Top 500 Lisa Kleypas Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “You may put a man in a cravat, teach him manners, and make him attend a soiree, but hardly any of us are truly civilized.”

— Lisa Kleypas

152. “I would become anyone, anything for you. I would lie, steal, beg, kill for you. I’m not sorry for what I did in the past few months. My life would have been nothing without them.”

— Lisa Kleypas

153. “Whereas I will be with a wicked, handsome Rom who will keep me warm all night.”

— Lisa Kleypas

154. “The London season is like one of those Drury Lane melodramas in which marriage is always the ending. And no one ever seems to give any thought as to what happens after. But marriage isn’t the end of the story it’s the beginning. And it demands the efforts of both partners to make a success of it.”

— Lisa Kleypas

155. “Let her cover the mark as she will,‘” he quoted sardonically, “’the pang of it will always be in her heart.”

— Lisa Kleypas

156. “Hunt looked like a man who had visited many woman’s beds and knew exactly what to do in them.”

— Lisa Kleypas

157. “Nature had squandered an unreasonable quantity of male beauty on this undeserving creature.”

— Lisa Kleypas

158. “I didn’t mean to send love letters, but that is what they became. On their way to you, my words turned into heartbeats on the page.”

— Lisa Kleypas

159. “By being the master of the house. Back in America the woman is the ruler of the home, but in England everything revolves around the man.”

— Lisa Kleypas

160. “Daisy Bowman,” he said unevenly, “I’d spend eternity in hell for one hour with you.” “Is that how long it takes? An hour?” His reply was rueful. “Sweetheart, at this point it would be a miracle if I lasted one minute.”

— Lisa Kleypas

161. “Tell me where she is, or I’ll snap your neck like a wishbone!”

— Lisa Kleypas

162. “It was unfair that people who longed for love the most, searched the hardest for it, found it so elusive.”

— Lisa Kleypas

163. “I love you, he thought, looking at Win. I love every part of you, every thought and word... the entire complex, fascinating bundle of all the things you are. I want you with ten different kinds of need at once. I love all the seasons of you, the way you are now, the thought of how much more beautiful you’ll be in the decades to come. I love you for being the answer to every question my heart could ask.”

— Lisa Kleypas

164. “I never take advice, good or bad. That would only encourage more of it.”

— Lisa Kleypas

165. “Just look at the fellow, standing there like a bloody Greek god. Do you think she chose him because of his intellect?”

— Lisa Kleypas

166. “Most of the time when couples argue, it’s not really about the thing they’re fighting about; there’s a deeper reason why they’re arguing.”

— Lisa Kleypas

167. “I want you to admit just once what you feel for me. I want to know if you’ll miss me even a little. If you’ll remember me. If you’re sorry for anything.”

— Lisa Kleypas

168. “Oh, God,” Annabelle said feelingly, and turned her face against Hunt’s shoulder, as if closing her eyes would make them all disappear. Her ear tingled as Hunt bent to murmur to her, his voice threaded with amusement. “Checkmate.”

— Lisa Kleypas

169. “It would only lead to disappointment, even heartbreak, and her heart was too precious for me to let that happen.”

— Lisa Kleypas

170. “Cariad, nothing about this is casual to me. But if you want a long, sensitive discussion about my feelings, I can’t help you. I’m from North Wales, where we express ourselves by throwing rocks at trees. I’ve had more feelings in the past half-hour than I have in my entire life, and I’m at my limit.” “That still doesn’t – ” “I love whatever it is you’re made of. All of it.”

— Lisa Kleypas

171. “The smarter you are, the more reasons you have to be miserable.”

— Lisa Kleypas

172. “My heart only beats as an echo of yours.”

— Lisa Kleypas

173. “I’ll hold you ‘til the end of time, if that’s all you want from me. But there’s so much more I could do for you. I would treasure you. I would-” He broke off, leaning so close she felt as if she were drowning in the tropical azure and ocean green of his eyes. “Marry me, Cassandra- and we’ll tell them all to go to hell.”

— Lisa Kleypas

174. “If my love can hold you, I’ll keep you with me.”

