Wade H. Mann > Quotes

“Are you asserting, sir, that since you are a clergyman, you are empowered to gossip like a fishwife about your social superiors?”
― Wade H. Mann, Eavesdroppers Never Hear: A Pride and Prejudice Variation

“Much to the rest of the company’s surprise, Mary eventually laughed gaily. “This is astonishing, Mr Darcy. I believe you jumped out of that grave you dug yourself in a single bound. Impressive!”
― Wade H. Mann, Eavesdroppers Never Hear: A Pride and Prejudice Variation

“I shall endeavour to find more: lunkhead, chowderhead, bacon-brain, addlepate, and so forth.” “Those are all just synonyms for man,” he said with a look of faux innocence”
― Wade H. Mann, Eavesdroppers Never Hear: A Pride and Prejudice Variation

“Suddenly, your decisions had consequences beyond yourself. I have a new appreciation for that. It makes you something more than just another rich blunderbuss.”
― Wade H. Mann, Eavesdroppers Never Hear: A Pride and Prejudice Variation

“He chuckled. “You are the first woman to call me a blunderbuss to my face. I like it and hope you will continue”
― Wade H. Mann, Eavesdroppers Never Hear: A Pride and Prejudice Variation

“All I ask is that you appear with your sisters to be introduced—but in Miss Elizabeth’s gown, with your hair fixed like hers, without your spectacles since you obviously do not need them in company. Since my cousin knows nothing save the second-eldest sister is handsome, we will challenge him to identify which sister is the handsome one who is not blond.”
― Wade H. Mann, Eavesdroppers Never Hear: A Pride and Prejudice Variation

“Jane replied in a voice like two stones rubbing together. “Do not make yourself uneasy, madam. Since our relatives very materially lessen our chances of marrying men of any consideration in the world… we find it best to return to our own sphere.”
― Wade H. Mann, Eavesdroppers Never Hear: A Pride and Prejudice Variation

“He felt as though he had to commit his troops to battle with no intelligence but three scouts, all drunk, delivering contradictory reports.”
― Wade H. Mann, A Most Excellent Understanding: A Pride and Prejudice Variation

“in the end, she had fulfilled her hopes. Her daughter would indeed be married to one of the richest men in England. Of course, it was the wrong man, the wrong daughter, the wrong scheme, the wrong time, and the wrong circumstances”
― Wade H. Mann, A Most Excellent Understanding: A Pride and Prejudice Variation

“Rosings, Caroline Bingley was learning the difficult lesson that it was very hard to glide like a swan when you were being dragged out of the parlour by a cavalryman who thought shooting people was a better than average solution to many of life’s little inconveniences.”
― Wade H. Mann, A Most Excellent Understanding: A Pride and Prejudice Variation

“Miss Bennet, it is the greatest of possible pleasures to see you aga–” “You cannot be serious!” Jane retorted.”
― Wade H. Mann, A Most Excellent Understanding: A Pride and Prejudice Variation

“Perhaps growing up is mostly deciding you will behave as though you are grown with the hope that others will go along.”
― Wade H. Mann, A Most Excellent Understanding: A Pride and Prejudice Variation

“Her youngest sister is fifteen and practically feral.”
― Wade H. Mann, A Most Excellent Understanding: A Pride and Prejudice Variation

“He also administered a vile tasting concoction that lacked any medicinal properties whatsoever, but Darcy, like most men, associated vile taste with effectiveness and could not be convinced otherwise.”
― Wade H. Mann, A Most Excellent Understanding: A Pride and Prejudice Variation

“Lizzy… I am too tired to drag it out of you, so just tell me what has given you a case of the blue devils.”
― Wade H. Mann, Eavesdroppers Never Hear: A Pride and Prejudice Variation