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First released on December 25, 2020, Bridgerton is a historical romance television series based on Julia Quinn's bestselling books.

The series follows the individual and collective stories of the wealthy Bridgerton family as they navigate the arduous social life in London. The first two seasons center on the stories of the first son and daughter, Daphne and Anthony, as they try to find love amidst the town's drama, scandals, and gossip-mongering.

Bridgerton is a series that properly shows the power of family, friendships, and love. The kids and the parents will surely enjoy reading quotes that show the importance of family and relationships.

The Bridgerton series is famous for its relatable characters and inspirational monologues. Here are some inspirational Bridgerton quotes.

“You cannot show someone your best without having them see your worst.”

- Edmund Bridgerton, Season 2, 'A Bee In Your Bonnet'.

"You can choose to be happy."

- Daphne Bridgerton, Season 2, 'The Choice'.

“Having a nice face and pleasant hair isn’t an accomplishment. Do you know what is an accomplishment? Attending university!”

- Eloise Bridgerton, Season 1, 'Shock And Delight'.

“I know we could not be any more different, but there is one thing we do share, the certainty that you will make your own way in this world.”

- Daphne Bridgerton, Season 1, 'The Duke And I'.

"Reading, as I always do"

- Eloise Bridgerton, Season 2 'Capital R Rake'.

"But you must promise me that when you step into the light you will be worthy of the attention you command."

- Lady Danbury, Season 1, 'Shock And Delight'.

“Why must our options be to squawk and settle or to never leave the nest? What if I want to fly?”

- Eloise Bridgerton, Season 1, 'An Affair Of Honour'.

“We should both aspire to be like her. Unmarried and earning her own money.”

- Eloise Bridgerton, Season 1, 'After The Rain'.

“If you desire the sun and the moon, all you have to do is go out and shoot at the sky. Some of us cannot.”

- Eloise Bridgerton, Season 1, ‘Shock And Delight’.

“We chose to love each other, every single day. It is a choice, dearest. One that is never too late to make.”

- Violet Bridgerton, Season 1, ‘Oceans Apart’.

“Just because something is not perfect, does not make it any less worthy of love.”

- Daphne Bridgerton, Season 1, ‘After The Rain’.

"I have faced a thousand tomorrows but they have all been leading to this one."

- Edwina Sharma, Season 2, 'The Choice'.

“This is the first chapter of a happy story.”

- Kate Sharma, Season 2, 'Capital R Rake'.

“The one thing a lady would never do is wear something she knows makes her look ugly.”

- Madame Delacroix, Season 2, ‘The Choice’.

"It is a very powerful thing to meet someone and feel that you know them."

- Mary Sharma, Season 2, 'An Unthinkable Fate'.

“Things may seem bleak now, brother. But if I am learning anything from my art studies, it's that it is almost always a matter of perspective.”

- Benedict Bridgerton, Season 2, ‘Harmony’.

“Your dreams are grander than you let on, Pen.”

- Colin Bridgerton, Season 2, ‘The Choice'.

"It grieves me to think you do not believe you deserve all of the love in the world."

- Mary Sharma, Season 2, ‘The Viscount Who Loved Me’.

"Be unafraid to follow your heart after doing the exact opposite for far too long."

- Edwina Sharma, Season 2, 'The Viscount Who Loved Me'.

"Poetry is the opposite, brother. It is the art of revealing precious truth with words."

- Benedict Bridgerton, Season 2,'Off To The Races'.

"The same cannot be said of true love, of course. It changes. It forgets. It forces you to remember who you once were. And it forces you to choose how you will live with it, again and again."

- Queen Charlotte, Season 2, Episode 6: ‘The Choice’.

"But love moves swiftly, does it not?"

- Edwina Sharma, Season 2, 'An Unthinkable Fate'.

"My darling girl... No matter what, you will always be a diamond to me."

- Violet Bridgerton, Season 2, 'Capital R Rake'.

"There is nothing quite like the sweet-scented smell of success."

- Lady Whistledown, Season 2, 'Capital R Rake'.

