Top 300 Julia Quinn Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Don’t settle. Know what you want and reach for it. And if you don’t know what you want, be patient. The answers will come to you in time, and you may find that your heart s desire has been right under your nose all the while.”

— Julia Quinn

2. “You have to live each hour as if it’s your last and each day as if you were immortal. – Kate Sheffield.”

— Julia Quinn

3. “In every life there is a turning point. A moment so tremendous, so sharp and clear that one feels as if one’s been hit in the chest, all the breath knocked out, and one knows, absolutely knows without the merest hint of a shadow of a doubt that one’s life will never be the same.”

— Julia Quinn

4. “I love you with everything I am, everything I’ve been, and everything I hope to be. I love you with my past, and I love you for my future. I love you for the children we’ll have and for the years we’ll have together. I love you for every one of my smiles and even more, for every one of your smiles.”

— Julia Quinn

5. “A lot could happen in a week. Just look at the last one.”

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6. “I simply refuse to deal with idiots... It has cut my social obligations in half.”

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7. “Men are sheep. Where one goes, the rest will soon follow. -Lady Whistledown.”

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8. “My mother is convinced that yellow is a happy color and that a happy girl would get a husband. -Penelope Featherington.”

— Julia Quinn

9. “Be strong. Be diligent. Be conscientious. There is never anything to be gained by taking the easy road.”

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10. “Society is capricious and rewards the bad as often as the good. But it never rewards the quiet.”

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11. “It has oft been said that physicians make the worst patients, but it is the opinion of This Author that any man makes a terrible patient. One might say it takes patience to be a patient, and heaven knows, the males of our species lack an abundance of patience.”

— Julia Quinn

12. “She’s my little sister. Mine to torture and mine to protect.”

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13. “It’s far easier to shut yourself off from people than to love them. If you keep your heart surrounded by strong walls, no one can get close enough to you to break it.”

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14. “Oh, bloody hell,” Anthony swore... “She’s got the Mallet of Death.”

— Julia Quinn

15. “Deep inside, she knew who she was, and that person was smart and kind and often even funny, but somehow her personality always got lost somewhere between her heart and her mouth, and she found herself saying the wrong thing or, more often, nothing at all.”

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16. “Everyone has secrets. Especially me.”

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17. “I can imagine no greater bliss than to lie about, reading novels all day.”

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18. “It is of no concern. I don’t mind that I am not universally adored. If I wanted everyone to like me, I’d have to be kind and charming and bland and boring all the time, and what would be the fun in that?”

— Julia Quinn

19. “Tell me something wicked.”

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20. “Isn’t it nice to discover that we’re not exactly what we thought we were?”

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21. “You are the bane of my existence and the object of all my desires.”

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22. “She hated that she was still so desperate for a glimpse of him, but it had been this way for years.”

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23. “His life as he knew it was over.”

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

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25. “Men. The day they learned to admit to a mistake was the day they became women.”

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26. “The Smythe-Smith musicale. Thankfully, it came around just once per year, because Hyacinth was quite certain it would take a full twelve months for her ears to recover.”

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27. “For me, the dialogue is the easiest part of writing. It just always seems so obvious what a character will say. Maybe its because I talk too much!”

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28. “Is a broken king really better than a mad one?”

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29. “And I hope you will not think me foolish when I also extend my thanks. Thank you, Michael, for letting my son love her first. – from Janet Stirling, dowager Countess of Kilmartin, to Michael Stirling, Earl of Kilmartin.”

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30. “You are a Bridgerton. I don’t care who you marry or what your name becomes when you stand up before a priest and say your vows. You will always be a Bridgerton, and we behave with honor and honesty, not because it is expected of us, but because that is what we are.” Eloise.”

— Julia Quinn

31. “I can’t imagine a romance novel published today where the hero rapes the heroine and she falls in love with him.”

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32. “She was petite, small in that way that made a man want to slay dragons.”

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33. “Love’s about finding the one person who makes your heart complete. Who makes you a better person than you ever dreamed you could be. Its about looking in the eyes of your wife and knowing all the way to your bones that she’s simply the best person you’ve ever known.”

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34. “There were rules among friends, commandments, really, and the most important one was Thou Shalt Not Lust After Thy Friend’s Sister.”

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35. “Laugh. Laugh out loud, and laugh often. And when circumstances call for silence, turn your laugh into a smile. Don.”

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36. “Maybe this, then, was the definition of love. When you wanted someone, needed her, adored her still, even when you were utterly furious and quite ready to tie her to the bed just to keep her from going out and making more trouble. This.”

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37. “It was heaven. Forget angels, forget St. Peter and glittering harpsichords. Heaven was a dance in the arms of one’s true love.”

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38. “Suddenly it was too hard to be in his presence, too painful to know that he would belong to someone else.”

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39. “The only thing worse than a man who makes a woman cry is a man who makes a woman cry and then doesn’t feel guilty about it.”

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40. “He took her hand and squeezed. “Do I look a mess?” she asked. He nodded. “But you’re my mess,” he whispered. And he was very glad for that.”

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

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42. “To this day, The Duke and I remains particularly close to my heart; I felt it was the novel in which my writing took a huge leap forward.”

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43. “It seems silly now, but I was so worried you weren’t the perfect man of my dreams.” “No one is perfect,” he said quietly. “I know.” She leaned over and planted an impulsive kiss on his cheek. “You’re the imperfect man of my heart, and that’s even better.”

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44. “But when Anthony kissed her, she felt as if she were losing her mind. And when he kissed her twice, she wasn’t even sure if she wanted it back!”

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45. “Weakness never got anyone anywhere.”

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46. “He was the firstborn Bridgerton of a firstborn Bridgerton of a firstborn Bridgerton eight times over. He had a dynastic responsibility to be fruitful and multiply.”

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47. “I have to tell you it was the first time even after all these years of expecting my own death that i truly knew what it meant to die because with you gone there was nothing left for me to live for.”

— Julia Quinn

48. “You always get more respect when you don’t have a happy ending.”

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49. “Because if he looked like he was unaffected by her smile, then she would not realize that, in actuality, he was in an utter panic because somewhere deep down inside he’d realized that his life had just changed forever.”

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50. “Just be quiet and accept the praise.”

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