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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.
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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
Do you know, it has of late become an ambition of mine to hear my name on your lips instead of my title
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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
But where is my son? Where is the beautiful Miss Merriot?
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Morals and medicine warred within his breast, and medicine won the day- but I dare say morals may give him a sleepless night.
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the Reverend Felix Clowne,
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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
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There is nothing so mortifying as to fall in love with someone who does not share one's sentiments.
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I could manage him,' she sighed. 'Oh, but I could!
— Georgette Heyer
My dear girl, you don't consent to an abduction! You consent to an elopement, and I knew you wouldn't do that.
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mistress of Netherfold.
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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?
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May I have a workshop at Alver? For experiments? If I promise faithfully not to blow the house up? If you please, Cousin Alverstoke ... ?
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Really, I don't know what the world is coming to if I am to be suspected of staring in at windows!
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This, said Damerel wrathfully, is the second time you have walked in just as I am about to propose to your sister!
— Georgette Heyer
I wish to God I might induce her to mind me!' he ejaculated.
— Georgette Heyer
Of course she is a fool, but so are all girls.
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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
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.
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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
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
Me, I am not a lady,' announced her grace. 'I have been very well educated, and I will drink port.
— Georgette Heyer
The landlord was trying to explain that there were a great many English people in his house, all fighting duels or having hysterics.
— Georgette Heyer
Friday. Proposed to Cicely. Refused.
— Georgette Heyer
Tell me,is my grey hall an insuperable bar to matrimony?
— Georgette Heyer
What I mean is, like you to have everything you want. Wished it was me, that's all
— Georgette Heyer
I don't know how it is ... but you seem to think me something wonderful, and indeed, I am not.
— Georgette Heyer
Oh, Randall, don't be such a vile beast!""I don't think much of that",he said critically. "Amiable snake was much better. — Georgette Heyer
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!
— Georgette Heyer
With Philip's departure had come a void which only could be filled by Philip's return.
— Georgette Heyer
I like very few people nowadays; in fact, the number of persons whom I cordially dislike increases almost hourly.
— Georgette Heyer
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?
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is my very ardent desire to be permitted to pay my addresses to you
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O God, Mama, I've made such a mull of it! What am I to do?
— Georgette Heyer
The more enchanted the idyll, greater must be the pain of its ending.
— Georgette Heyer
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? — Georgette Heyer
I remember only what interests me.
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there it must end!
— Georgette Heyer
Speed is the curse of the age.
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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
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[ ... ]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:
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She thought that Fontley had suffered as much from a negligent mistress as from an improvident master.
— Georgette Heyer
Few things are more boring than fruitless arguments!
— Georgette Heyer
You're Beau Wyndham! Well, I'll be damned!''The prospect,' said Sir Richard, bored, 'leaves me unmoved — 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
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.
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Miss Allison realised with a slight sinking of the heart that she was to be made the recipient of confidences.
— Georgette Heyer
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
In my experience, the human mind, when under the influence of fear, rushes round in frantic circles.
— Georgette Heyer
Surprise is the essence of attack!
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I cannot bear to go back alone - to the world I have lived in with you.
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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
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Yes, Nicky, but you think I know everything because I never tell you anything I am not quite certain of
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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
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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)
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You have a genius for bringing trouble upon yourself
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Simplicity was abhorrent to his lordship; he revelled in a net-work of intrigue; he loved to accomplish the impossible.
— 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)
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Gentlemen don't understand anything, however wise they may be.
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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
Charles' driving, skilful though it might be, kept his passengers in a constant state of breathlessness.
— Georgette Heyer
Does it ever occur to you, Mama, that my grandfather is a lunatic?
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You are an atrocious person! Since the day I met you I have become steadily more depraved.
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On the toodle last night, and not feeling quite the thing today?
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Cheaper still, I might miss my tip.
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Besides, it was a well-known maxim that maniacs must be humoured.
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Them Frenchies!' 'Unchristian, that's what I call 'em,' responded Mr. Stubbs severely. 'I fair compassionate that wench. — Georgette Heyer
If I must consort with rogues [ ... ] I own I like them to be in the grand manner.
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Nothing makes one so cross as knowing one is in the wrong, does it?
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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
A man whose raiment attracted attention, had said Mr Brummell, was not a well-dressed man.
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I contrive,"' said Prudence softly. 'Do you know, sir, you puzzle me.' 'It has ever been my motto,' the old gentleman pointed out triumphantly.
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How very awkward places we do choose in which to propose to one another!' remarked Mr. Beaumaris
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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
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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.
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