Attempting Quote by Gail Carriger

“Don’t expect the answers overnight. This isn’t a fortune cookie. - The Duke to Delaine; discussing dating after divorce, Chapter 9”

— Delaine Moore

“It’s a big responsibility, too. Don’t think being a duke is all fun and games. I have to ride out on the estate every…

— Richard Bradford

There is no doubt in my mind at all. The Duke of Edinburgh has had affairs - yes, full-blown affairs, and more than one.

— Sarah Bradford

“Wyndham was a bore, in his humble opinion, but everything he did, every last decision and action - they were for others. It was…

— Julia Quinn

“What does the word “spinster” do that “bachelor” doesn’t do? Why do they carry different associations? These are language acts, people!”

— Leni Zumas

“Belief isn’t required. Finch told me my father scoffed at it all, and he’s just as dead as the other dukes.” “So”

— Sally MacKenzie

“After she married the Duke of York, she immediately transformed his life, bringing him love, understanding, sympathy and support for which he had always…

— William Shawcross

A fully equipped duke costs as much to keep up as two Dreadnoughts, and dukes are just as great a terror - and they…

— Anonymous

“In one conspicuous case, that of royalty, the State does already select the parents on purely political grounds; and in the peerage, though the…

— George Bernard Shaw

“Suspicious princes often promote the last of mankind from a vain persuasion, that those who have no dependence, except on their favour, will have…

— Edward Gibbon

After all, if spinster chaperons required their own spinster chaperons there simply wouldn't be enough to go around.

— Anne Stuart

If Chester had a failing, it was that he believed people were what they thought they were.

— Donald E. Westlake