“To call that writing, madam, is an insult to quills and ink across the world.”

“To say that men can be bullheaded would be insulting to the bull.”

“You should be thankful that dark colors suit you. Not everyone wears black well.""Why, Lady Olivia, is that a compliment?""Not so much as a compliment to you as an insult to everyone else," she assured him."Thanks heaven for that. I don't think I would know how to conduct myself in a world in which you offered compliments.”

“When a man writes a romance, the woman dies. When a woman writes one, it ends all tidy and sweet.”

“I am beggining to realise," Alex murmured, "why people always hope for sons. It has nothing to do with producing an heir.""That was unkind," Octavia said, not sounding the least bit insulted."Females are a prodigious amount of work.”

“Leaning forward, he set out to conquer Miss Henrietta Barrett the same way he'd conquered women across Britain.Simply by being himself.”

“Happy endings are all I can do. I wouldn't know how to write anything else.”