151 Quotes About Regency-romance

If he had been an ancient Egyptian, it was her image he'd have painted on the walls of his tomb, so that he could look at her for all eternity. Earl of Lisle, Last Night Scandal

Julia stood for his youth, and the high hopes he had cherished; and although he might no longer yearn to possess her she would remain nostalgically dear to him while life endured.

Chronology of any event worked best in obituaries. It had no place in the world of sentiment, where memories, ideas and assumptions co-existed side by side.

Every inch the terrible uncloaked fairy, at last.

I wonder what it was really like back then. We think it’s all fun and flirting, but there was probably a lot of ugly reality.”“Like the dancing.

Should I rejoice in the inferiority of my fate?" - John Lockwood

And because I’m a widow, you assume I’m ripe to your trickery and silver tongue.”“I’m a Roma. You describe my specialty.

Yet, after all, Jenny thought she had been granted more than she hoped for when she married him. He did love her: differently, but perhaps more enduringly; and he had grown to depend on her. She thought that they would have many years of quiet content: never reaching the heights, but living together in comfort and deepening friendship.

He took her face between his hands, turning it up, and looking down at her for a moment before he kissed her. "I do love you, Jenny," he said gently. "Very much indeed-- you are part of my life. Julia was never that-only a boy's impractical dream.