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How to Capture a Countess (The Duchess Diaries, #1) QUOTES

How to Capture a Countess (The Duchess Diaries, #1) QUOTES

1 " Men think they like to be challenged. The truth is, they only like to be challenged if they win. "

― Karen Hawkins , How to Capture a Countess (The Duchess Diaries, #1)

2 " No woman worth her salt would listen to a proposal without the word ‘love’ in it. "

― Karen Hawkins , How to Capture a Countess (The Duchess Diaries, #1)

3 " From the Diary of the Duchess of Roxburghe

I vow, I cannot seem to walk past a window without seeing my great-nephew carrying Miss Balfour somewhere. All great romantic poems have such scenes where the hero, in a fit of passion, sweeps the heroine off her feet. Sadly, it appears that Sin’s technique is questionable.
I’m surprised that, with all of his supposed experience with the gentler sex, he doesn’t realize that women do not like to be carried in a way that musses their hair and leaves them with unattractively red faces.

Sadly, yet another conversation I shall have to have with that boy. "

― Karen Hawkins , How to Capture a Countess (The Duchess Diaries, #1)

4 " Men are, if nothing else, predictable. Fortunately for us all, women are not. "

― Karen Hawkins , How to Capture a Countess (The Duchess Diaries, #1)

5 " Pray stop your infernal whispering. You sound like a pack of nuns planning a murder. "

― Karen Hawkins , How to Capture a Countess (The Duchess Diaries, #1)

6 " Margaret,” she told me time and again, “you may be anything you wish, so long as you’re never boring. "

― Karen Hawkins , How to Capture a Countess (The Duchess Diaries, #1)

7 " I’m surprised that, with all of his supposed experience with the gentler sex, he doesn’t realize that women do not like to be carried in a way that musses their hair and leaves them with unattractively red faces. "

― Karen Hawkins , How to Capture a Countess (The Duchess Diaries, #1)

8 " Me mam, bless her soul, tol’ me tha’ was the worst thing ye could be to a man—convenient. "

― Karen Hawkins , How to Capture a Countess (The Duchess Diaries, #1)

9 " Financial standing, a social position beyond what she has now, and a husband to dote upon her every wish. What more could she ask for?"

"Maybe youth. Vigor. Teeth."

"Lord Cameron has his own teeth." Margaret narrowed her eyes at the other candidate. "I'm not so certain about Munro. They seemed somewhat clacky at dinner, so I'm suspicious. "

― Karen Hawkins , How to Capture a Countess (The Duchess Diaries, #1)