“...it was hard to hide one's emotion from one's own kind.”

“Women don't have a sense of humor. They don't need one. The Almighty made them as a permanent joke on men. From which one may logically deduce tha the Almighty is a female.”

“I beg your pardon for questioning your judgement," she said. "It is nothing to me, after all, if it proves faulty. I am not the one responsible for the Marquess of Atherton's heir and sole offspring. I am not the one who will be toppled from my pedestal if the world learns I have not only permitted but encouraged my nephew to associate with the most shocking persons. I am not the one who-""I wish you were the one who had heard of the rule Silence is Golden," he said.”

“We're of one mind, Grenville and I, and the mind is hers, on account of my being a man and not having one.”

“Hell, what was one more scandal?”

“You refuse to listen. Because, like every other man, you can keep only one idea in your head at a time-usully the wrong one.”

“She was a dreamer and a schemer & one didnt dream and scheme without hope.”