“You wish to follow your heart, and I wish to nurture my mind. Let us leave it there.”

- Eloise Bridgerton, Season 1, 'Art Of The Swoon'.

"Suppose I want a different life, that I truly believe I am quite capable of something more, even when I am not allowed to have anything else."

- Eloise Bridgerton, Season 1, 'Shock And Delight'.

"You owed me nothing. You never had to earn your place in this family. I loved you from the day I met you. Oh, love is not something that is ever owed."

- Mary Sharma, Season 2, 'The Viscount Who Loved Me'.

“When you are invisible, you have all the amusement you want without any of the expectations popularity brings. It frees you.”

- Penelope Featherington, Season 2, ‘Capital R Rake’.

"It is time for you to shine all on your own."

- Edwina Sharma, Season 2, 'The Viscount Who Loved Me'.

"My purpose shall set me free."

- Penelope Featherington, Season 2, ‘The Choice'.

“We will all need to find love one day. Indeed, a love as pure as what Mama and Papa once shared, if we are so fortunate.”

- Daphne Bridgerton, Season 1, 'Diamond Of The First Water'.

"I have left the past behind. You should do the same."

- Marina Thompson, Season 2, 'Victory'.

"It has been said that silence can wield more power than words. No one knows better than me."

- Penelope Featherington, Season 2, 'The Viscount Who Loved Me'.

"All is fair in love and war."

- Lady Whistledown, Season 1, 'Swish'.

"I sharpened my wit, my wardrobe, and my eye, and I made myself the most terrifying creature in any room I entered."

- Lady Danbury, Season 1, 'Shock And Delight'.

"Pride, Your Grace... It will cost you everything and leave you with nothing."

- Lady Danbury, Season 1 'After The Rain'.

"Rumour can oftentimes be a great hardship to endure."

- Queen Charlotte, Season 2, 'Off To The Races'.

"You view your youth and naivete as a hindrance, but it has shielded you in many ways."

- Kate Sharma, Season 2, 'The Choice'.

"Anthony: Ladies do not hunt.

Kate: Do not, or are not allowed to?"

- Season 2, 'Victory'.

"Though between you and I, I think you will find there is no greater pleasure than enjoying your home alone with your family."

- Daphne Bridgerton, Season 2, 'Victory'.

"I myself am fortunate to have found a love of literature but also of learning as well."

- Edwina Sharma, Season 2, 'A Bee In Your Bonnet'.

"I may not know who I am, but at least I know I am kinder-hearted than you."

- Edwina Sharma, Season 2, 'Harmony'.

"You deserve everything your heart desires.”

- Simon Basset, Season 1, 'An Affair Of Honour'.

"You are a Bridgerton. There is nothing you cannot do."

- Violet Bridgerton, Season 1, 'After The Rain'.

"A man who knows what he wants is most admirable."

- Edwina Sharma, Season 1, 'Capital R Rake'.

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The Bridgerton script is full of declarations of love, such as the iconic line, savage responses, and funny, relatable lines. Here are some of the best Bridgerton quotes one can find.

"To meet a beautiful woman is one thing, but to find a best friend in the most beautiful of women is something entirely apart.”

- Simon Basset, Season 1, 'The Duke And I'.

“I know I am imperfect, but I will humble myself before you because I cannot imagine myself without you.”

- Anthony Bridgerton, Season 2, ‘The Viscount Who Loved Me’.

"I do not need feeling. What I need is what I have, and that is a list. Tolerable, dutiful, suitable enough hips for childbearing, and at least half a brain."

- Anthony Bridgerton, Season 2, 'Capital R Rake'.

"If anyone knows how this works, it is your eldest brother."

- Anthony Bridgerton, Season 1, 'Diamond Of The First Water'.

"My Patience has limits."

- Queen Charlotte, Season 1 'Oceans Apart'.

“Eloise: Sister… I suppose I should thank you.

Daphne: Whatever for?

Eloise: For being so perfect… so I do not have to be.”

- Season 1, 'After The Rain'.

