Georgette Heyer Quotes
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How is this?" she demanded "I had thought a Marquis must always be acceptable!"
"That, Miss Merriville, Depends on the Marquis!
"That, Miss Merriville, Depends on the Marquis!
As soon as one promises not to do something, it becomes the one thing above all others that one most wishes to do.
As for the fan, she agreed that it was a most amusing trifle: just what she would wish to buy for herself, if it had not been so excessively ugly!
I have never met the man who had vision large enough to appreciate my genius," he said simply. "Perhaps it was not to be expected.
Do you know, it has of late become an ambition of mine to hear my name on your lips instead of my title
Lady Winwood being denied, the morning caller inquired with some anxiety for Miss Winwood, or, in fact, for any of the young ladies.
I like very few people nowadays; in fact, the number of persons whom I cordially dislike increases almost hourly.
My lord, when I first encountered you the suspicion crossed my mind that your intellect was disordered. I am now certain that this is so!
Oh, Randall, don't be such a vile beast!"
"I don't think much of that",he said critically. "Amiable snake was much better.
"I don't think much of that",he said critically. "Amiable snake was much better.
Martin,' interrupted Gervase, 'why were you stunned, kept in durance vile, and finally rolled into a sand-pit?
I can't imagine what possessed you to propose to me."
"Well that will give you something to puzzle over any time you can't sleep.
"Well that will give you something to puzzle over any time you can't sleep.
My dear girl, don't talk nonsense to me! You're lazy, that's all that's wrong with you. Why don't you take up social work?
You will like her," he persisted. "Egad, she's after your own heart, maman! She shot me in the arm."
"Voyons, do you think that is what I like?
"Voyons, do you think that is what I like?
Will you marry me, vile and abominable girl that you are?
Yes, but, mind, it only to save my neck from being wrung!
Yes, but, mind, it only to save my neck from being wrung!
[ ... ]my memory is reasonably good - unlike yours, dear sir!"
"Mine is erratic," he said imperturbably. "I remember only what interests me.
"Mine is erratic," he said imperturbably. "I remember only what interests me.
She thought that Fontley had suffered as much from a negligent mistress as from an improvident master.
She was generally considered to be a pretty woman; and, since she was as good-natured as she was foolish, she was almost universally liked.
The charm of your society, My Sparrow, lies in not knowing what will you say next - though one rapidly learns to fear the worst!
Monseigneur, I have killed you! You are dead! You are dead!"
You display an unseemly joy," he remarked. "I had no notion you were so bloodthirsty.
You display an unseemly joy," he remarked. "I had no notion you were so bloodthirsty.
Just because I cut a lark with that stiff-rumped Exciseman you seem to think I'm as good as rope-ripe!
No, but on the other hand you don't enact me Cheltenham tragedies when I've barely swallowed my breakfast.
You've never been in a scrape yet but what it came about by accident. The thing is, no one else has these accidents.
Yes, darling, that is quite a nice frock, but the hankerchief is not only the wrong shade of grey, but quite damnably tied. Let me show you, my sweet.
Eggs I must instantly have!" she announced. "And Lope de Vega I will not have, though in general a fine poet, but not in the kitchen!
You're only a man! You've not our gifts! I can tell you! Why, a woman can think of a hundred different things at once, all them contradictory!
I contrive,"' said Prudence softly. 'Do you know, sir, you puzzle me.' 'It has ever been my motto,' the old gentleman pointed out triumphantly.
I don't think I am green. It's true I only know what I've read in books, but I've read a great many books
There was nothing in store at Undershaw for his lordship but a set-down, but it was disappointing to be granted no opportunity to deliver this.
You're Beau Wyndham! Well, I'll be damned!'
'The prospect,' said Sir Richard, bored, 'leaves me unmoved
'The prospect,' said Sir Richard, bored, 'leaves me unmoved
I daresay Freddy might not be a great hand at slaying dragons- but one has not the smallest need of a man who can kill dragons!
The thought flashed into her mind that she beheld the embodiment of her ideal. It was as instantly banished;
There is a worse tyranny than that of ill-treatment. It is the tyranny of tears, vapours, appeals to feelings of affection and of gratitude!
I may have said that I wanted to have an adventure," replied Miss Thane. "But I never said that I wanted to be murdered in my bed.
People who start a sentence with personally (and they're always women) ought to be thrown to the lions. It's a repulsive habit.
Yes, Nicky, but you think I know everything because I never tell you anything I am not quite certain of
I do not like your name, sir," she answered.
"There was no thought of pleasing you when I was christened." he quoted lazily.
"There was no thought of pleasing you when I was christened." he quoted lazily.
There is always a thought of marriage between a single female and a personable gentleman, if not in his mind, quite certainly in hers.
No one could have called Mr. Standen quick-witted, but the possession of three sisters had considerably sharpened his instinct of self-preservation.
May I have a workshop at Alver? For experiments? If I promise faithfully not to blow the house up? If you please, Cousin Alverstoke ... ?
My dear girl, you don't consent to an abduction! You consent to an elopement, and I knew you wouldn't do that.
This is my cousin, by the way. I dare say you know of him. He is very wicked and kills people in duels. Vidal, this is Frederick.' His
You can't go about smelling of April and May, the pair of you, and then expect to gull people into thinking you don't mean to get riveted!
This, said Damerel wrathfully, is the second time you have walked in just as I am about to propose to your sister!
Them Frenchies!'
'Unchristian, that's what I call 'em,' responded Mr. Stubbs severely. 'I fair compassionate that wench.
'Unchristian, that's what I call 'em,' responded Mr. Stubbs severely. 'I fair compassionate that wench.