Top 300 Julia Quinn Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Edmund Bridgerton had died at the age of thirty-eight. And Anthony simply couldn’t imagine ever surpassing his father in any way, even in years.”

— Julia Quinn

52. “It was strange, to find a woman who could make him happy just with her mere presence. He didn’t even have to see her, or hear her voice, or even smell her scent. He just had to know that she was there.”

— Julia Quinn

53. “I think it’s time we introduced this little fellow to his family,” she said. “Don’t you?” Francesca held out her arms to take the baby, but Violet turned away. “Not just yet,” she said. She wanted to hold him a while longer. Maybe until Tuesday. “Mother, I think he might be hungry.” Violet assumed an arch expression. “He’ll let us know.” “But – ” “I know a thing or two about babies, Francesca Bridgerton Stirling.” Violet grinned down at John. “They adore their grandmamas, for example.”

— Julia Quinn

54. “And if you say that’s because you lot barged into her home like a herd of mentally deficient sheep, I’m disowning all three of you.”

— Julia Quinn

55. “He sighed, wondering how his life had been turned upside down by this woman in less than forty-eight hours. Correction: by this woman, a pig, and a rabbit.”

— Julia Quinn

56. “And for the rest of the night, he couldn’t quite forget the smell of her perfume. Or maybe it was the soft sound of her chuckle. Or maybe it was neither of those things. Maybe it was just her.”

— Julia Quinn

57. “She tried to remind herself that beauty was only skin deep, but that didn’t offer any helpful excuses when she was berating herself for never knowing what to say to people. There was nothing more depressing than an ugly girl with no personality.”

— Julia Quinn

58. “Everything tastes better with quite a lot of butter.” “We.”

— Julia Quinn

59. “But she was already in. Gareth couldn’t help but stand back in admiration. Hyacinth Bridgerton was clearly a natural born athlete. Either that or a cat burglar.”

— Julia Quinn

60. “Before she knew what she was about, she was jumping about like a crazy woman, yelling, “Yes! Yes! I win!” “You don’t win,” Anthony snapped. “Oh, it feels like I’ve won,” she reveled.”

— Julia Quinn

61. “Did you know I dream about your hair? I use to say it was the color of the sun at sunset, but I’m wrong. It’s brighter than the sun, just as you are.”

— Julia Quinn

62. “George, I will stand with you between the heavens and the earth. I will tell you where you are.”

— Julia Quinn

63. “No man of any intelligence would pretend to know a female mind.”

— Julia Quinn

64. “You don’t always have to kiss a lot of frogs to recognize a prince when you find one -Henrietta Barett.”

— Julia Quinn

65. “This thing between them, this bond – it wasn’t just passion, and it wasn’t wicked. It was love, and it was divine.”

— Julia Quinn

66. “And so, on an otherwise unremarkable Friday afternoon, in the heart of Mayfair, in a quiet drawing room on Mount Street, Colin Bridgerton kissed Penelope Featherington.”

— Julia Quinn

67. “She had been born for this man, and she had spent so many years trying to accept the fact that he had been born for someone else...”

— Julia Quinn

68. “He smiled, and suddenly she knew that his words were true. Everything would be all right. Maybe not today and maybe not tomorrow, but soon. Tragedy couldn’t coexist in a world with one of Colin’s smiles.”

— Julia Quinn

69. “I knew nothing but love and devotion when I was growing up. Trust me, it makes everything easier.”

— Julia Quinn

70. “Simon groaned. “Do young ladies still need permission to waltz?”

— Julia Quinn

71. “Any man, you’ll soon learn, has an insurmountable need to blame someone else when he is made to look a fool.”

— Julia Quinn

72. “The ranks of society are once again filled with Ambitious Mamas, whose only aim is to see their Darling Daughters married off to Determined Bachelors.”

— Julia Quinn

73. “He was a rogue and scoundrel, and probably a hundred other things as well, but he was her rogue and scoundrel, and she knew he possessed a heart as fine and true as any man she could ever hope to meet.”