"It is maddening, how much you consume my very being."

- Anthony Bridgerton, Season 2, ‘Harmony’.

"Your mother would weep to know her dearest friend was a stranger to her son."

- Lady Danbury, Season 1, 'Shock And Delight'.

“Was I truly this blind? Were they always this obvious?”

- Edwina Sharma, Season 2, ‘Harmony’.

"All I find myself thinking about, all I find myself being able to breathe for... is you."

- Anthony Bridgerton, Season 2, ‘Harmony’.

“Flawless, my dear.”

- Queen Charlotte, Season 1, 'Diamond Of The First Water'.

“It is your dream to be a mother, is it not? To have a household full of love and laughter, like the one you have known all your life? You deserve nothing less."

- Simon Basset, Season 1, 'An Affair Of Honour'.

"Nothing less for a true love match."

- Queen Charlotte, Season 2, 'An Unthinkable Fate'.

"Do not blame her. She is but an innocent girl."

- Lady Featherington, Season 2, 'Victory'.

"Rare is the man whose love remains true when the consequences of lovemaking are brought to his attention."

- Lady Featherington, Season 1, 'Art Of The Swoon'.

“I was prepared to die on that dueling field rather than marry you and take your dream away. I would have died for you.”

- Simon Basset, Season 1, 'Swish'.

“I love all of you. Even the parts that you believe are too dark and too shameful. Every scar. Every flaw. Every imperfection. I love you.”

- Daphne Bridgerton, Season 1, 'After The Rain'.

“You are Pen. You do not count. You are my friend.”

- Colin Bridgerton, Season 2, ‘Harmony’.

"I shall always be the woman you may love in darkness but never in the light of day."

- Sienna Rosso, Season 1, 'Art Of The Swoon'.

"The ones we love have the power to inflict the greatest scars."

- Lady Whistledown, Season 1 'Swish'.

“We are not all guaranteed a fairy tale ending.”

- Marina Thompson, Season 1, ‘Shock And Delight'.

“The sister. She's rather thorny, I take it?”

- Benedict Bridgerton, Season 2 ‘Off To The Races’.

"I do not know which pains me more. Your betrayal or your pity."

- Edwina Sharma, Season 2, ‘The Choice’.

“I am your family now. We shall make our own family, you and me.”

- Colin Bridgerton, Season 1, 'Swish'.

“Simon: Yes, that is what happens.

Daphne: When one is angry.

Simon: When one burns for someone who does not feel the same!”

- Season 1, 'The Duke And I'.

“If anyone shall reveal the circumstances of this match, it is I.”

- Lady Whistledown, Season 1, ‘Diamond Of The First Water’.

"If I were truly courting you, I would not need flowers, only five minutes alone with you in a drawing room.”

- Simon Basset Season 1, 'Shock And Delight'.

“You are wise… or perhaps unusually lucky to understand friendship to be the best possible foundation a marriage can have.”

- Queen Charlotte, Season 1, 'The Duke And I'.

"You have no idea what it is to be a woman… what it might feel like to have one’s entire life reduced to a single moment."

- Daphne Bridgerton, Season 1, 'Diamond Of The First Water'.

"Love changes nothing."

- Simon Basset, Season 1, 'An Affair Of Honour'.

“Oh, is this not lovely? All of us together again.”

- Violet Bridgerton, Season 1, 'Oceans Apart'.

“Edmund was the air that I breathed, and now there is no air.”

- Violet Bridgerton, Season 2, ‘A Bee In Your Bonnet’.

“Is she calling me wooden?”

- Colin Bridgerton, Season 2, 'Victory'.

"We all know the great lengths a young lady will go in pursuit of a proposal."

- Lady Whistledown, Season 2, 'A Bee In Your Bonnet'.

"Together with my husband we will chart the best course."

- Edwina Sharma, Season 2, 'Capital R Rake'.

"First, a woman takes her wedding vows, then we gamblers take her virtue."

- Lady Trowbridge, Season 1, 'Oceans Apart'.

