Top 500 Lisa Kleypas Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “You know what it is you smell on him, Haven? Testosterone. It’s leaking out of his pores.”

— Lisa Kleypas

352. “Do you think it could be loneliness?” he suggested. “No, it’s not that.” Severin looked pensive. “What do you call it when everything seems boring and pointless, and even the people you know well are like strangers?” “Loneliness,” Devon said flatly. “Damn it. That makes six.” “Six what?” Devon asked in bewilderment. “Feelings. I’ve never had more than five feelings, and they’re hard enough to manage as it is. I’ll be damned if I’ll add another.”

— Lisa Kleypas

353. “Evie, Duchess of Kingston, had spent a perfectly wonderful afternoon with her three closest friends at Lord Westcliff’s estate. Long ago, she had met Annabelle, Lillian, and Daisy during her first London Season, when they had been a group of wallflowers sitting in chairs at the side of the ballroom. While becoming acquainted, it had occurred to them that instead of competing for gentlemen’s attentions, they would do better to help each other, and so a lifelong friendship had blossomed.”

— Lisa Kleypas

354. “Obviously he’s courting the entire family,” West told her. “I can’t speak for everyone else, but I for one feel thoroughly wooed.”

— Lisa Kleypas

355. “Easy, pet.” His voice was laced with soft amusement. “I detect evidence of a temper, which I’ve no doubt you inherited from the old man. I’ve seen his eyes flash just that way when his dander is up over some trifle.”

— Lisa Kleypas

356. “He’s a man, dear,” Amelia explained kindly. “Sustained thinking is very difficult for them.” “As opposed to women,” Leo retorted, “who have the remarkable ability to make decisions without doing any thinking at all.”

— Lisa Kleypas

357. “He should never have allowed himself to accept Daisy’s challenge, should never have stayed and played that bloody game for hours. It was just that Daisy had been so adorable, and while they played her attention had been focused entirely on him, and that had been too much temptation to withstand. She was the most provoking, beguiling woman he had ever met. Thunderstorms and rainbows wrapped together in a convenient pocket-sized parcel.”

— Lisa Kleypas

358. “You can’t love someone new without getting over the last one.”

— Lisa Kleypas

359. “Fate is the malevolent little jester sitting up in the heavens and pondering over how ridiculous we humans are and he does his best to make fools out of all of us. And sooner or later he succeeds.”

— Lisa Kleypas

360. “You’ll have to think of a way to solve this, Evie. Think of something fast... because otherwise... ” He paused to nip hungrily at her ear, “... otherwise I’m about to screw you senseless.”

— Lisa Kleypas

361. “My parents never said it. They thought you shouldn’t wear out the words.”

— Lisa Kleypas

362. “A man who wants trouble can find it anywhere.”

— Lisa Kleypas

363. “I’m not going to ask a thousand people for their opinions,” Phoebe said evenly. “Only one opinion is required, and it happens to be mine.” She went to the doorway and paused, unable to resist adding, “That’s leadership.”

— Lisa Kleypas

364. “In the past few years it had become a rare luxury for all of them to be together at once, especially since Daisy stayed in America with her husband, Matthew, for long periods of time. The trips were necessary for both of them: Matthew was a successful business entrepreneur, and Daisy was a successful novelist with a publisher in New York as well as London.”

— Lisa Kleypas

365. “I want us to be faithful to each other,” she said gravely. “From this day forward.” There was a brief silence, a hesitation born not of doubt, but awareness. As if their vows were being heard and witnessed by some unseen presence. Merripen’s chest rose and fell in a long, deep breath. “I’ll be faithful to you,” he said. “Forever.” “So will I.” “Promise also that you’ll never leave me again.” Win lifted her hand from the center of his chest and pressed a kiss there. “I promise.”

— Lisa Kleypas

366. “I cry too easily,” she said in vexation. “I always have. I hate it.” “Why?” “It shows weakness.” “It shows strength,” he said. “Stoic people are the weak ones.”

— Lisa Kleypas

367. “I’m shocked,” St. Vincent said gravely, “but I’ll recover.” Looking around them as if to ascertain that he wouldn’t be overheard, he whispered conspiratorially, “I’m not really a gentleman, you know.”

— Lisa Kleypas

368. “The earl shook his head, exhibiting a degree of frosty offense that could only be achieved by an aristocrat whose wishes had just been gainsaid. “I’ve never heard of a man being so eager to confess to the parent of a girl he’s just ruined,” he said sourly.”

— Lisa Kleypas

369. “Everyone striving to be witty and sought-after, everyone talking and no one listening...”

— Lisa Kleypas

370. “I felt the kind of loneliness that can happen in a roomful of people when everyone but you seems to be in on the good time.”

— Lisa Kleypas

371. “He loved the colors of her, pink and mauve and ivory, all washed in light. The glistening tumble of her hair held the colors of autumn: chestnut, maple, russet, umber.”

— Lisa Kleypas

372. “I have so much love for you, I could fill rooms with it. Buildings. You’re surrounded by it wherever you go, you walk through it, breathe it... it’s in your lungs, and under your tongue, and between your fingers and toes... ” His mouth moved passionately over hers, urging her lips apart. It was a kiss to level mountains and shake stars from the sky. It was a kiss to make angels faint and demons weep... a passionate, demanding, soul-searing kiss that nearly knocked the earth off its axis. Or at least that was how Poppy felt about it.”

