157 Quotes by Anna Godbersen

Elizabeth had followed her heart, and no one ever regrets that.

Living too much in one’s head can be dangerous.

I know it’s going to sound funny, but I know you’ve been hanging around with that Billie Marsh, so maybe it won’t be strange after all. Would you be my best man – or, I don’t know, my best lady?

It is a truth universally acknowledge that there will always be a gentleman to dance with, except at just the moment when you require one most.

A young lady’s most natural ally is her sister although sometimes our own relatives are as inscrutable to us as an antipodean.

Before her angry impulses got the better of her, she admonished herself that she was born to win and that one did not win by throwing temper tantrums – at least not outside of one’s own home, which could result in vicious, spurious rumors.

It is well known that a man, when wooing a lady to be his wife, must first win over the females she most confides in – her friends, of course, and her sister, if she has one.

Her heart the damned thing had begun to race and she only hoped that the rapid inflation and deflation of her chest wasn’t visible beneath her fitted bodice.

She felt so much aware of her own beauty it seemed inconceivable that everybody else wouldn’t notice the difference too.