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Her Royal Spyness (Her Royal Spyness Mysteries, #1) QUOTES

Her Royal Spyness (Her Royal Spyness Mysteries, #1) QUOTES

1 " So none of the young men we encountered during our season gave you hot pants for them?
Belinda! Your language.
I've been mingling with Americans. Such fun. So Naughty. "

― Rhys Bowen , Her Royal Spyness (Her Royal Spyness Mysteries, #1)

2 " When I venture to point out the unfairness of this, I am reminded of the second item on my list. Apparently the only acceptable destiny for a young female mem​b​er of the house of Windsor is to marry into another of the royal houses that still seem to litter Europe, even though there are precious few reigning monarchs these days. it seems that even a very minor Windsor like myself is a desirable commodity for those wishing a tenuous alliance with Britain at this unsettled time. I am constantly being reminded that is is my duty to make a good match with some half-lunatic, buck-toothed, chinless, spinele​s​s​​​, and utterly awful European royal, thus cementing ties with a potential enemy. My cousin Alex did this, poor thing. I have learned from her tragic example. "

― Rhys Bowen , Her Royal Spyness (Her Royal Spyness Mysteries, #1)

3 " Its not exactly the height of fashion, darling. You can get away with it, of course, but if I were to be seen in it at Cowes, bang would go my reputation."
I thought privately that her reputation had probably gone bang already. "

― Rhys Bowen , Her Royal Spyness (Her Royal Spyness Mysteries, #1)

4 " They don't hang dukes, darling. He'd be let off by reason of insanity. Everyone knows the upper classes are batty. "

― Rhys Bowen , Her Royal Spyness (Her Royal Spyness Mysteries, #1)

5 " The words hot, lot, and got were not apart of a ladies vocabulary. "

― Rhys Bowen , Her Royal Spyness (Her Royal Spyness Mysteries, #1)

6 " Is he one of us, or strictly NOCD? (Which, in case you don't know is shorthand for 'Not our class, dear'.) "

― Rhys Bowen , Her Royal Spyness (Her Royal Spyness Mysteries, #1)

7 " Ah, but it was your great-grandmother who went around subjugating half the world. Empress of all I survey, and all that. You must have that quality somewhere in your makeup."

"I've never had a change to subjugate anybody yet, so I can't really say," I confessed. "

― Rhys Bowen , Her Royal Spyness (Her Royal Spyness Mysteries, #1)

8 " There's nothing wrong with hunting, in its place. But there are many preferable occupations when in the presence of a young woman. "

― Rhys Bowen , Her Royal Spyness (Her Royal Spyness Mysteries, #1)

9 " There is nothing worse than speeches about someone you don’t know, made by someone you don’t know. "

― Rhys Bowen , Her Royal Spyness (Her Royal Spyness Mysteries, #1)

10 " Castle Rannoch is not the most delightful spot at the best of times. It lies beneath an impressive black crag, at the head of a black loch, protected from the worst of gales by a stand of dark and gloomy pine forest. Even the poet Wordsworth, invited here during his ramblings, could find nothing to say about it, except for a couplet scribbled on a sheet of paper found in the wastepaper basket. "

― Rhys Bowen , Her Royal Spyness (Her Royal Spyness Mysteries, #1)

11 " We crept to the phone and dialed 999, "

― Rhys Bowen , Her Royal Spyness (Her Royal Spyness Mysteries, #1)

12 " Belinda laughed. “Darling, if only true virgins were allowed a white wedding, church organists would die of starvation. "

― Rhys Bowen , Her Royal Spyness (Her Royal Spyness Mysteries, #1)

13 " Next thing we know you’ll be teaching Podge to say ‘mirror’ instead of ‘looking glass’ and ‘serviette’ instead of ‘napkin. "

― Rhys Bowen , Her Royal Spyness (Her Royal Spyness Mysteries, #1)

14 " And this was someone who only yesterday had proposed marriage to me. Like everything else at the moment, it didn’t add up. "

― Rhys Bowen , Her Royal Spyness (Her Royal Spyness Mysteries, #1)

15 " I am Victoria Georgiana Charlotte Eugenie, daughter of the Duke of Glen Garry and Rannoch—known to my friends as Georgie. My grandmother was the least attractive of Queen Victoria’s daughters, who consequently never managed to snare a Romanov or a Kaiser, for which I am truly grateful and I expect she was too. "

― Rhys Bowen , Her Royal Spyness (Her Royal Spyness Mysteries, #1)

16 " My father in turn had done his duty and married the daughter of a frightfully correct English earl. She gave birth to my brother, looked around at her utterly bleak Highland surroundings, and promptly died. "

― Rhys Bowen , Her Royal Spyness (Her Royal Spyness Mysteries, #1)

17 " When he learned that he’d lost what remained of his fortune, he went up onto the moors and shot himself with his grouse gun, although how he managed to do it has always been the object of speculation, my father never having been a particularly good shot. "

― Rhys Bowen , Her Royal Spyness (Her Royal Spyness Mysteries, #1)