— Lisa Kleypas

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373. “Bychan: little one Cariad: sweetheart, beloved one Annwyl:.”

— Lisa Kleypas

374. “If I ever get arrested,” I said, “you will be my one phone call. Bail me out – that’s what you can do.” “If you ever get arrested,” Sofia said, “I’ll already be in jail as your accomplice.”

— Lisa Kleypas

375. “Thank God you know what labels to affix to people. It would be so inconvenient to have to judge them individually.”

— Lisa Kleypas

376. “Devlin’s disarming blue eyes were set in a face of such perfect masculine beauty that it should have come from a painting or a sculpture. Yet there was nothing aristocratic about his looks. He possessed an earthiness, a sensuality, that was impossible to ignore. If he resembled an angel, it was a fallen one.”

— Lisa Kleypas

377. “You shouldn’t rule out second chances. Sometimes they come with interesting bonus features.”

— Lisa Kleypas

378. “Heart of my heart, you need no man to give you away. Just come to me of your own free will. Love me for who I am... just as I love you for who you are... and our bond will last until the stars lose their shining.”

— Lisa Kleypas

379. “You’re not worried about being compromised, are you?” he asked. “Because I’ve already done that.”

— Lisa Kleypas

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380. “They exchanged a brief grin and Westcliff left the room. “Arrogant, high-handed creature,” Lillian remarked, her smile lingering as she watched the earl’s departure. “God, I adore him.”

— Lisa Kleypas

381. “I went to the tray on the bed-table and picked up the Vicodin tablets the nurse had been trying to get him to take, along with a cup of water. “Take these,” I said. “No arguing.” He obeyed, shooting a glance at the nurse, whose eyebrows were slightly raised. “She’s little,” he told her, “but she’s mean.”

— Lisa Kleypas

382. “The right words can bind someone more effectively than chains.”

— Lisa Kleypas

383. “Beatrix had met Christopher Phelan on two occasions, the first at a local dance, where she had judged him to be the most arrogant man in Hampshire. The next time she had met him was at a picnic, where she had revised her opinion: he was the most arrogant man in the entire world.”

— Lisa Kleypas

384. “I didn’t think there was any way to convince Jack that he wanted more than I had to give, that to people who’d been damaged the way I had been, fear and the will to survive would always be more powerful than attachment. I could only love in a limited way.”

— Lisa Kleypas

385. “Infuriated to the point of speechlessness, Kathleen glared at him while Helen discreetly pried the butter knife from her clenched fingers.”

— Lisa Kleypas

386. “The glittering light of eight chandeliers was reflected in her upturned eyes, filling them with tiny sparks that made the blue irises look like a starry summer midnight. She was staring at him with an intensity that she had never shown before, as if she yearned for something she might never have. The look disquieted him, eliciting a powerful need to satisfy her in any way possible. Whatever she might have asked him for in that moment, he would have given without a qualm.”

— Lisa Kleypas

387. “You’re far too prickly tempered to be a mistress. You’re far better suited as a wife.”

— Lisa Kleypas

388. “I stand by my opinions when I know I’m right, Captain Phelan. Whereas you stand by yours merely because you’re stubborn.”

— Lisa Kleypas

389. “It seemed that no matter what her faults were, he was willing to accept her for who she was, and who she was not.”

— Lisa Kleypas

390. “I want to make you scream and claw and faint in my arms,” he whispered, his masculine bristle scraping against her skin.”

— Lisa Kleypas

391. “I need you for a lot of things, Hardy. A lifetime’s worth of things.”

— Lisa Kleypas

392. “Father, wouldn’t it be wonderful if hummingbirds had tea parties and we were small enough to be invited?”

— Lisa Kleypas

393. “For the first time in his life, he was beginning to recognize that true passion was not easily satisfied, that there was a difference between the needs of his cock and the organ that resided two feet above it. It was not a welcome discovery.”

— Lisa Kleypas

394. “It was one of those silences that was far more eloquent than words.”

— Lisa Kleypas

395. “I want a companion who’ll go on walks with me, and sit on my lap while I pet him.” “You’ll have me for that.” Cassandra pointed to the contract. “Dog,” she insisted. “I’m afraid it’s nonnegotiable.”

— Lisa Kleypas

396. “Without thinking, Lillian let out a few curse words that caused Evie to blanch. One of Lillian’s more questionable accomplishments was the ability to swear as fluently as a sailor, acquired from much time spent with her grandmother, who had worked as a washwoman at the harbor docks.”

— Lisa Kleypas

397. “Oh, Daisy, it’s revolting the way I want to fawn all over him. I’m afraid I’m going to do something dreadfully silly today. Burst into song or something. For God’s sake, don’t let me.”

— Lisa Kleypas

398. “Maybe he’s not college-smart, but he’s smart in a way they can’t teach.”

— Lisa Kleypas

399. “Start behaving like the mature woman you are, and acknowledge the fact that you have flaws. And give the poor devil a chance to prove that he can love you regardless.”

— Lisa Kleypas

400. “It is one of my failings, to love beautiful things so dearly.”

— Lisa Kleypas