Georgette Heyer Quotes

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The charm of your society, My Sparrow, lies in not knowing what will you say next - though one rapidly learns to fear the worst!

Georgette Heyer
You've no more for me than I have for you. Considerably disconcerted by this direct attack, she stammered: How can you say so? When I am sure I have always been most sincerely attached to you! You deceive yourself, sister: not to me, but to my purse!

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?

Georgette Heyer
And now I wish I hadn't been civil, because he says he shall not despair! He is as stupid as Endymion! No, no! said Alverstoke soothingly. Nobody could be as stupid as Endymion!

Georgette Heyer
Does it ever occur to you, Mama, that my grandfather is a lunatic?

Georgette Heyer
His Grace was at her side, and lifted her down from the chair. "My enfant," he said, "duchesses do not dance on chairs, nor do they call their brothers 'imbécile'." Léonie's twinkled irrepressibly. "I do," she said firmly.

Georgette Heyer
Do you recall Fred Merriville? She stared at him. Fred Merriville? Pray, what has he to say to anything? The poor fellow has nothing to say: he's dead, alas!

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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
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
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
I have seen what comes of being patient," Amanda said with a boding look. "And I have no opinion of it." "What does come of it?" Inquired Sir Gareth. "Nothing!

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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.

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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!

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Oh, 'tis not my qualities they object to! 'Tis my lack of vice.

Georgette Heyer
What is your name?" "Again sir, that is no concern of yours." "A mystery," he said. "I shall have to call you Clorinda."..... "Judith! What the devil? exclaimed Peregrine. "Has there been an accident?" "Judith," repeated the gentleman of the curricle pensively. "I prefer Clorinda.

Georgette Heyer
His attention caught, her companion raised his eyes from the book which lay open beside him on the table and directed them upon her in a look of aloof enquiry. 'What's that? Did you say something to me, Venetia?' 'Yes, love,' responded his sister cheerfully, 'but it wasn't of the least consequence, and in any event I answered for you. You would be astonished, I daresay, if you knew what interesting conversations I enjoy with myself.

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
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
I feel an almost overwhelming interest in the methods of daylight abduction employed by the modern youth.

Georgette Heyer
My dearest goose, why didn't you trust me, when I assured you that you might?' he countered. 'I have cherished throughout the believe that you would confide in me, and you see I was quite right.

Georgette Heyer
You are an atrocious person! Since the day I met you I have become steadily more depraved.

Georgette Heyer
Has no one ever told you that it is the height of impropriety to kiss any gentleman, unless you have the intention of accompanying him immediately to the altar?

Georgette Heyer
Eccentricity may be diverting, Mama, but it is out of place in a wife: certainly in my wife!

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
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