— Lisa Kleypas

175. “Whatever her purposes, I won’t have my grandsons raised by an invertebrate.” “Sebastian,” she chided softly, although her lips quivered with amusement. “I mean for her to partner with Weston Ravenel. A healthy young buck with sharp wits and a full supply of manly vigor. He’ll do her much good.” “Let’s allow Phoebe to decide if she wants him,” Evie suggested. “She had better decide soon, or Westcliff will snap him up for one of his daughters.”

— Lisa Kleypas

176. “I think the busiest people are often the loneliest.”

— Lisa Kleypas

177. “I feel like I’ve been shut in a closet, and he’s on the other side, and he doesn’t have the key to unlock the door.”

— Lisa Kleypas

178. “If the hero hasn’t turned up, you may have to settle for the villain.” “If the villain’s the one who turns up, he is the hero.”

— Lisa Kleypas

179. “I’ve lost someone, too. And there were no rules for how to deal with the death of someone you loved. You had to accept that the loss would always stay with you, like a reminder note pinned to the inside of your jacket. But there were still opportunities for happiness. Even joy.”

— Lisa Kleypas

180. “Well, there was something I once read... It was an astronomy book that said in most of the constellations, the stars don’t actually belong together. They only appear to. They look to us as if they’re close to each other, but some of them exist in another part of the galaxy altogether. That’s how my family was. We seemed to belong to the same group, but we were all very far apart.”

— Lisa Kleypas

181. “But life is what novels are about. A novel can contain more truth than a thousand newspaper articles or scientific papers. It can make you imagine, just for a little while, that you’re someone else – and then you understand more about people who are different from you.”

— Lisa Kleypas

182. “You and I both know this doesn’t have a damned thing to do with honor.”

— Lisa Kleypas

183. “One can’t help but marvel at the variety of ways that women had devised to make us look like flaming idiots.”

— Lisa Kleypas

184. “Husband and wives are never completely honest with each other – no marriage could survive it.”

— Lisa Kleypas

185. “Daca-mi dau voie sa te sarut o data, ar urma inca o data, apoi inca una, si curand n-am mai putea sa ne oprim.”

— Lisa Kleypas

186. “No one ever thinks their own behavior is immoral, only other people’s.”

— Lisa Kleypas

187. “One could pick apart love, examine every filament of attraction, and still it would never be fully explained. It simply was.”

— Lisa Kleypas

188. “Kissing is the best thing lips do other than smiling.” Cassandra.”

— Lisa Kleypas

189. “My prize, my pleasure and pain, my endless desire. I’ve never know anyone like you.”

— Lisa Kleypas

190. “He stared at her the way he used to in the days of their youth, his eyes lit with open yearning.”

— Lisa Kleypas

191. “Sin is never free, there’s either an up-front cost or an invoice to pay later.”

— Lisa Kleypas

192. “Before I write the first page of a novel, I spend a long time creating detailed backgrounds for my characters. I imagine the experiences that have formed them, what makes them happy, angry, fearful, and what they yearn for.”

— Lisa Kleypas

193. “For God’s sake, Marks, do you think anyone really wants a glance at those dried-up matchsticks you call legs?”

— Lisa Kleypas

194. “I’m almost always in a predicament.”

— Lisa Kleypas

195. “There’s nothing more tedious than people who like to talk about themselves.”

— Lisa Kleypas

196. “I want you too badly, love. I want you the way dry earth soaks up rain. There may have been a time in my life when I could have seen you like this and still had some hope of self-control. Although I doubt it. I’ve never seen anything as beautiful as you.”

— Lisa Kleypas

197. “Wh-what rational woman would ever want a husband who looks like you?”

— Lisa Kleypas

198. “Comparing George to Zachary Bronson was like comparing a prince to a pirate. If one spent ten years doing nothing but drilling rules and rituals into Bronson’s head, anyone would still glance at him and immediately proclaim him a scoundrel. Nothing would ever dispel the rascally gleam in his black eyes or the heathen charm of his smile.”

— Lisa Kleypas

199. “Dating is like trying to make a meal out of leftovers. Some leftovers actually get better when they’ve had a little time to mature. But others should be thrown out right away, No matter how you try to warm them up, they’re never as good as when they were new.”

— Lisa Kleypas

200. “Escort Mr. Ravenel up to my private apartments, where it seems I’ll be giving counsel to yet another of my daughter’s tormented suitors. This must be a penance for my misspent youth.”

— Lisa Kleypas