Sabrina Jeffries Quotes
No disease is more dangerous than a bad husband, for if a woman catches that Pox, she'll languish from it her entire life.
You can never know too much about writing. If you think you know everything, you're not leaving yourself open to learn. . . . The best writers are always learning, exploring, and trying to improve.
Terence: As my old da used to tell me, 'never trust a rich man'. David: Good thing I'm only moderately rich. Terence: Which is why I only moderately distrust you.
I can promise that even having an imperfect one who loves you is better than having none at all.
Advising Mrs. Harris was the least I could do," David said smoothly. "After all, she was the one who brought me and my late wife together.
A teacher had once told them that men were either beasts, gentlemen, or beasts masquerading as gentlemen. Might there be a fourth category — gentlemen masquerading as beasts?
You got off on the wrong foot. I merely watched you shove it into your mouth.
What are you doing here?" she asked. "You forgot something when you left Halstead Hall," he said hoarsely. "What?" Her heart lept into her throat as he strode purposefully toward her. "Me.
A man is what he is and no fancy lodgings or fine clothes will change that (Daniel Brennan)
It's not your instincts that are the problem. It's your tendency to drown them in a bottle.
If you never put your life in someone else's hands, then you can't really expect them to put theirs in yours. In the long run, never trusting anyone is a hard way to live.
The man is always the last to know when Cupid has struck him -Anonymous, Memoirs of a Mistress
Angel? Angels didn't sit on the lap of wicked scoundrels-not unless they were the fallen kind.
And in my private life I prefer not to pass myself off as what I'm not (Daniel Brennan)
Even a ship can become a prison if all you see around you are bars.
The best way to honor the dead was by making their passing useful to the living.
He’d often ignored his uncle’s teachings about gentlemanly behavior, but one stricture he’d always abided by: no man worth his salt took advantage of a woman.
She thinks I'm too...impulsive.""Can't imagine why, " Tristan muttered, "when you do things like ride off into the woods after gentlemen in pursuit of a thief---
I've never done this with a woman like you before. Never wanted to. I only know... I don't want it to end.
Husband-hunting. Always a rousing sport. I suppose you go there dressed to kill.""No, indeed. What good is a dead husband?" She smiled airily. "I go dressed to maim only.
She would put her “naïve American optimism” toward making herself indispensable to him, and she’d win him. Because naïve American optimism beat out English cynicism any day.
Trying to rewrite the past was a child's game, a pointless, ridiculous child's game no one ever won.
Sometimes the way to a man's heart is through his talleywacker.
Clearly she didn't get out into society nearly enough. Her pulse had no taste in men whatsoever.
Terence: As my old da used to tell me, 'never trust a rich man'.David: Good thing I'm only moderately rich.Terence: Which is why I only moderately distrust you.
The man is always the last to know whenCupid has struck him-Anonymous, Memoirs of a Mistress
