Anthony Bridgerton Quotes

Anthony Bridgerton (to Kate): Do you think that I want to be in this position? Contending with these thoughts of wanting to be nowhere except with you. Wanting to run away with you. Of acting on the most impure, forbidden desires, no matter… how much I must remind myself I am a gentleman, and you are a lady. Of that… of that scent. It has remained imprinted on my mind ever since the night of the conservatory ball on that terrace. Lilies.

Anthony Bridgerton (to Kate): All I find myself thinking about, all I find myself being able to breathe for… is you.

Anthony Bridgerton (to Kate): I have never met anyone like you. It is maddening, how much you consume my very being.

Anthony Bridgerton: Miss Edwina, I have never wavered in my intentions since the first moment of our meeting. It was clear to me then, as it is now, that what we share is greater than all else.

Edwina Sharma: And what is it that you believe we share?

Anthony Bridgerton: Our places. Our roles. They align. I, as the viscount. You, as the diamond. Neither by our own choice. We are yoked to each other in that respect. It is why I never gave up pursuing you, even when some thought me a fool to continue. It is why I was not swayed by the insults of the Sheffields or your lack of a dowry.

Edwina Sharma: Because… you love me?

Anthony Bridgerton: I understand you. I sympathize with you. In a certain light, I am you. We do not have the luxury of choice. We cannot escape our roles.

Anthony Bridgerton (to Daphne): You were born to marry into another family. I was born to carry on the Bridgerton name. That is what outweighs anything else. It is rather easy to be selfish when you have no one else to whom you must answer.