Historical Romance Quotes

I said kiss me again.” A sultry smile curved her lips. “Would that be such a difficult task to perform?”Christ almighty, she wanted him to kiss her again. And she was ordering him to do so.

~ Monica Burns

I sincerely pity the poor man you marry. I doubt he’ll have a moment’s peace.

~ Heather King

Alyssa tried to lift her chin. She was going to do the one thing she loved again- something that reminded her of her mother; something dear to her. So what if she felt this undeniable attraction toward the dark-haired man. Correction. Earl.So what, indeed.

~ Nicole Castro

Ah, does my princess now want what I offer?

~ Sai Marie Johnson

I would have asked you to let down your hair turning to regard her with a grin, his teeth a slash of white in his blackened face.But it is not quite long enough anymore.

~ Shelly Thacker

If one plays with fire, one should be prepared to burn, Jane.”“You say that as if I’m in danger from you.”“Maybe you are,” Tobias growled as the scent of her invaded his nostrils...

~ Monica Burns

A fiery little cat you are, Caecelia. Like a lioness in heat, oh how you bloom.

~ Sai Marie Johnson

His tongue tapped his top lip as he cupped her breast in his hand. Tis boidhche --beautiful.

~ Amy Jarecki

Keep the guests company, and mind your asses! Stay out of the hall before my chamber!

~ Sai Marie Johnson

Gideon could not imagine any other young unmarried woman of his acquaintance passing up the opportunity to snare, if not himself, then the Carradice fortune. In any case, the number of women who’d rejected him in any way was gratifyingly small. Yet Miss Prudence Merridew had most unmistakably rejected him. Several times. Wielding that damned lethal reticule like a little Amazon, to emphasize her point.

~ Anne Gracie

Now you also know what it is to be wanted and loved.

~ Julianne Donaldson

Let me have you in the most intimate ofways, let me give you a part of myself that no other man may touch.Make me yours forever.

~ Rachel L. Demeter

Pain is in the mind. And, in my mind, ma chérie … I was withyou.

~ Rachel L. Demeter

The arrogant man probably thought his path to heaven was already assured, and that he acted in accordance to God’s will just by breathing.

~ Maya Banks

If you have found a woman who can stir both body and spirit, sir, do not give her up lightly. Do not. The alternatives can be damnably complicated. [Joseph Warren]

~ Donna Thorland

No matter where she went, God was her family. He was her hope.

~ Tricia Goyer

And there are no words left, try as men may, to describe that little death, that incandescent instant when, transacted with mutual love, there is no difference between sweet submission and exquisite conquest.

~ Isolde Martyn

Under the sanctuary are the catacombs where the dead wait for resurrection. The living do not venture there. The caverns here underneath the Sanctuary are illuminated only by dim shafts of light from the sanctuary. The walls are etched with flowers of frost, but at least I am out of the wind. Dark bays line the hall in front of me, a vast rabbit warren, each hold filled to the brim with the scent of the past.

~ Ned Hayes

Devilment showed in his eyes. “Well, since it is a trial, we should practice so that we can perfect our kisses.”“You need no practice. You are clearly an expert.

~ Vicky Dreiling

Papa had always told Justine that guns had a remarkable capacity to focus the mind. She couldn’t say with any confidence that her actions had cleared the minds of the drunken louts before her, but she’d sharpened their attention. They gaped at her, slack-mouth and stupefied, trying to make sense of what their bleary eyes told them.

~ Vanessa Kelly

Like the magnolia tree, She bends with the wind,Trials and tribulation may weather her, Yet, after the storm her beauty blooms, See her standing there, like steel, With her roots forever buried,Deep in her Southern soil.

~ Nancy B. Brewer

I suppose when you say you slept with him, it was more than just a nap?Lillian shot her a withering glance. Daisy, don’t be a pea wit.

~ Lisa Kleypas

I am afraid of him now. The one I love most in the world.

