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

  Temptation, Promise, Wish

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• 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.

  Georgette Heyer

  Writing, Thinking, Air

  "Georgette Heyer, queen of Regency romance, honoured with blue plaque" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. June 05, 2015.

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• When fate is got it in for you, there is no limit to what you may have to put up with.

  Georgette Heyer

  Fate, May, Limits

  Georgette Heyer (2010). “A Blunt Instrument”, p.118, Random House

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• But it is only in epic tragedies that gloom is unrelieved. In real life tragedy and comedy are so intermingled that when one is most wretched ridiculous things happen to make one laugh in spite of oneself.

  Georgette Heyer

  Real, Epic, Laughing

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• 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.

  Georgette Heyer

  Ironic, Dresses, Growing

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• People who start a sentence with personally (and they're always women) ought to be thrown to the lions. It's a repulsive habit.

  Georgette Heyer

  People, Lions, Habit

  Georgette Heyer (2010). “Death in the Stocks”, p.43, Random House

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• No one could have called Mr. Standen quick-witted, but the possession of three sisters had considerably sharpened his instinct of self-preservation.

  Georgette Heyer

  Self, Three, Instinct

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• I remember only what interests me.

  Georgette Heyer

  Remember, Interest

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

  Georgette Heyer

  Falling In Love, Heartbreaking, Doe

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• The more enchanted the idyll, greater must be the pain of its ending.

  Georgette Heyer

  Pain, Enchanted, Greater

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• You have a genius for bringing trouble upon yourself

  Georgette Heyer

  Genius, Trouble

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• 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!

  Georgette Heyer

  Women, Thinking, Different

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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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• Miss Trent regarded her thoughtfully. "Well, it's an odd circumstance, but I've frequently observed that whenever you boast of your beauty you seem to lose some of it. I expect it must be the change in your expression." Startled, Tiffany flew to gaze anxiously into the ornate looking-glass which hung above the fireplace. "Do I?" she asked naively. "Really do I, Ancilla?" "Yes, decidedly," replied Miss Trent, perjuring her soul without the least hesitation.

  Georgette Heyer

  Glasses, Expression, Missing

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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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• 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.

  Georgette Heyer

  Thinking, Mind, Would Be

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• My house seems remarkably full of people," he observed. "Is it possible we were expected.

  Georgette Heyer

  People, House, Expected

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• Talking to you is like -- like talking to an eel!" "No, is it? I've never tried to talk to an eel. Isn't it as waste of time?" "Not such a waste of time as talking to you!

  Georgette Heyer

  Talking, Eels, Waste

  Georgette Heyer (2011). “Black Sheep”, p.43, Random House

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• Only trust me! You have fallen into a fit of despondency and there is not the least need! In fact, nothing could be more fatal, in any predicament! It encourages one to suppose that there is nothing to be done, when a little resolution is all that is wanted to bring matters to a happy conclusion.

  Georgette Heyer

  Needs, Done, Littles

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• I don't know how it is...but you seem to think me something wonderful, and indeed, I am not.

  Georgette Heyer

  Thinking, Admiration, Wonderful

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• 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

  Book, Eye, Interesting Conversation

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• 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.

  Georgette Heyer

  Love You, Thinking, Brain

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• 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.

  Georgette Heyer

  Thinking, Wife, May

  Georgette Heyer (2010). “Devil's Cub”, p.229, Random House

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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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