Timothy Underwood > Quotes

“My dear Miss Bingley,” Elizabeth said her head high, and meeting the gazes all about. “I am eccentric, not unaccomplished.”
― Timothy Underwood, By Virtue, Not Birth: An Elizabeth and Darcy Story

“She had sworn to her father that she would not spend more, but she was not a gentleman who needed to pretend that an angry retort in the midst of a heated argument was a solemn vow before God.”
― Timothy Underwood, The Cost of a Kiss: An Elizabeth and Darcy Story

“assure you, I do not. I would sooner marry my cousin Colonel Fitzwilliam than my Cousin Anne.”
― Timothy Underwood, Overhearings Less to the Purpose

“Even though the way he kissed and held her at night made her shiver, she must always remember that he despised her. He despised her, and her family,”
― Timothy Underwood, The Cost of a Kiss: An Elizabeth and Darcy Story

“The thought of listening to him across the breakfast table every day for the rest of her life sounded worse than starving to death while wandering the howling Yorkshire moors in winter.”
― Timothy Underwood, Escaping Shadows

“Colonel Fitzwilliam rubbed his hands together in an evil manner that made Elizabeth rather concerned for Mr. Wickham’s wellbeing.”
― Timothy Underwood, Overhearings Less to the Purpose

“Oh! Then I would definitely kill him. Arsenic in the coffee.” Anne smiled widely.”
― Timothy Underwood, Overhearings Less to the Purpose

“Though it was difficult finding chances to continue that delightfully begun practice of kissing.”
― Timothy Underwood, By Virtue, Not Birth: An Elizabeth and Darcy Story

“Elizabeth’s father had insulted her in a vile way when she’d come home.”
― Timothy Underwood, The Cost of a Kiss: An Elizabeth and Darcy Story

“Darcy wondered if, if he hoped really hard, that the floor might open up beneath him and his chair, and then ground beneath the house, and maybe he could fall all the way through to China. By the time he returned home from there, he’d be quite ready to face Elizabeth again.”
― Timothy Underwood, Overhearings Less to the Purpose

“am not at present in a mood to give consequence to the choleric complainings of elderly women.”
― Timothy Underwood, Overhearings Less to the Purpose

“She had sworn to her father that she would not spend more, but she was not a gentleman who needed to pretend that an angry retort in the midst of a heated argument was”
― Timothy Underwood, The Cost of a Kiss: An Elizabeth and Darcy Story

“Life can be like the happy novels, like the one we read — not like one of the novels with the ghosts behind the curtains.”
― Timothy Underwood, Overhearings Less to the Purpose

“Papa said to Robert and Darcy, “I’ll be speaking with Elizabeth in private.”
― Timothy Underwood, By Virtue, Not Birth: An Elizabeth and Darcy Story

“No woman worth pleasing would be pleased by a man who refused to see her as anything but far below him, and who saw her family as contemptible, and that if he wanted Elizabeth, he must strive to think better of those she loved.”
― Timothy Underwood, Overhearings Less to the Purpose

“Not you, Darcy — his first name too.” “Ridiculous,” Colonel Fitzwilliam said annoyedly. “No one ever uses his first name.”
― Timothy Underwood, Overhearings Less to the Purpose

“None of that! Do you enjoy finding opportunities to feel guilty?” Did”
― Timothy Underwood, The Trials

“He went still, for a moment jealousy came back to him. His Elizabeth had been very enthralled by Wickham. Darcy shook his head, dispelling the demon. She was in his arms, and the way she asked showed she had an implicit trust now and today that his version of the tale would be true.”
― Timothy Underwood, Overhearings Less to the Purpose

“There you are, Mr. Collins! There you are. Always prompt; always obsequious. That is what I like in a clergyman.”
― Timothy Underwood, Overhearings Less to the Purpose

“How could you ever be happy when Lady Catherine is made to be unhappy? Lady Catherine de Bourgh.”
― Timothy Underwood, Overhearings Less to the Purpose

“she still had a foolish hope left in her heart that Mr. Darcy might see her, and… and marry her.”
― Timothy Underwood, Escaping Shadows

“Not at all, not in the slightest — you know Darcy only dines upon the meat of kid goats of precisely seventeen days old, cooked in—”
― Timothy Underwood, Overhearings Less to the Purpose

“Bingley, you care little for my counsel, so I’ll not say much. Jane Bennet is a damned pretty girl, and her mother sets an excellent table. Still, they have nothing, and those younger sisters will embarrass the family terribly. However, you wouldn’t marry them. Make your own choice like a man — you will regret whatever you do, but” — he gave a significant look towards the door through which his wife had exited — “I prefer to regret mistakes I can blame on myself to those where I trusted another.”
― Timothy Underwood, The Return

“to help it clink around her waist.”
― Timothy Underwood, Overhearings Less to the Purpose

“All true… Lady Catherine is quite insane. So is Anne — Miss de Bourgh, but Miss de Bourgh is mischievous about it.”
― Timothy Underwood, Overhearings Less to the Purpose

“You need help.” She began to unbutton her coat. “You only are unable to admit it. You remind me of someone, someone dear to me.”
― Timothy Underwood, Escaping Shadows

“Lady Catherine insisted all her servants make some gesture of obeisance when in the presence of the better sort.”
― Timothy Underwood, Overhearings Less to the Purpose

“Papa studied her face, then he nodded. “Still in love with Mr. Collins, eh?”
― Timothy Underwood, Escaping Shadows

“But Darcy,” Miss de Bourgh said standing near him. “You often seem above being pleased. Quite generally fastidious and more like my mother”
― Timothy Underwood, Overhearings Less to the Purpose

“However, it would torture me endlessly if I imagined you married to that barely articulate baseborn, fat faced toad of my aunt’s.”
― Timothy Underwood, Escaping Shadows