Top 160 Kate Quinn Quotes (2024 Update)
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Kate Quinn Quote: “Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too. – MARCUS AURELIUS.”

151. “Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too. – MARCUS AURELIUS.”

Kate Quinn Quote: “Cancel leave, cancel meals, cancel sleep. The day is set.”

152. “Cancel leave, cancel meals, cancel sleep. The day is set.”

Kate Quinn Quote: “Day shifts weren’t so bad; you could step outside for a welcome jolt of sunshine and suck your soul back into your lungs.”

153. “Day shifts weren’t so bad; you could step outside for a welcome jolt of sunshine and suck your soul back into your lungs.”

Kate Quinn Quote: “So, Miss Gardiner,” Captain Cameron said. “Can I get a straight answer out of you if I ask a question?” Don’t count on it, Eve thought. She lied and evaded as easily as she breathed; it was what she’d had to do all her life. Lying, lying, lying, with a face like a daisy. Eve couldn’t remember the last time she’d been completely straight with anyone. Lies were easier than the hard and turbulent truth.”

154. “So, Miss Gardiner,” Captain Cameron said. “Can I get a straight answer out of you if I ask a question?” Don’t count on it, Eve thought. She lied and evaded as easily as she breathed; it was what she’d had to do all her life. Lying, lying, lying, with a face like a daisy. Eve couldn’t remember the last time she’d been completely straight with anyone. Lies were easier than the hard and turbulent truth.”

Kate Quinn Quote: “Such a light kiss, to leave her so pinned in place.”

155. “Such a light kiss, to leave her so pinned in place.”

Kate Quinn Quote: “Knowledge, to light the path for humankind,” I said at last. “And this” – patting my rifle – “to protect humankind when we lose that path.”

156. “Knowledge, to light the path for humankind,” I said at last. “And this” – patting my rifle – “to protect humankind when we lose that path.”

Kate Quinn Quote: “You’re part of the Greatest Generation, too, you old bat.”

157. “You’re part of the Greatest Generation, too, you old bat.”

Kate Quinn Quote: “Yorkshire’s a bally marvel,” Lily said loyally, washing her hands. She’d grown up in York not sixty miles away, her father’s town house a stone’s throw from York Minster even if Father spent most of his time in London.”

158. “Yorkshire’s a bally marvel,” Lily said loyally, washing her hands. She’d grown up in York not sixty miles away, her father’s town house a stone’s throw from York Minster even if Father spent most of his time in London.”

Kate Quinn Quote: “I used to think that no one could beat Soviet men for endless speeches, but when I came to America, I realized men of all nationalities like the sound of their own voices, especially the kind of man who spends long hours behind a podium. Whether in a Washington park or a Sevastopol battle zone, it’s all the same: after the first speech you’re afraid the boredom will kill you; after the fifth speech, you’re praying it will.”

159. “I used to think that no one could beat Soviet men for endless speeches, but when I came to America, I realized men of all nationalities like the sound of their own voices, especially the kind of man who spends long hours behind a podium. Whether in a Washington park or a Sevastopol battle zone, it’s all the same: after the first speech you’re afraid the boredom will kill you; after the fifth speech, you’re praying it will.”

Kate Quinn Quote: “Never listen to people like that, little daisy. They’re not only joyless drones, they usually wear chintz and think housework is a virtue.”

160. “Never listen to people like that, little daisy. They’re not only joyless drones, they usually wear chintz and think housework is a virtue.”

Kate Quinn Quote: “Retirement kills people like us, Eve. It’s how we die if the bullets don’t get there first.”

161. “Retirement kills people like us, Eve. It’s how we die if the bullets don’t get there first.”

Kate Quinn Quote: “And if she often felt like weeping from the stress and the fear and the endless grinding dread of it all, what did that matter? There was a war on; you pinned a smile in place and kept going.”

162. “And if she often felt like weeping from the stress and the fear and the endless grinding dread of it all, what did that matter? There was a war on; you pinned a smile in place and kept going.”

Kate Quinn Quote: “But we’re at war, and wars are mankind against mankind. Not innocent beasts.”

163. “But we’re at war, and wars are mankind against mankind. Not innocent beasts.”

