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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! — Georgette Heyer
As soon as one promises not to do something, it becomes the one thing above all others that one most wishes to do.
— Georgette Heyer
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!
— Georgette Heyer
odd in it: any sensible man must say it!' She laughed, but said: 'No, you are unjust! I have never yet done
— Georgette Heyer
Nevertheless, she did not weep, because, for one thing, it would have made her eyes red, and another, it would be of very little use.
— Georgette Heyer
Reality is the only place you can deal from. If you're still worrying about the way things should be, you haven't even approached the starting line.
— Georgette Mosbacher
But where is my son? Where is the beautiful Miss Merriot?
— Georgette Heyer
Morals and medicine warred within his breast, and medicine won the day- but I dare say morals may give him a sleepless night.
— Georgette Heyer
Everyone wants a hug and kiss. It translates into any language.
— Georgette Mosbacher
the Reverend Felix Clowne,
— Georgette Heyer
Success is the process of not accepting failure.
— Georgette Mosbacher
Passion, that thing of beauty, that flowering without roots, has to be born, live and die without reason.
— Georgette Leblanc
To create the life you deserve, you have to go after it. The universe that you inhabit flows from you - you don't flow from it.
— Georgette Mosbacher
Cash is cold comfort under these circumstances. But make no mistake about it; It is some comfort.
— Georgette Mosbacher
Failure may be just a step toward your eventual goal.
— Georgette Mosbacher
I have serious adult acne, am almost legally blind and have to work at controlling my weight.
— Georgette Mosbacher
To live is often only to have a choice of several despairs.
— Georgette Leblanc
Your strength lies in being precisely the kind of man who can procure one a chair when it has come on to rain.
— Georgette Heyer
I feel an almost overwhelming interest in the methods of daylight abduction employed by the modern youth.
— Georgette Heyer
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
— Georgette Heyer
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!
— Georgette Heyer
I am not quite sober you know. In fact, I am drunk, but I cannot help feeling this is all a trifle, shall we say, irregular?
— Georgette Heyer
She succumbed to the eternal feminine passion for bargains.
— Georgette Heyer
There is always a thought of marriage between a single female and a personable gentleman, if not in his mind, quite certainly in hers.
— Georgette Heyer
Do you know, I think that of all your idiosyncrasies that choke you give, when you are determined not to laugh, is the one that most enchants me.
— Georgette Heyer
Them Frenchies!' 'Unchristian, that's what I call 'em,' responded Mr. Stubbs severely. 'I fair compassionate that wench. — Georgette Heyer
You have a genius for bringing trouble upon yourself
— Georgette Heyer
And that reminds me, Mama! I have just intercepted another of that puppy's floral offerings to my sister. This billet was attached to it. (Charles)
— Georgette Heyer
Gentlemen don't understand anything, however wise they may be.
— Georgette Heyer
It was growing late, and though one might stand on the brink of a deep chasm of disaster, one was still obliged to dress for dinner.
— Georgette Heyer
There is nothing so mortifying as to fall in love with someone who does not share one's sentiments.
— Georgette Heyer
Simplicity was abhorrent to his lordship; he revelled in a net-work of intrigue; he loved to accomplish the impossible.
— Georgette Heyer
there it must end!
— Georgette Heyer
A man who isn't generous with his money isn't generous with his love and affection.
— Georgette Mosbacher
Speed is the curse of the age.
— Georgette Heyer
Will you marry me, vile and abominable girl that you are?Yes, but, mind, it only to save my neck from being wrung! — Georgette Heyer
![Georgette Quotes By Georgette Heyer: [ ... ]my memory is reasonably good -](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/georgette-quotes-by-georgette-heyer-1267628.jpg "Georgette Quotes By Georgette Heyer: [ ... ]my memory is reasonably good -")
[ ... ]my memory is reasonably good - unlike yours, dear sir!""Mine is erratic," he said imperturbably. "I remember only what interests me. — Georgette Heyer
She forced herself to smile, and to say magniloquently:
— Georgette Heyer
She thought that Fontley had suffered as much from a negligent mistress as from an improvident master.
— Georgette Heyer
This, said Damerel wrathfully, is the second time you have walked in just as I am about to propose to your sister!
— Georgette Heyer
O God, Mama, I've made such a mull of it! What am I to do?
— Georgette Heyer
Of course she is a fool, but so are all girls.
— Georgette Heyer
Really, I don't know what the world is coming to if I am to be suspected of staring in at windows!
— Georgette Heyer
Honorable Judge Robert Galbraith
— Georgette St. Clair
May I have a workshop at Alver? For experiments? If I promise faithfully not to blow the house up? If you please, Cousin Alverstoke ... ?
