Top 300 Julia Quinn Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “In her heart she longed for this man, dreamed of a life that could never be.”

— Julia Quinn

102. “Colin leaned forward. “I really did not want to leave my wife.”

— Julia Quinn

103. “Am I not allowed to have my pride? Or is that an emotion reserved for the elite?”

— Julia Quinn

104. “And then there was Kate Sheffield. The bane of his existence. And the object of his desires. All at once.”

— Julia Quinn

105. “I had to do something,” she said. “I couldn’t just sit and wait for life to happen to me any longer.”

— Julia Quinn

106. “Colin decided then and there that the female mind was a strange and incomprehensible organ – one which no man should even attempt to understand. There wasn’t a woman alive who could go from point A to B without stopping at C, D, X, and 12 along the way.”

— Julia Quinn

107. “I keep waiting for the day in which everyone who loves Downton Abbey will realize they were actually watching a historical romance novel.”

— Julia Quinn

108. “She’d met Colin on a Monday. She’d kissed him on a Friday. Twelve years later. She sighed. It seemed fairly pathetic.”

— Julia Quinn

109. “It’s only through sheer force and luck that she’s yet to take over the world.”

— Julia Quinn

110. “Many a woman has been ruined by a single kiss.”

— Julia Quinn

111. “Mysterious creatures, women. If they could just learn to say what they meant, the world would be a far simpler place.”

— Julia Quinn

112. “John ignored her insult, recognizing it for what it was: a mindless jibe from one wounded animal to another.”

— Julia Quinn

113. “I must protest.” “To whom?” That seemed to flummox him. “I don’t know,” he finally said. “But a protest must be lodged nonetheless.” “I don’t think the dog meant to shoot him,” Iris demurred. “You mean the author does not make the canine’s motivations clear?” Iris assumed a scrupulously even expression. “Even she lacks such talent.”

— Julia Quinn

114. “Caroline Trent hadn’t meant to shoot Percival Prewitt, but she had, and now he was dead. Or at least she thought he was dead.”

— Julia Quinn

115. “She didn’t want to be commended for knowing how to settle for second-best. That was like winning a prize for the prettiest shoes in a footrace. Irrelevant and not the point.”

— Julia Quinn

116. “You may love me more, but I will love you better.”

— Julia Quinn

117. “Anthony looked down at his evil clutches – hands, he reminded himself, hands – and grinned anew.”

— Julia Quinn

118. “This has to be the most self-centered thing I’ve ever said, but no, I think you just wanted to vex me.”

— Julia Quinn

119. “He did things to her, she realized. Strange, shivery things that left her breathless. He need only to look at her – not in his usual, conversational way, but to really look at her, to let his eyes settle on hers, deeply blue and insightful, and she felt naked, her soul bared.”

— Julia Quinn

120. “Good,” Colin muttered, taking a bite. “I’m famished.” “How can you think of food?” Gregory said angrily. “I always think of food,” Colin replied, his eyes searching the table until he located the butter. “What else is there?” “Your wife,” Benedict drawled.”

— Julia Quinn

121. “It was juvenile, he knew, this need to assign blame, but everyone had a right to childish emotions from time to time, didn’t they?”

— Julia Quinn

122. “I suggest,” Colin said, raising one brow into a perfectly debonair arch, “that we flee the scene.”

— Julia Quinn

123. “I do love it when I am right,′ Hyacinth said triumphantly. ‘Which is fortunate, since I so often am.”

— Julia Quinn

124. “His brows rose. “And how is it that you have come to be such an expert on scrapes and bruises?” “I’m a governess,” she said. Because really, that ought to be explanation enough.”

— Julia Quinn

125. “Don’t tell me your name. It’s likely to awaken my conscience, and that’s the last thing we want.”

— Julia Quinn

126. “I didn’t think I should die but I did not know how I would Live.”

— Julia Quinn

127. “I would give the world to have one more person for whom I would lay down my life.”

— Julia Quinn

128. “Change what you can and accept what you can’t.”

— Julia Quinn

129. “If he was planning to attack and ravish, he gave no indication of being in a hurry to do so.”

— Julia Quinn

130. “The biggest challenge of my career, which is something that authors of genre fiction face all the time, is writing something fresh and new and at the same time meeting reader expectations.”

— Julia Quinn

131. “And so Harry became proficient in the task of cleaning up vomit.”

— Julia Quinn

132. “Everything was better with bacon. Life was better with bacon. “Elizabeth.”

— Julia Quinn

133. “How many great mysteries are there in life, really?” No one answered, so Colin guessed, “Forty-two?” She.”

— Julia Quinn

134. “I love you so much it scares me. If I could give you the world, you know I would do it, don’t you?”

— Julia Quinn

135. “At the end of the day, he was going to find himself either dead or married, and he wasn’t quite prepared to let the Bridgerton brothers take the matter to a vote. And.”

— Julia Quinn

136. “He loved her. He wanted her. He needed her. And he needed her now.”

— Julia Quinn

137. “If one didn’t have love, was it better, then, to be alone?”

— Julia Quinn

138. “As his hands moved to his trousers, he saw that she was pulling the bedsheets over her. “Don’t,” he said, barely recognizing his own voice. Her eyes met his, and he said, “I’ll be your blanket”.”

— Julia Quinn

139. “Maybe she was a wallflower. There was no shame in that. Especially not if one enjoyed being a wallflower.”

— Julia Quinn

140. “It was one of those things that had to be experienced to be understood.”

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141. “There were a lot of things in life to be afraid of, but strangeness ought not be among them.”

— Julia Quinn

142. “It’s the curse of motherhood. You’re required to love us even when we vex you.”

— Julia Quinn

143. “Billie laughed at that, full and throaty, and once again she became so incandescently beautiful that George was half-tempted to throw a blanket over her, just to stop anyone else from wanting her.”

— Julia Quinn

144. “Now I want you to listen to me,” he said in a low voice, taking her chin in his hand and forcing her to look at him. “And listen carefully, because I’m only going to say this once. You are going to marry me before this week is out. Since you have conveniently run off to Scotland, we don’t need a special license. You’re just lucky I don’t haul you off to a church right this instant. Get yourself a dress and get yourself some flowers, because, sweeetheart, you’re getting yourself a new name.”

— Julia Quinn

145. “It’s bacon. How can anything in the world seem bleak when one is eating bacon?”

— Julia Quinn

146. “Every unmarried man is looking for a wife. They just don’t always know it.”

— Julia Quinn

147. “She tried to say something witty; she tried to say something seductive. But her bravado failed her at the last moment. She’d never been kissed before, and now that she had all but invited him to be the first, she didn’t know what to do. His fingers loosened slightly around her wrist, but then they tugged, pulling her along with him as he stepped behind a tall, elaborately carved hedge. He whispered her name, touched her cheek. Her eyes widened, lips parted. And in the end, it was inevitable.”

— Julia Quinn

148. “Isn’t it nice,” the older lady said, leaning in so that only Penelope could hear her words, “to discover that we’re not exactly what we thought we were?”

— Julia Quinn

149. “Is it possible to be so happy for one person and at the same time be so sad for oneself? “Only the most generous in spirit can manage it. The rest of us don’t know how to be happy for another when our own dreams have gone astray.”

— Julia Quinn

150. “Lucy could feel herself slipping, sliding into need, falling into a hazy place of love and desire where right was not quite identifiable from wrong.”

— Julia Quinn