My love for the Historical Romances is eternal. I mean I love them.
The rakes, Scoundrels, Viscounts, Earls, Lairds and everything else, what's not there to love?
Here is a list of the Best Historical Romances Of All Time. I hope you'll find your next favorite read from the list below!
1. Devil In Winter (Wallflowers #3) By Lisa Kleypas
Some Quotes From Devil In Winter
“Mysteries of attraction could not always be explained through logic. Sometimes the fractures in two separate souls became the very hinges that held them together.”
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“Ah, Evie,” she heard him say softly, “I must have a heart, after all…because right now it aches like the devil.”
“Only your heart?” she asked ingenuously, making him laugh.
He lowered her to the bed, his eyes sparkling wickedly. “Also a few other things,” he conceded. “And as my wife, it’s your duty to ease all my aches.”
“Only your heart?” she asked ingenuously, making him laugh.
He lowered her to the bed, his eyes sparkling wickedly. “Also a few other things,” he conceded. “And as my wife, it’s your duty to ease all my aches.”
2. Dreaming Of You (The Gamblers Of Craven's #2) By Lisa Kleypas
Some Quotes From Dreaming Of You
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“He was so far from the gallant knights in her romantic fantasies ... He was tarnished, scarred, imperfect.
Deliberately he had destroyed any illusions she might have had about him, exposing his mysterious past for the ugly horror that it was. His purpose had been to drive her away. But instead, she felt closer to him as if the truth had bonded them in a new intimacy.”
Deliberately he had destroyed any illusions she might have had about him, exposing his mysterious past for the ugly horror that it was. His purpose had been to drive her away. But instead, she felt closer to him as if the truth had bonded them in a new intimacy.”
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“I think you'll have to marry me, Miss Fielding."
"To save your reputation?"
Derek grinned, bending to kiss the flash of pale throat
revealed by the robe. "Someone has to make a respectable man of me.”
3. Romancing Mister Bridgerton (Bridgertons #4) By Lisa Kleypas
Some Quotes From Romancing Mister Bridgerton
“I love you with everything I am, everything I've been, and everything I hope to be. I love you with my past, and I love you for my future. I love you for the children we'll have and for the years we'll have together. I love you for every one of my smiles and even more, for every one of your smiles.”
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“Do I look like a mess?” she asked.
He nodded. “But you’re my mess,” he whispered.”
He nodded. “But you’re my mess,” he whispered.”
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“I don't want to destroy your dreams.”
“They were never my dreams until I met you ... a dream you gave me.”
“That doesn't mean I can take it away.”
“They were never my dreams until I met you ... a dream you gave me.”
“That doesn't mean I can take it away.”
4. A Kingdom of Dreams (Westmoreland Saga #1)by Judith McNaught
Some Quotes From A Kingdom Of Dreams
“Some women need no jewels to make them sparkle. You are one of them.
-Royce Westmoreland”
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“You are mad!" she snapped, her chest heaving. "And you are a devil!"
"And you, my dear," Royce imperturbably replied, "are a bitch." With that, he
turned to the horrified friar and unhesitatingly announced, "The lady and I wish to be wed.”
"And you, my dear," Royce imperturbably replied, "are a bitch." With that, he
turned to the horrified friar and unhesitatingly announced, "The lady and I wish to be wed.”
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“It was a kingdom of dreams — a place where things would be just the way I wanted them to be.”
