Georgette Heyer Quotes - Page 2

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• Those fine eyes of hers had a disconcertingly direct gaze, and very often twinkled in a manner disturbing to male egotism. She had common-sense too, and what man wanted the plainly matter-of-fact, when he could enjoy instead Sophia's delicious folly?

  Georgette Heyer

  Eye, Men, Common Sense

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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.

  Georgette Heyer

  Thinking, Snakes, Beast

  Georgette Heyer (2010). “Behold, Here's Poison”, p.291, Random House

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• Is it not insupportable to be held down to a canter when you long to gallop for miles?

  Georgette Heyer

  Long, Miles

  "The Grand Sophy".

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• Do you forget that I am your sister?” “No; I’ve never been granted the opportunity to forget it.

  Georgette Heyer

  Opportunity, Forget, Granted

  Georgette Heyer (2011). “Frederica”, p.8, Random House

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• I wish you did return my regard," he said. "More than I have ever wished anything in my life! Perhaps you may yet learn to do so: I should warn you that I don't easily despair!

  Georgette Heyer

  Wish, Despair, May

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• 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

  Love You, Hands, Clothes

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• It has always seemed to me that if one falls in love with any gentleman one becomes instantly blind to his faults.But I am not blind to your faults, and I do not think that everything you do or say is right! Only—Is it being—not very comfortable—and cross—and not quite happy, when you aren’t there?” “That, my darling,” said his lordship,taking her ruthlessly into his arms,“is exactly what it s!” “Oh—!” Frederica gasped, as she emerged from an embrace which threatened to suffocate her. “Now I know! I am in love!

  Georgette Heyer

  Falling In Love, Thinking, Gentleman

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• O God, I love you to the edge of madness, Venetia, but I'm not mad yet--not so mad that I don't know how disastrous it might be to you--to us both! You don't realize what an advantage I should be taking of your innocence!

  Georgette Heyer

  Love You, Mad, Might

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• Sir Richard sighed. "Rid yourself of the notion that I cherish any villainous designs upon your person," he said. "I imagine I might well be your father. How old are you?" "I am turned seventeen." "Well, I am nearly thirty," said Sir Richard. Miss Creed worked this out. "You couldn't possibly be my father!" "I am far too drunk to solve arithmetical problems. Let it suffice that I have not the slightest intention of making love to you.

  Georgette Heyer

  Father, Drunk, Design

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• She succumbed to the eternal feminine passion for bargains.

  Georgette Heyer

  Passion, Feminine, Eternal

  Georgette Heyer (2011). “Cotillion”, p.118, Random House

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• 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

  Girl, Abduction, Dear

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

  Georgette Heyer

  Wife, May, Mama

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• 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

  Stupid, Wish, Despair

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• Léonie, you will do well to consider. You are not the first woman in my life." She smiled through her tears. "Monseigneur, I would so much rather be the last woman than the first,” she said.

  Georgette Heyer

  Tears, Lasts, Firsts

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• Oh, yes, she's unusual!' he said bitterly. 'She blurts our whatever may come into her head;she tumbles from one outrageous escapade into another;she's happier gromming horses and hobnobbing with stable-hands than going to parties; she's impertinent; you daren't catch her eye for fear she should start to giggle; she hasn't any accomplishments; I never saw anyone with less diginity; she's abominable, and damnably hot at hand, frank to a fault, and-a darling!

  Georgette Heyer

  Horse, Party, Eye

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• 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

  Fate, Men, Long

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• You must not imagine that Papa or I have the least notion of compelling you to marry anyone whom you hold in aversion, for I am sure that such a thing would be quite shocking! And Charles would not do so either, would you, dear Charles?”(Elizabeth Ombersley) “No, certainly not. But neither would I consent to her marriage with any such frippery fellow as Augustus Fawnhope!” “Augustus,” announced Cecilia, putting up her chin, “will be remembered long after you have sunk into oblivion!” “By his creditors? I don’t doubt it.

  Georgette Heyer

  Long, Doubt, Papa

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• 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

  Men, Dragons, Hands

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• 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.

  Georgette Heyer

  One Day, Curls, Lips

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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

  Sacrifice, Wells, Ifs

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

  Georgette Heyer

  Enjoyed, Intervals

  Georgette Heyer (2010). “Behold, Here's Poison”, p.157, Random House

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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

  Giving, Icy, Ifs

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• Spread the glad tidings that it will not disappoint Miss Heyer's many admirers. Judging from the letters I've received from obviously feeble-minded persons who do so wish I would write another These Old Shades, it ought to sell like hot cakes. I think myself I ought to be shot for writing such nonsense, but it's questionably good escapist literature and I think I should rather like it if I were sitting in an air-raid shelter, or recovering from flu. Its period detail is good; my husband says it's witty---and without going to these lengths, I will say that it is very good fun.

  Georgette Heyer

  Witty, Fun, Husband

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• 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

  Girl, Lazy, Social Work

  Georgette Heyer (2010). “They Found Him Dead”, p.209, Random House

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• 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

  Praying, Poor, Alas

  Georgette Heyer (2011). “Frederica”, p.61, Random House

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