— Georgette Heyer
The sight which met her eyes held her frozen on the threshold, and the thought flashed across her mind that she knew now how it felt to die
— Georgette Heyer
I could manage him,' she sighed. 'Oh, but I could!
— Georgette Heyer
Nine times out of ten you take the first step in creating your own universe by picking up the phone.
— Georgette Mosbacher
My dear girl, you don't consent to an abduction! You consent to an elopement, and I knew you wouldn't do that.
— Georgette Heyer
mistress of Netherfold.
— Georgette Heyer
I remember only what interests me.
— Georgette Heyer
I wish to God I might induce her to mind me!' he ejaculated.
— Georgette Heyer
Surprise is the essence of attack!
— Georgette Heyer
Do you like pets better than toys and books? I always did, so I thought very likely you would too.
— Georgette Heyer
The thought flashed into her mind that she beheld the embodiment of her ideal. It was as instantly banished;
— Georgette Heyer
Nothing is so destructive of female charms as contact with fresh air.
— Georgette Heyer
Much discomposed, Freddy made inarticulate noises.
— Georgette Heyer
Miss Allison realised with a slight sinking of the heart that she was to be made the recipient of confidences.
— Georgette Heyer
All the goodness, beauty, and perfection of a human being belong to the one who knows how to recognize these qualities.
— Georgette Leblanc
How the duece would you know the right way to go on if you was never taught anything but the wrong way?
— Georgette Heyer
Do you forget that I am your sister?""No; I've never been granted the opportunity to forget it. — Georgette Heyer
Oh, 'tis not my qualities they object to! 'Tis my lack of vice.
— Georgette Heyer
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!
— Georgette Heyer
Few things are more boring than fruitless arguments!
— Georgette Heyer
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!
— Georgette Heyer
I cannot bear to go back alone - to the world I have lived in with you.
— Georgette Heyer
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.
— Georgette Heyer
People who start a sentence with personally (and they're always women) ought to be thrown to the lions. It's a repulsive habit.
— Georgette Heyer
He didn't choose between me and you, Julia: it was between me and ruin.
— Georgette Heyer
When fate is got it in for you, there is no limit to what you may have to put up with.
— Georgette Heyer
If people are only kind to me I'm sure I am the last person to quarrel with anyone.' His
— Georgette Heyer
Yes, Nicky, but you think I know everything because I never tell you anything I am not quite certain of
— Georgette Heyer
I do not like your name, sir," she answered."There was no thought of pleasing you when I was christened." he quoted lazily. — Georgette Heyer
Entertaining females with accounts of jug-bitten maunderings is one of my favourite pastimes.' He
— Georgette Heyer
No one could have called Mr. Standen quick-witted, but the possession of three sisters had considerably sharpened his instinct of self-preservation.
— Georgette Heyer
A man whose raiment attracted attention, had said Mr Brummell, was not a well-dressed man.
— Georgette Heyer
Does it ever occur to you, Mama, that my grandfather is a lunatic?
— Georgette Heyer
You are an atrocious person! Since the day I met you I have become steadily more depraved.
— Georgette Heyer
On the toodle last night, and not feeling quite the thing today?
— Georgette Heyer
Cheaper still, I might miss my tip.
— Georgette Heyer
Besides, it was a well-known maxim that maniacs must be humoured.
— Georgette Heyer
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[ ... ]if you talk any more flummery to me, Frederica, I shall give you one of my - er - icy set-downs!(Alverstoke)
— Georgette Heyer
If I must consort with rogues [ ... ] I own I like them to be in the grand manner.
— Georgette Heyer
Nothing makes one so cross as knowing one is in the wrong, does it?
— Georgette Heyer
Well, you have the right to make a sacrifice of yourself, but I'll be damned if I'll let you sacrifice me!
— Georgette Heyer
Charles' driving, skilful though it might be, kept his passengers in a constant state of breathlessness.
— Georgette Heyer
Without imagination, nothing is dangerous.
— Georgette Leblanc
I contrive,"' said Prudence softly. 'Do you know, sir, you puzzle me.' 'It has ever been my motto,' the old gentleman pointed out triumphantly.
— Georgette Heyer
How very awkward places we do choose in which to propose to one another!' remarked Mr. Beaumaris
— Georgette Heyer
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
— Georgette Heyer
It was like a bad dream, in which people one knew quite well behaved fantastically, and one was powerless to escape from some dreadful doom.
— Georgette Heyer
After all, life was not made up of moments of exaltation, but of quite ordinary, everyday things
— Georgette Heyer
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.
— Georgette Heyer
I wasn't born a redhead, but I was born to be a redhead.
— Georgette Mosbacher
