Quotes from Ashley Gardner

Love of money, he said, was the root of all evil. That was in the New Testament. In Saint Paul's letters to Timothy, if one wanted to be precise.

No, I will drag you to the Thames and throw you in. Let the watermen fish you out. They will if you offer them enough coin." He swallowed. "You are mad enough to do it." "I am. If I discover that you have spoken to her of this matter in any way, I advise you to dress in the suit you most wish to ruin.

will. You convey your exact thoughts, which is a reason people trust you. You never say one thing and think another." "Many would call that rudeness.

men are who they are. We try to make them into something they are not, and then are astonished when they turn out not to be what we wanted. We betray ourselves.

to the girl. "Ha'penny," he muttered. To me, he said, "I know why your nose is so long, Cap'n. You use it to poke into business 'tisn't yours." "True." I touched the

Poetry can be tedious. Too many words to say a simple thing.

What bloody man is that, sir?" I tossed the paper in the grate, though there was no fire on this warm summer day. "Bartholomew, you are quoting from Macbeth, did you know? King Duncan in the first scene, which is ominous. He died rather horribly soon after.

Others rioted simply because it focused their anger and disgust at something other than the tediousness of their lives.

I admired Grenville's ability to brush aside bad encounters and continue serenely with his day, as though no one could possibly upset him. Perhaps he was practiced because he'd been raised to it, but I'd never learned the art of it, and doubted I ever would.

Life is long, my young friend. Do not make it more difficult than it already has to be.

I reflected as I walked that I had come to Berkshire to find peace, and so far, it had eluded me. But perhaps peace was not in a place but within one's self. In that case, I might never find it. There was little at peace inside Gabriel Lacey.

well as street vendors crying their wares. The mob had

They had not understood - they'd not known what a hole you faced when you turn around, and the one you'd thought would always be there was gone.

Louisa had been right about one thing. Many gentlemen took mistresses after they were married. It seemed almost expected. Society marriages often occurred because two families wanted to increase their power or wealth. A poor aristocrat married a rich nabob's daughter; the daughter of an impoverished baron married a wealthy merchant. Even better, wealthy nobility married each other.

The summer day had turned hot, and I was sweating by the time I reached Russel Street and turned again to Covent Garden.

Lie still, it said. If you do not rise, do not move, nothing can hurt you. Simply do nothing, say nothing, be nowhere.

I also thought about Lady Breckenridge. After a heartbreak last year, I was not in the mood to fall in love with another lady, but Lady Breckenridge had demanded nothing of me.

stay. I nearly asked to see her again. Just to talk, I wanted to say. To talk to someone who enjoys listening.

Marriage is not always bliss, but it does not have to ruin one completely." Donata sighed.

Sometimes there is no comfort, only the knowledge that the worst has happened.

When one is lonely, one does foolish things.

You do not rush to obey those who seek to command you. Your independence makes people puzzle over you.

Did I envy a man who could afford to throw away an expensive piece of paper on a short note, or think him a fool?

Marianne had learned to live by her wits, and she took a severe and cynical view of the world.