Georgette Heyer Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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

  Girl, Men, Common Sense

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

  Georgette Heyer

  Quality, Vices, Objects

  Georgette Heyer (2011). “Powder And Patch”, p.44, Random House

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• 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

  Reflection, Wife, Desire

  Georgette Heyer (2010). “Devil's Cub”, p.277, Random House

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• Recuérdame algún día que te enseñe a hacer una mueca, Hugh. La tuya es demasiado pronunciada, y no es más que una mueca. No debería ser más que una leve curvatura de los labios.

  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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• Difunde la buena nueva de que no decepcionará a los muchos admiradores de la Srta. Heyer. A juzgar por las cartas que he recibido de personas obviamente débiles mentales que desean que escriba otro These Old Shades, debería venderse como rosquillas. Yo misma creo que deberían fusilarme por escribir semejante disparate, pero es literatura de evasión cuestionablemente buena y creo que me gustaría bastante si estuviera sentada en un refugio antiaéreo o recuperándome de una gripe. Los detalles de la época son buenos; mi marido dice que es ingenioso... y sin llegar a estos extremos, diré que es muy divertido.

  Georgette Heyer

  Witty, Fun, Husband

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

  Georgette Heyer

  Modern Youth, Daylight, Abduction

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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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• 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

  Girl, Mind, Necks

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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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• 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

  Lying, Knowing, Sparrows

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• She stretched out her hand, saying, “Vernon! My dear, what a delightful surprise!” “What’s surprising about it?” he enquired, lifting his black brows. “Didn’t you ask me to come?” The smile remained pinned to Lady Buxted’s lips, but she replied with more than a touch of acidity: “To be sure I did, but so many days ago that I supposed you had gone out of town!” “Oh, no!” he said, returning her smile with one of great sweetness.

  Georgette Heyer

  Hands, Black, Gone

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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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• [...]my memory is reasonably good—unlike yours, dear sir!” “Mine is erratic,” he said imperturbably. “I remember only what interests me.

  Georgette Heyer

  Memories, Erratic, Remember

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• And don’t you say that it is very kind and obliging of him, sir, like Jessamy, because if you don’t like a person, you don’t wish to be obliged to him!

  Georgette Heyer

  Wish, Kind, Persons

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