5. Born in Sin (Brotherhood of the Sword/MacAllister #3) By Kinley MacGregor
“I want your heart, Sin. ~Callie
It’s battered and useless, but what remains of it is all yours, milady. ~Sin”
It’s battered and useless, but what remains of it is all yours, milady. ~Sin”
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“Callie. ~Sin
Aye. ~Callie
Can you teach me what love is? ~Sin”
Aye. ~Callie
Can you teach me what love is? ~Sin”
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“What did they do to you, to make you withdraw so far into yourself? Sin doesn’t answer. You’ve left me again, haven’t you? I can always tell. Your eyes turn dull, cold. Very well, I shall leave you in peace. But know this: One day I am going to find the heart you have buried away from the world. ~Callie
And what would you do with it if you found it? ~Sin
I would hold it safe and keep it from the hurt that has shriveled it. ~Callie”
And what would you do with it if you found it? ~Sin
I would hold it safe and keep it from the hurt that has shriveled it. ~Callie”
6. Never Seduce a Scot (The Montgomerys and Armstrongs) By Maya Banks
“My lady, I don’t simply care for her. I love her. She is my entire life. Without her, I am nothing. I have nothing.”
“I love you, Eveline," he whispered, though he knew she could not hear him. "Somehow, I'll make you hear me and you'll know that I love you as fiercely as it's possible for a man to love a woman.”
Some Quotes From Devil In Spring
Some Quotes From Never Seduce a Scot
“She may not be a mighty warrior, but one thing she’d learned after observing her mother, was that if anything could fell a warrior, it was a determined woman”
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7. A Week To Be Wicked (Spindle Cove #2) By Tessa Dare
Some Quotes From A Week To Be Wicked
"Don't limit yourself. You can be anything you wish.”
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“This is ideal, you’ll see. We do everything backward. It’s just how we are. We began with an elopement. After that, we made love. Next, we’ll progress to courting. When we’re old and silver-haired, perhaps we’ll finally get around to flirtation. We’ll make fond eyes at each other over our mugs of gruel. We’ll be the envy of couples half our age.”
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“He squeezed her hands. “I love you. I love that you’re clever and loyal and curious and kind. I love that you’re often so fearless and bold and strong—but I also love that you’re occasionally not, because then I can be strong for you. I love that I can tell you anything. Anything at all. And I love that you always have something surprising to say. I love that you call things by their right names. That you aren’t afraid to call a tit a tit, or a cock.”
8. Truce (Neighbor from Hell #4) By R.L. Mathewson
Some Quotes From Truce
“Ah, Robert?”
“Shhhh, not while I’m praying,” he said, momentarily losing his place before he started again, “thank you for letting us survive that trip from hell. Thank you for ignoring my prayers for a quick death when I didn’t think that I’d be able to survive another day of starvation,” he said, making her roll her eyes in annoyance.
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"When was I near death?" he asked in stunned disbelief..."How could you forget all those times that I could barely move? When I struggled to find the will to live(...) Did my struggle for survival mean nothing to you?" he demanded.
"Do you mean those few times when you had a touch of seasickness?" she asked.
"A touch?" he repeated in disbelief. "I nearly died!"
"Because you were forced to miss breakfast a few times?"
"It was hell! Pure hell!"
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"The one woman in the world that he shouldn't want was the one woman he was discovering that he couldn't live without. She was becoming an obsession for him and he was powerless to do anything about it." ~Robert
9. Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake (Love By Numbers #1) By Sarah MacLean
Some Quotes From Nine Rules To Break While Romancing a Rake
“If I am an empress, he is the only man worthy of being my emperor.”
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“Love isn't one-sided and selfish.It is full and generous and life-altering in the best of ways.Love does not destroy, Gabriel.It creates.”
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"I love you. I love your extravagant name and your beautiful face and your brilliant mind and your ridiculous list and your taste for adventure, which I imagine is very likely going to be the actual cause.
10. The Rakehell's Seduction (Seduction #2) By Lauren Smith
Some Quotes From The Rakehell's Seduction
"I am destined to ruin her and break her heart in order to save her"
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"You came into my life like a shooting star. That night we met… it changed me. I wasn’t whole, not until I met you."
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"I'm afraid that I'll have to live every day of the rest of my life without you. For a man in love, it is the most terrifying destiny he can imagine.
11. The Ugly Duchess (Fairy Tales #4) By Eloisa James
Some Quotes From The Ugly Duchess
“My Duchess,” James stated, his eyes sweeping the crowd with the air of a man who has ruled the waves. “She is not a swan, because that would imply she had once been an ugly duckling.”
