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Top 15 Cecilia Grant Quotes (2025 Update)

Cecilia Grant Quote: “Have you learned nothing from Kitty of how a married sister ought to behave? You must invite young ladies of your own choosing, and foist them upon me with adamance directly proportional to my lack of interest.”

1. “Have you learned nothing from Kitty of how a married sister ought to behave? You must invite young ladies of your own choosing, and foist them upon me with adamance directly proportional to my lack of interest.”

— Cecilia Grant

Cecilia Grant Quote: “The smallest grain of natural honesty and benevolence has more effect on men’s conduct, than the most pompous views suggested by theological theories and systems.”

2. “The smallest grain of natural honesty and benevolence has more effect on men’s conduct, than the most pompous views suggested by theological theories and systems.”

— Cecilia Grant

Cecilia Grant Quote: “A lock of her hair escaped its pin and rode out on the wind, one more insubordinate part of her reaching for him.”

3. “A lock of her hair escaped its pin and rode out on the wind, one more insubordinate part of her reaching for him.”

— Cecilia Grant

Cecilia Grant Quote: “She said no, and he didn’t assume she only needed the right sort of persuasion. He credited her with knowing her own mind. I vow it’s a pity he hasn’t any money. A lady would be lucky to be kept by such a man.”

4. “She said no, and he didn’t assume she only needed the right sort of persuasion. He credited her with knowing her own mind. I vow it’s a pity he hasn’t any money. A lady would be lucky to be kept by such a man.”

— Cecilia Grant

Cecilia Grant Quote: “In its place welled up that same dismay she’d known on her first viewing, some ten months past, of a naked man. Whose idea of good design was this? Why those awkward angles, and what could be the necessity for all that hair? If one believed, as the Bible and the Greek myths had it, that man had been created first and woman after, then one must conclude there had been some dramatic improvement in the process following that amateurish first attempt.”

5. “In its place welled up that same dismay she’d known on her first viewing, some ten months past, of a naked man. Whose idea of good design was this? Why those awkward angles, and what could be the necessity for all that hair? If one believed, as the Bible and the Greek myths had it, that man had been created first and woman after, then one must conclude there had been some dramatic improvement in the process following that amateurish first attempt.”

— Cecilia Grant

Cecilia Grant Quote: “He’d shut the door on the subject of loss, thrown all the bolts, and shoved a heavy table up against it for good measure.”

6. “He’d shut the door on the subject of loss, thrown all the bolts, and shoved a heavy table up against it for good measure.”

— Cecilia Grant

Cecilia Grant Quote: “If you expect to never make a mistake with the people you love, you’ll only disappoint yourself. Over and over.”

7. “If you expect to never make a mistake with the people you love, you’ll only disappoint yourself. Over and over.”

— Cecilia Grant

Cecilia Grant Quote: “He shook his head, the corner of his mouth ticking up. “My way this time, remember? No ordering me about. I place an embargo on the word harder.”

8. “He shook his head, the corner of his mouth ticking up. “My way this time, remember? No ordering me about. I place an embargo on the word harder.”

— Cecilia Grant

Cecilia Grant Quote: “There was little point in mourning a thing you’d never had, and so she didn’t mourn, most days.”

9. “There was little point in mourning a thing you’d never had, and so she didn’t mourn, most days.”

— Cecilia Grant

Cecilia Grant Quote: “I’d think a man who has sinful thoughts, yet conducts himself decently, is a better exemplar of virtue than a man who’s never tested by such thoughts at all.”

10. “I’d think a man who has sinful thoughts, yet conducts himself decently, is a better exemplar of virtue than a man who’s never tested by such thoughts at all.”

— Cecilia Grant

Cecilia Grant Quote: “Don’t dare fancy you’ll be the man to teach me the pleasures of tenderness.” Tenderness was a rat whose neck she wrung with her own hands before hurling it over the hedge to rot with feelings.”

11. “Don’t dare fancy you’ll be the man to teach me the pleasures of tenderness.” Tenderness was a rat whose neck she wrung with her own hands before hurling it over the hedge to rot with feelings.”

— Cecilia Grant

Cecilia Grant Quote: “The Widow Russell apparently took her at-home retirement so far as the abstain from receiving guests in the formal parlors: Theo was shown to a pink-papered upstairs room where she sat in an armchair whose chintz upholstery featured roses twining daintily on a white ground. She was head-to-toe in black, of course, and for a moment he had the very odd impression of a spider lurking in a rose bouquet.”

12. “The Widow Russell apparently took her at-home retirement so far as the abstain from receiving guests in the formal parlors: Theo was shown to a pink-papered upstairs room where she sat in an armchair whose chintz upholstery featured roses twining daintily on a white ground. She was head-to-toe in black, of course, and for a moment he had the very odd impression of a spider lurking in a rose bouquet.”

— Cecilia Grant

Cecilia Grant Quote: “It’s not unlike a marriage, the partnership. All the effort and good intentions in the world can’t make things right if you choose poorly in the first place.”

13. “It’s not unlike a marriage, the partnership. All the effort and good intentions in the world can’t make things right if you choose poorly in the first place.”

— Cecilia Grant

Cecilia Grant Quote: “She’d been lovely the first time he’d spied her, distant and disapproving in church. She was lovely each time he peeled away her clothing, and when she lay in his arms, and when her features went dim and unfocused as he lost himself. But she was never lovelier than when she spoke this way, all afire with the knowledge of wrongs to be righted and good to be done.”

14. “She’d been lovely the first time he’d spied her, distant and disapproving in church. She was lovely each time he peeled away her clothing, and when she lay in his arms, and when her features went dim and unfocused as he lost himself. But she was never lovelier than when she spoke this way, all afire with the knowledge of wrongs to be righted and good to be done.”

— Cecilia Grant

Cecilia Grant Quote: “A smile flickered over his lips, but found no purchase.”

15. “A smile flickered over his lips, but found no purchase.”

— Cecilia Grant

Cecilia Grant Quote: “What had the Romans been thinking, with their Venus? Love ought to have been a man, tall and broad and glistening as he broke the surface, not to drift about on an insipid clamshell as the painters had it, but to stride under his own power out of the waves up onto land, the ocean’s bounty made manifest for every woman in a fifty-mile radius.”

16. “What had the Romans been thinking, with their Venus? Love ought to have been a man, tall and broad and glistening as he broke the surface, not to drift about on an insipid clamshell as the painters had it, but to stride under his own power out of the waves up onto land, the ocean’s bounty made manifest for every woman in a fifty-mile radius.”

— Cecilia Grant

Cecilia Grant Quote: “Every inch the terrible uncloaked fairy, at last.”

17. “Every inch the terrible uncloaked fairy, at last.”

— Cecilia Grant

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