Top 300 Julia Quinn Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “They say that a smart person learns from her mistakes,” she interrupted, her voice forcefully ending his protest. “But a truly smart person learns from other people’s mistakes.”

— Julia Quinn

202. “Mother, I spoke to the duke. He understands that this is not a formal meal. And he specifically told me that he was looking forward to a change of pace. He has no family himself, so he has never experienced anything like a Bridgerton family dinner.” “God help us.” Violet’s face went utterly pale.”

— Julia Quinn

203. “Have you found the milk,” he asked, “or must I venture out in search of a cow?”

— Julia Quinn

204. “Simon gave her a startled look. ‘I don’t believe I have ever been condescended to by a woman before.’ She shrugged. ‘It was probably past time.”

— Julia Quinn

205. “Michael felt something tearing in his chest. His heart, probably, but he was growing so used to the feeling it was a wonder he still noticed it.”

— Julia Quinn

206. “Why are you here?” she whispered, once he’d finally got the damnable Miss Finch out of the room. For a moment he could only stare. “You’re not seriously asking me that.” “I – ” “You left me.” She shook her head. “I set you free.” He snorted at that. “You’ve had me locked up for over a year.”

— Julia Quinn

207. “Most fiction series are written so that the reader can come in at any point and not feel lost, but if you can start at the beginning, why not?”

— Julia Quinn

208. “She hadn’t expected the world to be handed to her upon a golden platter, but she’d always assumed that if she worked hard enough for something, treated everyone the way she would like to be treated, then she would be rewarded.”

— Julia Quinn

209. “From the moment I saw you trying to go over the wall, I have loved you desperately. I cannot breathe when you are not near. I love you, Charlotte.”

— Julia Quinn

210. “I would give the world to have one more person for whom I would lay down my life,” he said. And then Hyacinth realized that some things did come in a flash. And there were some things one simply knew without possessing the ability to explain them. Because in that moment she knew that she was going to marry this man. No one else would do.”

— Julia Quinn

211. “It means that love isn’t about being afraid that it will all be snatched away. Love’s about finding the one person who makes your heart complete, who makes you a better person than you ever dreamed you could.”

— Julia Quinn

212. “There was a huge difference between dislike and disregard.”

— Julia Quinn

213. “She simply wasn’t the sort of girl who attracted a man like him, and she feared that she never would be.”

— Julia Quinn

214. “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.”

— Julia Quinn

215. “Well, you know what they say about motherhood,” Penelope said. “ ‘They’?” Daphne murmured. Penelope paused just long enough to shoot her a wry grin. “The years fly by, and the days are endless.”

— Julia Quinn

216. “You did not go over the wall,” he said. She smiled. “No, George. I did not go over the wall.”

— Julia Quinn

217. “It’s good that you can be horrid when necessary. It’s a useful skill.”

— Julia Quinn

218. “You are the reason I exist,” she said softly, “the very reason I was born.”

— Julia Quinn

219. “And in that moment, she knew she loved him. With every thought, every emotion, every piece of her being, she loved him.”

— Julia Quinn

220. “I’m sure you’re already aware that you should never trust a gentleman who says you can trust him.”

— Julia Quinn

221. “But if she was destined to be alone, even with a husband at her side, then by God she’d be alone and strong.”

— Julia Quinn

222. “It was simple. His world was Kate. If he denied that, he might as well stop breathing right now.”

— Julia Quinn

223. “The people here can’t know that joy. Their days are always perfect. Can one appreciate perfection when it is a constant in one’s life?”

— Julia Quinn

224. “There were a thousand ways to make an idiot of oneself, with new opportunities arising every day. It was exhausting trying to avoid them all.”

— Julia Quinn

225. “Anthony glared at his brother, then for good measure at Miss Sheffield, who was looking at him as if he’d just despoiled ten virgins in her presence.”

— Julia Quinn

226. “If you can throw it, I can catch it.”

— Julia Quinn

227. “She could not be tamed. It would be a crime to even try.”

— Julia Quinn

228. “Just George? Farmer George? Come. Hide from the heavens with me.”

— Julia Quinn

229. “It isn’t gossip,” Hyacinth retorted. “It’s the honest dissemination of information.”

— Julia Quinn

230. “Death wasn’t frightening to a man alone. The great beyond held no terror when one had managed to avoid attachments here on earth.”

— Julia Quinn

231. “Get yourself a dress and get yourself some flowers, because, sweetheart, you’re getting yourself a new name.”

— Julia Quinn

232. “Please just say what you mean. It is exhausting trying to determine what everyone is saying to me when it has nothing to do with the words that are actually coming out of their mouths.”

— Julia Quinn

233. “He was her other half, the spoon she was made to nestle into. They would be young together, and then they would grow old together. They would hold hands, and move to the country, and make lots and lots of babies.”

— Julia Quinn

234. “The topic of rakes has, of course, been previously discussed in this column, and This Author has come to the conclusion that there are rakes, and there are Rakes. Anthony Bridgerton is a Rake.”

— Julia Quinn

235. “We are one crown. His weight is mine, and mine is his. One. Crown.”

— Julia Quinn

236. “And in that moment he realized that this was about more than love. This woman made him a better person. He’d been good and strong and kind before, but with her at his side, he was something more.”

— Julia Quinn

237. “I won’t offer you a penny for your thoughts, since I know they can’t possibly be worth that much, but what are you thinking about?”

— Julia Quinn

238. “I can live with you hating me... I just can’t live without you.”

— Julia Quinn

239. “No, I’m not going to forget it, I’ve spent my life forgetting things, not saying them, never telling anyone what I really want.”

— Julia Quinn

240. “Life isn’t about crawling under a rock and watching the world go by, desperately hoping it won’t touch us.” He knelt down and began to help her gather the pins. “Life is about taking chances, about reaching for the moon.”

— Julia Quinn

241. “There is something about the heavens. In this world we live in where I am given so much power and attention, it is good to remember that I am but a bit of dust on a small dot in the universe.”

— Julia Quinn

242. “Did words have meaning if they were never heard?”

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243. “It had been the oddest sensation when she’d met him, almost as if she were a jagged puzzle piece finally finding its mate.”

— Julia Quinn

244. “Did it matter what a man wrote if no one ever read it? Did words have meaning if they were never heard?”

— Julia Quinn

245. “Really, if people weren’t so intent on keeping young women completely ignorant of the realities of marriage, scenes like this could be avoided.”

— Julia Quinn

246. “Iris is not pleasant to live with when she is in ill humor and Daisy is not pleasant to live with when she is in good humor.”

— Julia Quinn

247. “How did you explain that some people were special? That they were somehow more than everyone else?”

— Julia Quinn

248. “What he needs to do,” Angus wheezed, “is travel south to Kintyre, turn back north and cross the Firth of Lorne to Mull so that he can scoot out to Iona, sail up to Skye, cross over to the mainland to Ullapool, back down to Inverness, pay his respects at Culloden, and from there, he can proceed south to Blair Castle, stopping in Grampian if he chooses so he can see how a proper bottle of whisky is made.”

— Julia Quinn

249. “Anthony could actually feel the tips of his ears turning red with barely leashed rage. “You, madam, are a menace to society.” She opened her mouth as if to return the insult, but instead she just offered him an almost frighteningly devious smile and turned to the dog and said, “Shake, Newton.”

— Julia Quinn

250. “Be grateful that I do not order you destroyed.”

— Julia Quinn