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“For a moment, she remembered the pain of being called ugly, and then it melted away like soap washing down a drain. She had told herself a hundred times that she could be humiliated only if she allowed it: now she needed to believe it.”
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“The boy in me will always love you," he said, disarming her with a smile. "The man I am doesn't know you yet." And now there was a look in his eyes that she recognized, that resonated deep within her.”
13. Mine Till Midnight (Hathaways #1) By Lisa Kleypas
“...whether he stayed or left, whether they walked the same path or not. They could live on opposite sides of the world, and she would still be his.”
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“She shook her head as she confessed, "I want it so much, I'm afraid to hope."
"Never be afraid to hope," Rohan said gently. "It's the
only way to begin."
"Never be afraid to hope," Rohan said gently. "It's the
only way to begin."
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“You're like someone from a fairy story written in a language I don't even know."
"The prince, I hope."
"No, you're the dragon, a beautiful wicked dragon.”
13. Seduce Me At a Sunrise (Hathaways #2) By Lisa Kleypas
Some Quotes From Seduce Me At Sunrise
“Win," Leo said, "you'll burn the house down, just after it's been rebuilt. Give me the bloody matchbox."
She shook her head resolutely.
Are we starting a new springtime ritual?" Leo demanded. "The annual burning-of-the-manse? Come to your senses, Win.”
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“I love you," she said wretchedly. “And if I were well, no power on earth could keep me away from you. If I were well, I would take you to my bed, and I would show you as much passion as any woman could.”
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“Kev wasn't certain if he was surrendering to Win or to his own passion for her. Only that there was no more holding back. He would take her. And he would give her everything he had, every part of his soul, even the broken pieces.”
14. Devil in Spring (The Ravenels #3) By Lisa Kleypas
Some Quotes From Devil In Spring
“The Ravenels have always been known for their volatile temperaments.”
“Thank you,” Gabriel said sourly. “Now I won’t be surprised when my future offspring emerge with horns and tails.”
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“Good God, she really did walk in circles. A pang of tenderness centered in Gabriel’s chest like an ache. He wanted all her circles to lead back to him.”
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“As she watched while Gabriel sorted through the medicine spoons, she decided to take the bull by the horns. “You probably already know this,” she said bluntly, “but I love you. In fact, I love you so much that I don’t mind your monotonous handsomeness, your prejudice against certain root vegetables, or your strange preoccupation with spoon-feeding me. I’m never going to obey you. But I’m always going to love you.”
15. One Good Earl Deserves a Lover (The Rules of Scoundrels #2) By Sarah MacLean
Some Quotes From One Good Earl Deserves a Lover
“You should know better than to reach into the darkness, Pippa,” he said softly, the sound of her name familiar on his lips. “You never know what you might find.”
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She spoke to her hands. “It’s just that...since we met, I have been rather...well, fascinated by...”
You.
Say it, he willed, not entirely certain what he would do if she did, but willing to put himself to the test.
She took another breath. “By your bones.”
You.
Say it, he willed, not entirely certain what he would do if she did, but willing to put himself to the test.
She took another breath. “By your bones.”
Would she ever say anything expected? “My bones?”
She nodded. “Yes. Well, the muscles and tendons, too. Your forearms. Your thighs. And earlier—while I watched you drink whiskey—by your hands.”
Cross had been propositioned many times in his life. He’d made a career of refusing women’s requests. But he had never been complimented on his bones.
It was the strangest, sexiest confession he’d ever heard.
It was the strangest, sexiest confession he’d ever heard.
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“My whole life . . . two and two has made four.”...
“But now . . . it’s all gone wrong.” She shook her head. “It doesn’t make four anymore. It makes you.”
“But now . . . it’s all gone wrong.” She shook her head. “It doesn’t make four anymore. It makes you.”
So these were some of my best historical reads!
Comment below your favorite Historical Romances and I'll add those to the list too!
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