~ Neil Jordan

Miranda shook her head slowly. 'Good heavens. That's quite an act you put on.'He drew himself up haughtily. 'I beg your pardon.''An act,' Miranda repeated. 'Stand as tall as you like, and frown at me all you wish. I saw you just now. You were feeding cats.''So I was. And do you make something of that?''You,' Miranda said daringly, 'have a kind heart.'He turned away from her, the tails of his greatcoat swirling about him. 'Don't enlarge too much upon the matter. The cats were hungry. I had food. This seemed to be a problem with a ready solution. It's not kindness to solve problems; it's efficiency.''I stand corrected. You have an efficient heart.

~ Courtney Milan

Beatrix wished she were a swooning sort of female. It seemed the only appropriate response to the situation.Unfortunately, no matter how she tried to summon a swoon, her mind remained intractably conscious.

~ Lisa Kleypas

Don't you understand brother? I want to find a love...that will free me from this love...

~ Neil Jordan

Just look at the fellow, standing there like a bloody Greek god. Do you think she chose him because of his intellect?”“I graduated from Cambridge,” Christopher said acidly. “Should I have brought my diploma?

~ Lisa Kleypas

I'm not broken,' he repeated. 'Although at the moment . . . ' This was what came of violating the sentimentality quota. Everything he kept bottled inside him came out. He shut his eyes and pinched the bridge of his nose. 'At the moment,' he muttered numbly, 'I may be coming a bit unraveled.

~ Courtney Milan

You are intelligent, you are diplomatic, you are beautiful, and you are and always will be...[he kisses her]...MINE...

~ Neil Jordan

You have a spine of steel and fire in your eyes, Rosalie. To have such a quality, one must be shaken to the foundation of one’s soul and put back together. I want to know how you emerged from hell made of steel and fire.

~ Moriah Densley

Good night, my lord.” The words were pronounced in her most withering tone.By contrast, he remained quite alarmingly unwithered long after she left.

~ Christina Brooke

But I am a writer, and I deal in words, and I need to have them spelled out for me--precisely.

~ Sydney Jane Baily

Without entering here into a dissertation upon the historical romance, it may be said that in proper hands it has been and should continue to be one of the most valued and valuable expressions of the literary art. To render and maintain it so, however, it is necessary that certain well-defined limits should be set upon the licence which its writers are to enjoy; it is necessary that the work should be honest work; that preparation for it should be made by a sound, painstaking study of the period to be represented, to the end that a true impression may first be formed and then conveyed. Thus, considering how much more far-reaching is the novel than any other form of literature, the good results that must wait upon such endeavours are beyond question. The neglect of them—the distortion of character to suit the romancer's ends, the like distortion of historical facts, the gross anachronisms arising out of a lack of study, have done much to bring the historical romance into disrepute.

~ Rafael Sabatini

Thinking back on the outing to the theatre, she added, ‘I want a man, not a preening peacock!

~ Katherine Givens

A gentleman can’t let a lady sleep in an armchair while he takes his ease in a bed.”“But you are not a gentleman,” she pointed out. “You are the greatest scoundrel in all the land.”He tilted his head to consider that. “All right. You take the chair.

~ Christina Brooke

She narrowed her gaze. “I don’t trust you to keep your eyes closed.”“Smart woman,” he said. “I wouldn’t trust me, either, if I were you.

~ Christina Brooke

Dickens must have first heard his famous The law is an ass quote from a woman. And she was damned right, for all the good it did her.

~ Moriah Densley

Angela turned in her chair. Resting her chin on folded hands, the mirror reflected the look of a girl in love. ‘Oh, what a blessing fate has bestowed on me.

~ Katherine Givens

I only hope I may not be ruined,” she was saying miserably. “I should be obliged to marry you after all, and then I’d likely murder you before the wedding breakfast was over.

~ Christina Brooke

Keep your hands off me.” She spoke viciously, through her teeth, and he caught a glimpse of her deVere ancestry. She was a virago in tiny, fragile, fairy form.

~ Christina Brooke