Georgette Heyer Quotes

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

Georgette Heyer
Let me tell you, my girl, that I'm swallowing no more of your insults! And if I hear another word from you in disparagement of the Corinthian set it will be very much the worse for you!

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
God knows I'm no saint, but I don't think I'm more of a sinner than any other man.

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

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!

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
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
Randall laid his hand on Stella's, but only to remove it from his sleeve. "My precious, you really must have some regard for my clothes," he said with gentle reproach. "Much as I love you, I cannot permit you to maul this particular coat.

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
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
Remind me one day to teach you how to achieve a sneer, Hugh. Yours is too pronounced, and thus but a grimace. It should be but a faint curl of the lips.

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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.

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Only trust me! You have fallen into a fit of despondency and there is not the least need! In fact, nothing could be more fatal, in any predicament! It encourages one to suppose that there is nothing to be done, when a little resolution is all that is wanted to bring matters to a happy conclusion.

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
I liked that young man, did not you? There was something particularly pleasing about his manners, which I thought very easy and frank. He has an air of honest manliness, too, which, in these days of fribbles and counter-coxcombs, I own I find refreshing!

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
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
Your fate is writ clear; you will be murdered. I cannot conceive how it comes about that you were not murdered long since! How odd! Charles himself once said that to me, or something like it! There is nothing odd in it; any sensible man must say it!

Georgette Heyer
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.

Georgette Heyer
Do you forget that I am your sister? No; I've never been granted the opportunity to forget it.

Georgette Heyer
Miss Grantham's sense of humour got the better of her at this point, and, tottering towards a chair, she sank into it, exclaiming in tragic accents:'Oh Heavens! I am betrayed!' His lordship blenched; both he and miss Laxton regarded her with guilty dismay. Miss Grantham buried her face in her handkerchief, and uttered one shattering word: 'Wretch!

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I was under the impression that I warned you that in London country ways will not do, Frederica! You did! she retorted. And although I can't say that I paid much heed to your advice it so happens that I am accompanied today by my aunt! Who adds invisibility to her other accomplishments!

Georgette Heyer
She bowed her head, clasping her hands tightly before her upon the arm of his chair, for her heart yearned towards him, yet could not reach him, and it made her throat ache with unhappiness to meet that look of his that rested on her face without seeing it.

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
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!

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

Georgette Heyer
You will allow that one's curiosity must be aroused when one learns that a lady is prepared to elope to escape from advances one had not the least intention of making!

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

Georgette Heyer