Quotes About Regency

In the hazy afternoon light through the windows he looked beautiful and dissolute, shirt open at the collar and streaks of golden hair falling into his eyes, like some Regency buck after a long night's dancing.

I actually have a history of doing quite a few period dramas, but I think I really specifically wanted to do the Regency era, and to be able to do high-society Regency era is even more amazing.

Ah, lady, when I gave my heart to thee, It passed into thy lifelong regency.

I like period drama because everyone is so restrained, but they have all these emotions raging underneath.

I heard, 'Shondaland is doing Regency England with Netflix,' and I was like, 'I'm in!'

I feel very much at home in the early nineteenth century and am not inclined to leave it.

Gentleman: An imaginary creature found in Jane Austen novels.

De hecho, se estableció una relación simbiótica entre la aparición de la radio de transistores y la irrupción del rock and roll. La primera grabación comercial de Elvis Presley, «That's All Right», salió a la venta al mismo tiempo que la radio Regency.

No lace. No lace, Mrs. Bennett, I beg you!

Come Darcy,' said he. 'I must have you dance. I hate to see you standing around by yourself in this stupid manner.

he was gone off to London, merely to have his hair cut...there was an air of foppery and nonsense in it which she could not approve

But Mr. Elton had only drunk wine enough to elevate his spirits, not at all to confuse his intellects.

The loo-table, however, did not appear.

How she might have felt had there been no Captain Wentworth in the case, was not worth enquiry; for there was a Captain Wentworth; and be the conclusion of the present suspense good or bad, her affection would be his for ever. Their

the history; that was the glory of Miss

People often misuse the term 'Regency' to describe art or antiques dating from a vague period between the 1790s and the 1830s, but technically the period only lasted between 1811 and 1820.

He'll catch the pox someday," Pandora persisted darkly, "if he hasn't already. And then he'll give it to me." "You're being dramatic. And not all rakes have the pox." "I'm going to ask him if he does." "Pandora, you wouldn't! The poor man would be horrified." "So would I, if I ended up losing my nose.

Rakes make good husbands. Especially when they fall in love.

Regency buildings are often said to lack the serenity of their early Georgian predecessors, or the intense scholarship of the subsequent Gothic revival.

The episode," he said. "You mean when I put my tongue down your throat and lifted your skirts and put my hand on your pudenda in that hardly-worth-mentioning way." "It would be good of you not to mention it," she said.

He had even read Pride and Prejudice--although he had thought that many of the heroine's problems would have been solved if someone had simply strangled her mother.

The Regency was an age of hard gambling, and therefore it was more important than ever to keep the family finances afloat by marrying well.

In the land of historical romance novels, particularly the Regencies, there is no line more quoted than this: Reformed rakes make the best husbands. It's the sort of pithy one-liner a beloved character dashes off and everyone laughs a sparkling laugh, the heroine knits her brow, and the rogue in question scowls but we all know the truth: That bad boy will soon be reformed. And he will like it.

Celia, you sound like Mrs Bennett.' 'I hope not,' said Celia briskly, 'she was an excessively silly woman.