Jessie Lewis > Quotes

“Upon my word!” Mrs Sinclair exclaimed. “At an early age, I believed my father was heir to the throne, and my lap dog was a unicorn. There comes a point in most people’s lives when one learns to discern fact from invention.”
― Jessie Lewis, Mistaken

“I never saw her so angry, and I was there the day Sir Lewis gambled away her underclothes in a card game.”
― Jessie Lewis, Mistaken

“I live for nothing if not to vex the vexatious.”
― Jessie Lewis, Mistaken

“Hostages were exchanged at church on Christmas Day. Mr Darcy retrieved his cousin and her companion from Sir William’s carriage and sat with them at the rear of the nave, as far away from both the Lucases and the Bennets as the modest building permitted.”
― Jessie Lewis, Epiphany

“He knew not why Anne had expressed surprise over his always being angry about things when she gave him such constant reason to be vexed.”
― Jessie Lewis, Epiphany

“His handsomeness, always present but never before at the forefront of her consciousness, asserted itself in her mind with new and startling significance.”
― Jessie Lewis, Unfounded

“Purpose you call it? I see no purpose in wasting hours of one’s time attending to the repeated complaints of a peevish, insensible woman.” “Perhaps you are right, but I hope not, for it would paint a very sorry picture of my existence.”
― Jessie Lewis, Fallen

“Thank heavens they have gone! A stranger family I have never come across in my life,” cried Mrs Bennet. “Imagine if you had married Mr Collins, Lizzy? You would have had to put up with both of them as your neighbours whenever they were at Rosings. What a lucky escape!”
― Jessie Lewis, Epiphany

“He looked unnervingly handsome with the hair at his temples being tousled by the breeze and his inscrutable dark eyes piercing her from beneath the brim of his hat.”
― Jessie Lewis, Enamoured

“He had never known a woman who suited angry sarcasm so well,”
― Jessie Lewis, Speechless

“Clarabelle admitted that she knew him a little, colouring slightly as she did—and well she might!”
― Jessie Lewis, Unfounded

“Well,” exclaimed Mrs Bennet expressively, “all I can say is, thank goodness she is not staying under my roof! Have you ever met such a peevish, complaining woman?”
― Jessie Lewis, Epiphany

“What must that have been like? I dread to think!” “That explains why you do it so infrequently.”
― Jessie Lewis, Epiphany

“Mayhap he simply could not bring himself to marry a woman as cunning and unfeeling as Miss Bingley—”
― Jessie Lewis, Fallen

“That is a stupid scheme. The man spent almost half an hour deciding whether or not he wanted a cup of coffee at breakfast this morning. You could be grey-haired and barren by the time he decides to take a wife. But I suppose if that is your wish, I must play along.”
― Jessie Lewis, Epiphany

“You could lead a horse to water, but her brother would always be an incurable idiot.”
― Jessie Lewis, Mistaken

“As unpardonable rudeness went, Miss de Bourgh was an expert”
― Jessie Lewis, Epiphany

“Elizabeth often wondered which had developed first: her mother’s nervous disposition or her father’s sarcastic humour,”
― Jessie Lewis, Fallen

“Untwist your bollocks, man. Something came up at the barracks, and I could not get away.”
― Jessie Lewis, The Cad, the Couch, and the Cut Direct: A Pride and Prejudice Variation

“The only thing worse than an excessively lively ball is an excessively dull one.”
― Jessie Lewis, Epiphany

“I am sorry, my girl. Anybody who is able to induce your mother to admit that complaining is a dreadful habit is a more accomplished person than I have ever met. I am afraid Miss de Bourgh has quite the lead on you at the moment.”
― Jessie Lewis, Epiphany

“But it was simply unthinkable that Miss Elizabeth Bennet should be mistress of Pemberley! Over her dead body would she allow the master to ruin himself over such a woman, from such a family!”
― Jessie Lewis, Unfounded

“He was preposterously handsome. The thought—and the accompanying flurry of nerves it stirred up in her stomach—came upon Elizabeth so unexpectedly, she almost laughed aloud.”
― Jessie Lewis, Enamoured

“Whatever had ailed her that long had not killed her yet, and he sincerely doubted thirty miles of good road would have finished her off.”
― Jessie Lewis, Epiphany

“Pemberley! Over her dead body would she allow the master to ruin himself over such a woman, from such a family!”
― Jessie Lewis, Unfounded

“It is no trouble,” Miss de Bourgh replied, once again demonstrating that her understanding of the word did not extend beyond any imposition to her own person.”
― Jessie Lewis, Epiphany

“Am I pardoned?” “A girl could pardon an awful lot for a kiss like that.”
― Jessie Lewis, Unfounded

“It means—I comprehend that your affections have found a new home, and you no longer wish to call on me.”
― Jessie Lewis, The Cad, the Couch, and the Cut Direct: A Pride and Prejudice Variation

“As a person, she is more comparable to a lemon. She adds flavour to other things but is sour and horrid on her own.”
― Jessie Lewis, Mistaken

“Fitzwilliam merely fancied that she had little interest in mollycoddling fainter hearts than her own.”
― Jessie Lewis, The Cad, the Couch, and the Cut Direct: A Pride and Prejudice Variation