The Perfect Gentleman Quotes

“And because he was too stupid to see how she spoke her love, because he was thick and could only understand something if he were beaten over the head with it, he had not heard. He had expected three little words, not one enormous sacrifice of untold generosity.”
― Julie Cooper, The Perfect Gentleman

“My father explained it to me as soon as I was old enough to understand—to divide Pemberley would be to destroy it. George, you see, was required to spend his life in service to the place. That was his sacrifice. I was required to surrender it entirely—that was mine.”
― Julie Cooper, The Perfect Gentleman

“But she was reared by unpleasant parents, and married to an unpleasant husband. I suppose the odds of becoming unpleasant herself were dreadfully high.”
― Julie Cooper, The Perfect Gentleman

“At times like this, she felt a hundred years older than Georgiana, rather than six.”
― Julie Cooper, The Perfect Gentleman

“Miss Bennet, please do me the very great favour of pretending—at least while in my presence—that you do not believe all men to be fools and idiots.”
― Julie Cooper, The Perfect Gentleman

“Most likely, her ‘agent’ was an idiot who could not find a lit candle in a dark room.”
― Julie Cooper, The Perfect Gentleman

“was very important to be firm with Fanny’s indecisiveness, or she would fret the day away.”
― Julie Cooper, The Perfect Gentleman