Georgette Heyer Quotes

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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
[He was aware] of the value of the word of praise dropped at exactly the right moment; and he would have thought himself extremely stupid to withhold what cost him so little and was productive of such desirable results.

Georgette Heyer
Perhaps, murmured his lordship, I yielded to a compassionate impulse. A what? gasped his best friend. Oh, did you think I never did so? said his lordship, the satirical glint in his eyes extremely pronounced. You wrong me! I do, sometimes—not frequently, of course, but every now and then!

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
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
The society of my relatives can only be enjoyed with frequent intervals.

Georgette Heyer
Depend upon it, you are just the sort of girl a man would be glad to have for his sister! You don't even know how to swoon, and I daresay if you tried you would make wretched work of it, for all you have is common sense, and of what use is that, pray?

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
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
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
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.

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Oh, Randall, don't be such a vile beast!" "I don't think much of that",he said critically. "Amiable snake was much better.

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I've noticed that ineffectual people usually do go in for highfalutin threats.

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

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
I comfort myself with the reflection that your wife will possibly be able to curb your desire—I admit, a natural one for the most part—to exterminate your fellows.

Georgette Heyer
The Marquis believed himself to be hardened against flattery. He thought that he had experienced every variety, but he discovered that he was mistaken: the blatantly worshipful look in the eyes of a twelve-year-old, anxiously raised to his, was new to him, and it pierced his defences.

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