Children Quote by Lisa Kleypas

“He noted that she sipped the wine immediately, without the usual ritual of those accustomed to sampling fine vintages... no swirling of the glass…

— Lisa Kleypas

“Victoria Devane," she said aloud. "I'm Victoria." Her lips moved in countless repetitions of the sounds... her name, her real name. It was like…

— Lisa Kleypas

“She had the face of an angel, and the hair of the Devil's handmaiden. The freshly washed locks flowed around her in a waist-length…

— Lisa Kleypas

“She had been expected to learn the subtleties of court life, and while mastery of these arts would have never gained her freedom, they…

— Joseph Brassey

“Louise was an urbanite, she preferred the gut-thrilling sound of an emergency siren slicing through the night to the noise of country birds at…

— Kate Atkinson

“She liked to convey that she was well acquainted with the smartness and the manners of the stylish world, but that she had got…

— Robert Musil

I do not know if she was virtuous, but she was ugly, and with a woman that is half the battle.

— Heinrich Heine

“In the nineteenth century, The Romantics viewed Nature as benign, a glowing reflection of God's grace. Now we know better. Nature is brutal and,…

— Richard Yancey

“She had passed the spring of youth, but her wit prolonged the triumph of its reign, and they mutually assisted the fame of each…

— Ann Radcliffe

To be a woman condemned to a wretched and disgraceful punishment is no impediment to beauty, but it is an insurmountable obstacle to power.…

— Alexandre Dumas

“That as my sister-in-law at Colchester had said, beauty, wit, manners, sense, good humour, good behaviour, education, virtue, piety, or any other qualification, whether…

— Daniel Defoe

“she had always considered that, far from the world of Ealing and its county councillors who over-ate and neighed like stallions, there were bright…

— Ford Madox Ford