— Julia Quinn

74. “Hush up, minx. You’re a funny one, but you’re certainly more likable than unlikable.”

— Julia Quinn

75. “Daniel held himself very still, waiting for the wave of jealousy that never came. He was furious with the man who’d taken advantage of her innocence, but he did not feel jealous. He did not need to be her first, he realized. He simply needed to be her last. Her only.”

— Julia Quinn

76. “The waltz allowed him to get just close enough to her to detect that maddening scent of lemons, and he inhaled it as if it would save his life.”

— Julia Quinn

77. “Olivia: You didn’t even know I was there! Harry: Excuse me, yes I did.”

— Julia Quinn

78. “Heartache, Daphne eventually learned, never really went away; it just dulled. The sharp, stabbing pain that one felt with each breath eventually gave way to a blunter, lower ache – the kind that one could almost – but never quite – ignore.”

— Julia Quinn

79. “Five years with the dowager – Good God, she ought to be given a title in her own right as a penance for such as that. No one had done more for England.”

— Julia Quinn

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

— Julia Quinn

81. “It occurred to Anthony that when she wasn’t arguing with him, Kate Sheffield might bloody well be the finest woman in England.”

— Julia Quinn

82. “I vow to spend the rest of my life keeping your hands and feet warm.”

— Julia Quinn

83. “In his heart, she’d been smiling for him. But now she was smiling at Colin Bridgerton, he of the famous charm and sparkling green eyes.”

— Julia Quinn

84. “This was Penelope, and this was love.”

— Julia Quinn

85. “No, she didn’t need someone perfect. She just needed someone perfect for her.”

— Julia Quinn

86. “Why? It’s because I love you, damn me to hell. Because I’ve always loved you. Because I loved you when you were with John, and I loved you when I was in India, and God only knows I don’t deserve you, but I love you, anyway.”

— Julia Quinn

87. “He was always dependable, she realized. She was usually too busy being irritated by him to notice.”

— Julia Quinn

88. “Our world is filled with meaningless conversations. It is an honour to participate in one that is not.”

— Julia Quinn

89. “He’d been waiting for a love fraught with passion and drama; it hadn’t even occurred to him that true love might be something that was utterly comfortable and just plain easy.”

— Julia Quinn

90. “There are moments in a woman’s life when her heart flips in her chest, when the world suddenly seems uncommonly pink and perfect, when a symphony can be heard in the tinkle of a doorbell.”

— Julia Quinn

91. “He didn’t know what he felt. For the first time in his life, his thoughts were a jumble, tossing and turning and writing over each other like an endlessly edited story.”

— Julia Quinn

92. “He didn’t know where the thought had come from, or what strange corner of his brain had come to that conclusion, because he was quite certain it would be nearly impossible to live with her, but somehow he knew that it wouldn’t be at all difficult to love her.”

— Julia Quinn

93. “My dear Miss Bridgerton,” he said, wiping his eyes, “if you are the soul of kindness and amiability, then the world must be a very dangerous place.”

— Julia Quinn

94. “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a married man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of an heir.”

— Julia Quinn

95. “When the dead body said, “Good evening,” Annabel had to face the grim conclusion that it wasn’t as dead as she’d hoped.”

— Julia Quinn

96. “She could not bear the thought. She simply could not bear the thought that she might somehow prove to her grandfather that her mother had indeed been a fool and her father had been a damned fool and that she was the damnedest fool of them all.”

— Julia Quinn

97. “There was a certain history to this. While heavily pregnant with Amelia, she had asked him if she was radiant or if she just looked like a waddling duck. He told her she’d looked like a radiant duck. This had not been the correct answer.”

— Julia Quinn

98. “I always loved everything about you, of course, but for some reason I always found your impatience especially charming. It was never because you wanted more, it was because you wanted everything.”

— Julia Quinn

99. “Francesca: It’s still a bit cold yet. Michael: Never stopped John and me. Francesca: Yes, well, you’re Scottish. Your blood circulates quite well half frozen.”

— Julia Quinn

100. “Standing still is always more tiring than walking.”

— Julia Quinn