Top 40 Loretta Chase Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “The bigger they are, the harder they fall. And the better the world liked seeing them fall.”

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2. “You refuse to listen. Because, like every other man, you can keep only one idea in your head at a time-usully the wrong one.”

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3. “I should like to see you try.”

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4. “He was a man. Men always had lewd thoughts. It was perfectly natural and normal.”

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5. “Life is not an opera. Scenes belong on the stage.”

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6. “Women don’t have a sense of humor. They don’t need one. The Almighty made them as a permanent joke on men. From which one may logically deduce tha the Almighty is a female.”

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7. “You’ve the Devil’s own tongue, and all his arts, I’m sure. You’re like the bad angel, whispering in my ear – and I always listen.”

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8. “She longed to throw something at him. A chair. Herself.”

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9. “The witless destroy what they don’t understand.”

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10. “Masculine pride is an exceedingly precious and fragile thing.”

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11. “Charm of the most insidious kind: humorous, self-deprecating, and disarmingly frank and confiding.”

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12. “Silk and Shadows is something else. Like brilliant. It got under my skin as very, very few books have. It’s still under my skin. Mikhal was haunting.”

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13. “He started to draw away but she wasn’t ready. She held on, and after a heartbeat he slid his hands to her waist and pulled her closer. His kiss grew more fiercely determined, as though he would wipe every recollection of anything remotely resembling kisses from her mind and imprint his, permanently, upon it. And upon her body, where the alien feelings simmered into excitement and happiness and a yearning for more. Strange.”

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14. “The Vizier is a genius, truly, if he can keep peace among three hundred women. I can’t do so with only one.”

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15. “Let me explain something to you, he said. If you want to get something out of a man, dashing out his brains against a lamppost isn’t the way to do it.”

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16. “Jessica swallowed. “I think you had better stick to English.” “But Italian is so moving,” Dain said. “To ho voluto dal primo che ti vedi.” I’ve wanted you from the first moment I saw you. “Mi tormenti ancora.” You’ve tormented me ever since.”

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17. “By gad, is that you, Ainswood? I haven’t seen you in a dog’s age. How’s the gout? Still troubling you?”

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18. “That’s what brings in the customers: the combination of gossip and the intricate detail about the dresses, all related as drama. It has the same effect on women, I’m told, as looking at naked women has on men.”

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19. “I have dealt with the poor, Bathsheba. They need a great deal, but I do not believe they feel any great want for aristocratic females dressed in the latest stare of fashion telling them they are proud, vain, and licentious.”

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20. “I can do one or the other. Lovemaking or thinking. But not both at the same time.”

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21. “Why must women stay quietly? Why must we be little moons, each of us stuck in our little orbit, revolving around a planet that is some man? Why can’t we be other planets? Why must we be moons?”

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22. “We’ve been wed more than a month. Since it appears you mean to stay, I might as well give you leave to call me by my christian name. It is preferable, at any rate, to ’clodpole.”

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23. “Parents must be treated with respect, whether one wants to strangle them or not.”

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24. “Thanks to Mr. Grose’s Lexicon Balatronicum, Olympia knew a buffer nabber was a dog stealer.”

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25. “Miss you,” he said. It was the barest murmur, scarcely a sound.”

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26. “Everybody knew gentlemen could be obtuse, especially when it came to matters of the heart. Everybody knew, as well, that gentlemen needed to believe they were in charge. Therefore, ladies had to learn ways of communicating the obvious without being obvious about it.”

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27. “Gout, I understand, has reformed a great many rogues.”

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28. “Due to not getting pumped regular, females take the oddest fancies, such as imagining they can think.”

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29. “In my dictionary, romance is not maudlin, treacly sentiment. It is a curry, spiced with excitement, and humour, and a healthy dollop of cynicism.”

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30. “I don’t know who had the training of you,” he continued doggedly, “but your morals are shocking. You spent a night in my bed, remember, after a night in a bawdy house. You go about collecting street urchins and letting inebriated vagabonds kiss you, and then you get into brawls in pawnshops. You are probably past all redemption, but I’m going to reform you anyhow. If you behave yourself, perhaps I’ll let you reform me on occasion, but I make no promises.”

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31. “No good would come of trying to make something of a man with a brain like machinery.”

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32. “Surely she’d heard voices like his, so low-pitched as to make every commonplace utterance seem of the deepest intimacy, every cliche a delicious secret.”

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33. “They were perfectly suited. They would speak of books the livelong day and night and bore everyone else but themselves to distraction.”

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34. “We’re of one mind, Grenville and I, and the mind is hers, on account of my being a man and not having one.”

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35. “I’m no good at being good.”

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36. “And so I beat him and beat him until he kissed me. And then I kept on beating him until he did it properly.”

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37. “What would you have done?” Esme demanded. “Screamed for help, of course. But it would never occur to you to call for help. You don’t just think you’re a warrior. You think you’re a whole army.”

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38. “In the real, grown-up world, unicorns were more plentiful than Prince Charmings.”

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39. “At that moment she heard from the room beyond the terrifying noises by means of which primitive man once warned away the creatures skulking near his cave at night. She crept closer to the door and listened. It was true. Mr. Demowery was snoring.”

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40. “By and large the aristocracy was intelligent enough. The problem was that its members had no need to live by their wits. Thus their wits atrophied. If they could not rely upon the sharper instincts and abundant common sense of their servants, the British upper classes would destroy themselves through sheer inertness.”

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41. “Just because I squeezed my gigantic bottom into men’s trousers, you needn’t assume my brains have shrunk to masculine size.”

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42. “Hypocrisy seemed to be the fashionable equivalent of propriety, discretion indistinguishable from morality, and the.”

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43. “You needn’t consult me about redecorating. I know no female can live two days in a house and leave anything as it was. I shall be much astonished if I can find my way about when I return.”

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44. “What have you done to my dairy?” he said. “What happened to the Black Hole of Calcutta I was saving for the setting of the Gothic horror play I was going to write one of these days? Where are all my beautiful spiders? Where are my gloomy corners, where ghoulies might lurk? What have you done with the six inches of dirt on the floor? That was good dirt. I was saving it.”

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45. “I am not in love with you,” she said. “It is an infatuation. I have heard of such derangements happening to elderly spinsters.”

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46. “Maybe the brutal bedding had destroyed a part of her brain.”

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47. “If you want respect, you must take your medicine like a brave aristocrat,” he said. “Think of the French nobles who walked to the guillotine, double chins aloft.”

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48. “Gad, men are such jackasses,” the dowager grumbled. “We spend half our lives trying to save the damned idiots from themselves.”

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