Quotes from Georgette Heyer

for one couldn't expect her to dine in the housekeeper's

Long before the season ended - if not before it start! - Damerel would be heaven knows where, strewing rose-leaves about for some abandoned male to tread on! Well, one thing at least I'm determined on! if he *must* indulge in such wasteful habits he shall strew his rose-leaves for me to tread upon, not one of his ridiculous Paphians!

Well of course it did and it would have made any man feel just as I did! I told Mama - perfectly politely! that it was enough to make me jump on the Bristol coach, and ship aboard the first packet bound for America, or anywhere else that Bristol boats sail to,because I would rather live in the Antipodes than have Cordelia hanging around my neck...

This, said Damerel wrathfully, is the second time you have walked in just as I am about to propose to your sister!

There is nothing so mortifying as to fall in love with someone who does not share one's sentiments.

You don't feel you could marry me instead? Got no brains, of course, and I ain't a handsome fellow, like Jack, but I love you. Don't think I could ever love anyone else.

I think myself I ought to be shot for writing such nonsense... But it's unquestionably good escapist literature, and I think I should rather like it if I were sitting in an air-raid shelter or recovering from flu.

I am relieved. May I now have the truth?

What I mean is, like you to have everything you want. Wished it was me, that's all

You're only a man! You've not our gifts! I can tell you! Why, a woman can think of a hundred different things at once, all them contradictory!

As soon as one promises not to do something, it becomes the one thing above all others that one most wishes to do.

You're only a man! You've not our gifts! I can tell you! Why, a woman can think of a hundred different things at once, all them contradictory!

There is nothing so mortifying as to fall in love with someone who does not share one's sentiments.

It was growing late, and though one might stand on the brink of a deep chasm of disaster, one was still obliged to dress for dinner.

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

She decided that her wisest course would be to put him out of her mind. After reaching this conclusion she lay thinking about him until at last she fell asleep.

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

What I mean is, like you to have everything you want. Wished it was me, and not Jack, that's all.

You may have married her, but she is mine. Do you think I shall let you take her? She may be ten times your wife, but, by God, you shall never have her.

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!

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.

Well, you have the right to make a sacrifice of yourself, but I'll be damned if I'll let you sacrifice me!

Do you mean to tell me that Mr. Trevor read my letter?" demanded Lady Buxted indignantly. "Your secretary?" "I employ him to read my letters," explained his lordship.(Alverstroke) "Not those written by your nearest and dearest!" "Oh, no, not them !" he agreed.

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!