“You are the bane of my existence and the object of all my desires.”

- Anthony Bridgerton, Season 2, 'An Unthinkable Fate'.

“I cannot stop thinking of you. From the mornings you ease, to the evenings you quiet, to the dreams you inhabit, my thoughts of you never end.”

- Simon Basset, Season 1, 'The Duke And I'.

“Her heart is no matter, as long as her hand remains free.” 

- Queen Charlotte, Season 1, 'Art Of The Swoon'.

"I burn for you."

- Daphne Bridgerton, Season 1, 'The Duke And I'.

"If there is truly to be a proposal before the week is out, Anthony will need all the help he can get."

- Daphne Bridgerton, Season 2, 'Victory'.

“And you must know that I will do everything in my power to ensure your happiness.”

- Kate Sharma, Season 2, ‘The Choice’.

"My honour is not for sale."

- Will Mondrich, Season 1, 'Oceans Apart'.

“I presume she’ll deem us to be what we are. Me, unavailable. You… desirable.”

- Simon Basset, Season 1, 'Diamond Of The First Water'.

"The world is not exactly welcoming to an unmarried woman. There seems to be no place in society for us, except at the edge of things."

- Kate Sharma, Season 2, 'A Bee In Your Bonnet'.

"For it is often the highest risk that carries the greatest reward."

- Lady Whistledown, Season 1, 'Oceans Apart'.

"I need not be paid to marry Daphne. It is frankly an insulting custom in my judgement."

- Simon Basset, Season 1, 'The Duke And I'.

"The Hastings line will die with me."

- Simon Basset, Season 1, 'Shock And Delight'.

"You may think me a villain but I did what I thought I must."

- Marina Thompson, Season 1, 'Oceans Apart'.

Many fans would love to be as cool as Eloise or as smart as Lady Danbury. Here are some of the coolest Bridgerton quotes.

"For we all know what the queen despises more than anything... being wrong."

- Lady Whistledown, Season 1, 'Diamond Of The First Water'.

"You have no idea what it is like to be in a room with someone you cannot live without and yet still feel as though you are oceans apart."

- Henry Granville, Season 1, 'Oceans Apart'.

"We do not have the luxury of choice. We cannot escape our roles."

- Anthony Bridgerton, Season 2, ‘The Choice’.

"My name is Lady Whistledown. You do not know me, and rest assured you never shall."

- Season 1, 'Diamond Of The First Water'.

“Yes, I know. You are not the marrying type. Yet have you considered you are not the type women wish to marry?”

- Daphne Bridgerton, Season 1, ‘An Affair Of Honour’.

“As we know, the brighter a lady shines, the faster she may burn.”

- Lady Whistledown, Season 1, 'Diamond Of The First Water'.

“Should we not value a woman instead for her candor, her character, her true accomplishments?”

- Lady Whistledown, Season 2, 'Capital R Rake'.

"And what a suspicious illness you came down with. It seems to have manifested as a walking spittle factory with very large teeth."

- Colin Bridgerton, Season 1, 'An Affair Of Honour'.

"The wall even affords me the chance to hear what the footmen say in secret."

- Penelope Featherington, Season 2, 'Capital R Rake'.

"If this is to work, we must appear madly in love."

- Simon Basset, Season 1, 'Diamond Of The First Water'.

“Next time you compliment a woman, at least try not to insult her entire sex in the process.”

- Eloise Bridgerton, Season 2, ‘Victory’.

"We do have family traditions, do we not?"

- Simon Basset, Season 1, 'After The Rain'.

“There are advantages to being the second-born. Heirs have the responsibility. Second sons have the fun.”

- Henry Granville, Season 1, 'An Affair Of Honour'.

"This author may traffic in chatter and speculation, dear reader, but misinformation? Never."

- Lady Whistledown, Season 2, 'Harmony'.

"You must know the real work begins now."

- Lady Danbury, Season 1, 'Capital R Rake'.

"Seperate Bedrooms may be tolerated. Seperate households will not be suffered."

