reasonable conclusion that she would seek the company of other people. Indeed, he wished her well, in a theoretical sort of way.”
― Cat Sebastian, A Duke in Disguise

“You ought to consider what conditions you’re subjecting your hairpins to if they’d rather plummet to their death than work for you. Here,” he said, lifting a loose tendril of hair. “You expect your pins to do the work of subjugating the masses. It’s oppression. Your hair clearly wants to be free.”
― Cat Sebastian, A Duke in Disguise

“Other people might like love poems or posies; Verity’s heart could be won only by outright sedition, and Ash had known it.”
― Cat Sebastian, A Duke in Disguise

“So do you want to go back to London? We could hire a house if you don’t fancy staying where there’s been a mur—totally accidental death.” “What kind of house?” Verity asked. “Oh, I don’t know. Someplace with gold leaf all over the water closets and enormous Corinthian columns in the foyer, so everyone will know we have no class.”
― Cat Sebastian, A Duke in Disguise

“You’d better show me how you pleasure yourself,” he said, trying for the tone one uses when buffing one’s fingernails on one’s lapels and instead landing on something like a dying man’s prayer.”
― Cat Sebastian, A Duke in Disguise

“One who didn’t roll his sleeves up in such a wanton manner, for example. How she was meant to get anything done in such close proximity to forearms, she did not know.”
― Cat Sebastian, A Duke in Disguise

“Well-worn buckskin breeches, she decided, made it very difficult to maintain a businesslike sense of decorum.”
― Cat Sebastian, A Duke in Disguise