Never a Duke Quotes

“you make me brave enough to grow past what holds me back.”
― Grace Burrowes, Never a Duke: a perfectly romantic Regency tale for fans of Bridgerton

“The last thing that was mine on this earth—my very body—was to be taken from my control.”
― Grace Burrowes, Never a Duke

“What manner of society could end a child’s life, because he sought merely to eat in a city that claimed to be the wealthiest on earth?”
― Grace Burrowes, Never a Duke

“Perhaps there was something fundamentally wrong with the human character, that it could ignore the suffering of children and delight in the abuse of mute beasts.”
― Grace Burrowes, Never a Duke

“When common sense approaches sedition, the nation has reached a sorry pass,”
― Grace Burrowes, Never a Duke

“I’d make the rules for debtors the same for the shopkeeper and the lord. A peer cannot be imprisoned for debt, while everybody else can be. How is that fair?”
― Grace Burrowes, Never a Duke

“I favor the notion that justice should have a rehabilitative aspect, else we are simply making the disaffected more bitter and dangerous. And for women and children, to subject them to such terrible hardship for the price of a stolen spoon? What we spend punishing them could be better spent teaching them a trade, but no, we must cast the unfortunates to the ends of the earth because our goods need markets and we need raw materials. And we call ourselves a Christian nation.”
― Grace Burrowes, Never a Duke

“I am curious as to why people who have never had to solve a problem more pressing than which cravat pin to wear are in charge of everything from the poor laws to treaties to turnpikes. By breeding and experience, such men are not our most thrifty or ingenious thinkers, and yet, we expect them to handle the nation’s exchequer and its most pressing difficulties. If Britain’s government were in the hands of widows, you can bet the children would be fed and a great deal less would have been spent on making war.”
― Grace Burrowes, Never a Duke

“if England prospers, it’s precisely because we are a nation of shopkeepers and yeomen. Those who have little become resilient and wily, or they soon have nothing. And yet, we allow those who have always had much to run our nation. This puzzles me.”
― Grace Burrowes, Never a Duke

“his politics were the usual self-serving Tory bloviations masquerading as patriotism.”
― Grace Burrowes, Never a Duke