- Simon Basset, Season 1, 'Oceans Apart'.

"You do not deserve to breathe the same air as her."

- Simon basset, Season 1, 'Shock And Delight'.

"Every rose does have its thorn, after all."

- Anthony Bridgerton, Season 1, 'Off To The Races'.

"You cannot be here. This is my place of refuge."

- Kate Sharma, Season 2, 'The Choice'.

"No. I will look like every other young lady, except less graceful and more bad-tempered.”

- Eloise Bridgerton, Season 1, 'Swish'.

“Am I to believe you truly long for sweet pickles and sauerkraut?”

- Queen Charlotte, Season 1, 'The Duke And I'.

"Pride is a sin, Your Grace."

- Daphne Bridgerton, Season 1, 'Art Of The Swoon'.

"You have to be more precise. A great deal goes on in a mind as quick as mine.”

- Simon Basset, Season 1, 'Shock And Delight'.

“Nigel: Marry me, Miss Bridgerton.

Simon: Now, as far as proposals go, that may be the least romantic of all.”

- Season 1, Episode 1 'Diamond Of The First Water'.

"Welcome to my den of iniquity."

- Lady Danbury, Season 1, 'Oceans Apart'.

"I despise English tea."

- Kate Sharma, Season 1, ‘Capital R Rake’.

“It is not a man’s appearance or title that will woo you. It is his mind and spirit that will court yours.”

- Kate Sharma, Season 2, ‘Off To The Races’.

"No particular reason. Business in London. But then I met this impertinent young lady with a right hook like an East End prizefighter."

- Simon Basset, Season 1, 'Swish'.

"But Miss Bridgerton thought me presumptuous, arrogant , insecure." -

- Simon Basset, Season 1, 'The Duke And I'.

“Have you found a wife yet? Or are you planning on offending every young girl until there are none left?"

- Benedict Bridgerton, Season 2 ‘A Bee In Your Bonnet’.

"Am I honestly to believe you do not already know my name?"

- Simon Basset, Season 1, 'Diamond Of The First Water'.

“So you can either be a duchess’s friend or her enemy. It is entirely up to you.”

- Daphne Bridgerton, Season 1, 'The Duke And I'.

"Apathy is a blight the monarchy simply cannot endure."

- Queen Charlotte, Season 2 'Capital R Rake'.

"I look like a prize calf trussed up for auction."

- Eloise Bridgerton, Season 2, 'Capital R Rake'.

“Make way! Must you all act like sheep flocking to the trough?”

- Queen Charlotte, Season 1, 'Oceans Apart'.

“Is she to breathe, Mama?”

- Penelope Featherington, Season 1, ‘Diamond Of The First Water’.

"Dearest Gentle Reader, did you miss me?"

- Lady Whisteldown, Season 2, 'Capital R Rake'.

"Let it be known, dear reader, that if this bizarre behavior portends yet another scandal, Then be sure that I shall uncover it, for there is nothing like an excursion into nature to lift the spirits and loosen the tongue."

- Lady Whistledown, Season 1, 'Shock And Delight'.

"I shall be the very picture of amiability."

- Kate Sharma, Season 2, 'A Bee In Your Bonnet'.

"I think she just wears her hair too tight."

- Penelope Featherington, Season 2 'Capital R Rake'.

“So you must ask yourself, are you merely an older brother? Or are you the man of this house?”

- Violet Bridgerton, Season 1, 'Diamond Of The First Water'.

“Eloise: How does a lady come to be with child?

Violet Bridgerton: Eloise, what a question!”

- Season 1, 'Shock And Delight'.

"I am not Daphne."

- Eloise Bridgerton, Season 1, 'Capital R Rake'.

"I take issue with any man who views women merely as chattels and breeding stock."

- Kate Sharma, Season 2, 'Capital R Rake'.

"I believe it must begin with the letter A."

- Simon Basset, Season 2, 'After The Rain'.

"Beating you feels the same as any other win but somehow smells sweeter."

- Kate Sharma, Season 2 'Off To The Races'.