Top 300 Julia Quinn Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Stirlings of old had been so damned besotted with their newfound earldom that they couldn’t think to put any other name on anything... It was a wonder he didn’t drink Kilmartin Tea and sit on a Kilmartin-style chair. In fact, he probably would be doing just that if his grandmother had found a way to manage it without actually taking the family into trade.”

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152. “He knew well the singularly strange sensation of loving one’s family to distraction, and yet not feeling quite able to share one’s deepest and most intractable fears. It brought on an uncanny sense of isolation, of being remarkably alone in a loud and loving crowd.”

— Julia Quinn

153. “He rolled his eyes. Why was he surprised about anything having to do with her? Of course she’d be able to lift a large stone. She was Henry. She could probably lift him.”

— Julia Quinn

154. “We’ve been through nothing, you ridiculous man, but I suppose you may call me Daphne nonetheless.” “Excellent.” He nodded in a condescending manner. “You may call me ’your grace.”

— Julia Quinn

155. “A man’s got to keep up appearances. I’ll be universally detested if everyone realizes how perfect you are.”

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156. “Oh, go ahead and giggle,” Lady Danbury sighed. “I’ve found that the only way to avoid parental frustration is to view him as a source of amusement.”

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157. “It was not that he’d changed her; all of the seeds were already there. But with him, she grew.”

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158. “Colin was still working on his food, having somehow managed to charm the servants into bringing him a bowl of soup. He’d set down his spoon, though, and was presently examining his other hand, idly flexing each finger in turn, murmuring a word as each pointed out toward Phillip. “Miss. My. Wife.” “Bloody hell,” Phillip finally burst out. “If you’re going to break my legs, would you just go ahead and do it now?”

— Julia Quinn

159. “Elizabeth, you resemble nothing so much as a hen trying to hatch a book.”

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160. “Billie tried not to think of George. But she wasn’t successful. Like it or not, he was her who.”

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161. “Watch over Honoria, will you? See that she doesn’t marry an idiot.”

— Julia Quinn

162. “This letter is for both of you. I am so glad you have each other. The world is a kinder place when one’s burdens can be shared.”

— Julia Quinn

163. “But the duchess, God bless her, knew her role in life, and after a six-month recuperative period, she opened the connecting door between their bedrooms, and the duke once again commenced his quest for a son. Five.”

— Julia Quinn

164. “As she spoke, she turned her face toward his, and in that instant, with the wind catching her hair and painting her cheeks pink, she looked so enchantingly lovely that Simon nearly forgot to breathe.”

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165. “It occurred to him that perhaps he ought not to have married a woman with such extraordinary eyes.”

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166. “No one knows as well as I how much nonsense is printed in books.”

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167. “People are like fine wines. If they start off good, they only get better with age.”

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168. “It was the one dream he’d never permitted himself to consider.”

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169. “One needs a certain base of knowledge before one can ask sensible questions.”

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170. “She’d worn that color, or gray in its place, for three years now. And unrelenting black for a year before that. It had been a bit of a badge, she realized, a uniform of sorts. One never had to worry about who one was when one’s clothing proclaimed it so loudly.”

— Julia Quinn

171. “Actually, I’m an excellent liar. But what I’m really good at is appearing appropriately sheepish and adorable after I’m caught.”

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172. “If he hadn’t married Iris, he’d want her for a friend.”

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173. “A man with charm is an entertaining thing, and a man with looks is, ofcourse, a sight to behold, but a man with honor – ah, he is the one, dear reader, to which young ladies should flock.”

— Julia Quinn

174. “Nothing like trapping the gentlemen where they couldn’t get away.”

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175. “Promise me,” she said. “You have to promise me than you will always be more happy than you are sorry.”

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176. “She needed him to be him. Even if he could not be hers.”

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177. “It was a damned good thing men couldn’t have children. Gregory took no shame in admitting that the human race would have died out generations earlier.”

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178. “We are women. And the men who hold our fates hardly conceive that we have desires and dreams of our own. If we are ever to live the lives we want, we have to make them conceive it. Our bravery, the force of our will, shall be their proof.”

— Julia Quinn

179. “Baiting her was great fun. And he didn’t feel the least bit guilty for it. For all her disgruntled behavior, he had no doubt that she enjoyed the verbal sparring every bit as much as he did.”

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180. “Bloody hell,” Phillip finally burst out. “If you’re going to break my legs, would you just go ahead and do it now?”

— Julia Quinn

181. “Why waste romance on a love that would never be returned?”

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182. “And that was when she finally allowed herself to cry. Funny how she could hold herself together, keep it all inside until she saw him. But now that he was here, all she could do was bury her face in the warmth of his chest, snuggle closer as his arms wrapped around her. As if somehow he could make all her problems go away by his presence alone.”

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183. “But as they settled into their seats in the inn’s busy dining room, he looked at her across the table and it wasn’t her beauty he saw. It was her heart. And her soul. And he had a sinking feeling that his life was never going to be the same.”

— Julia Quinn

184. “Was the world populated with blind men, or merely stupid ones?”

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185. “He didn’t know if there was a word to describe what he felt in that moment, how he saw the lines of his own heart when her eyes met his.”

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186. “George leaned to the right so that he could see her from behind his brother. “Shall I strangle him or will you?” She rewarded him with a devious smile. “Oh, it must be a joint endeavor, don’t you think?” “So that you may share the blame?” Andrew quipped. “So that we may share the joy,” Billie corrected. “You wound me.” “Happily, I assure you.”

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187. “He didn’t like her. He really didn’t, but by God, he’d have sold a piece of his soul right then to dance with her.”

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188. “He was a puzzle. And Hyacinth hated puzzles. Well, no, in truth she loved them. Provided, of course, that she solved them.”

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189. “James started to laugh. His chin hurt where she’d smacked him twice, his foot throbbed where she’d stepped on it, and his entire body felt as if he’d swum through a rosebush, which wasn’t as far off the truth as it sounded. Yet still he started to laugh.”

— Julia Quinn

190. “But he had saved her. That was irrefutable. Maybe it didn’t really matter why he’d come to Phillip’s party, only that he had, and he had saved her.”

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191. “Men, she thought with disgust, were interested only in those women who terrified them.”

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192. “A person should read a book because it speaks to something in his heart.”

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193. “Never,” he spat out, “kick a man who is pointing a gun at you.”

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194. “He touched her cheek, and he looked into her eyes. He saw his whole world there.”

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195. “You married into the family. You have to love me. It’s a contractual obligation.”

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196. “But it does feed a strange longing to touch a dew-dampened lawn, or feel a cool mist on one’s face, or even to remember the joy of a perfect day after a week of rain.”

— Julia Quinn

197. “You sorts who excel at arithmetic simply don’t understand how we lesser mortals can look at a page of numbers and not know the answer – or at least how to get to the answer – instantly.”

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198. “Where is he?” Violet demanded without preamble. “My husband, I presume?” “No, your great-uncle Edmund,” Violet practically snapped. “Of course I mean your husband.”

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199. “I was told once that the most important part of a fight is making sure your opponent looks worse than you do when you’re through.”

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200. “Love was the best present of all...”

— Julia Quinn