Kate Quinn Quote: “When a girl has broken national security to ease your mind about your family’s lying in the path of an invasion route, she has officially become a friend.”

164. “When a girl has broken national security to ease your mind about your family’s lying in the path of an invasion route, she has officially become a friend.”

Kate Quinn Quote: “If I wish a suitable companion, it has struck me that I will have to play Pygmalion from the Greek myth, and sculpt one for myself.”

165. “If I wish a suitable companion, it has struck me that I will have to play Pygmalion from the Greek myth, and sculpt one for myself.”

Kate Quinn Quote: “It will be different, she told herself, after the war. When they weren’t trying to conduct a marriage almost entirely by post.”

166. “It will be different, she told herself, after the war. When they weren’t trying to conduct a marriage almost entirely by post.”

Kate Quinn Quote: “She had flirted all her life, instinctively, defensively. You play that same game, she thought, looking at Philip. Be charming to all, so no one gets too close.”

167. “She had flirted all her life, instinctively, defensively. You play that same game, she thought, looking at Philip. Be charming to all, so no one gets too close.”

Kate Quinn Quote: “Better to live an old maid with a shiny desk and a salary in the bank, proudly achieved through the sweat of her own efforts, than end up disappointed and old before her time thanks to long factory hours and too much childbirth. Anything was better than that.”

168. “Better to live an old maid with a shiny desk and a salary in the bank, proudly achieved through the sweat of her own efforts, than end up disappointed and old before her time thanks to long factory hours and too much childbirth. Anything was better than that.”

Kate Quinn Quote: “Dilly Knox was one of the Park’s eccentric geniuses, notorious for his absentmindedness, his Alice-in-Wonderland approach to codebreaking, and his habit of recruiting only women for his team.”

169. “Dilly Knox was one of the Park’s eccentric geniuses, notorious for his absentmindedness, his Alice-in-Wonderland approach to codebreaking, and his habit of recruiting only women for his team.”

Kate Quinn Quote: “She’d learned something these last few days about dealing with cryptanalysts: point them at the coffee, point them at the problem, then get out of the way.”

170. “She’d learned something these last few days about dealing with cryptanalysts: point them at the coffee, point them at the problem, then get out of the way.”

Kate Quinn Quote: “Excellent, now it can all go back to the way it was.” As if roofs and buildings and shattered windows just leaped back into wholeness the day after peace was declared.”

171. “Excellent, now it can all go back to the way it was.” As if roofs and buildings and shattered windows just leaped back into wholeness the day after peace was declared.”

Kate Quinn Quote: “I believe in books,” he said finally.”

172. “I believe in books,” he said finally.”

Kate Quinn Quote: “I had nothing left to bring up, but my stomach turned itself inside out anyway.”

173. “I had nothing left to bring up, but my stomach turned itself inside out anyway.”

Kate Quinn Quote: “What I mean is, it’s not a matter of age. There are boys aged fifty, and men aged fifteen. It’s all in what they do, not how old they are.”

174. “What I mean is, it’s not a matter of age. There are boys aged fifty, and men aged fifteen. It’s all in what they do, not how old they are.”

Kate Quinn Quote: “He smiled bitterly. “Bullets, boredom, or brandy – that’s how people like us go, because God knows we aren’t made for peace.”

175. “He smiled bitterly. “Bullets, boredom, or brandy – that’s how people like us go, because God knows we aren’t made for peace.”

Kate Quinn Quote: “Keep Mum, She’s Not So Dumb!” Did you really need a war, Lily wondered, to remind men that women weren’t stupid? Of course you bally well did.”

176. “Keep Mum, She’s Not So Dumb!” Did you really need a war, Lily wondered, to remind men that women weren’t stupid? Of course you bally well did.”

Kate Quinn Quote: “The Londoners I’d encountered seemed to carry themselves with a certain grim humor, as if to say, You still can’t get cream with your scones, but we never did get invaded, eh?”

177. “The Londoners I’d encountered seemed to carry themselves with a certain grim humor, as if to say, You still can’t get cream with your scones, but we never did get invaded, eh?”

Kate Quinn Quote: “I’m too much a patched-together pot for that, but at least the pot is fit to hold water through the day to come.”

178. “I’m too much a patched-together pot for that, but at least the pot is fit to hold water through the day to come.”

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