Georgette Heyer Quotes

But it was only in epic tragedies that gloom was unrelieved. In real life tragedy and comedy were so intermingled that when one was most wretched ridiculous things happened to make one laugh in spite...

But that’s what he did, and if he has made up his mind to be idiotishly noble – Yes, it is going to be very difficult. I must think!

Damn this curst family nose!’ said Ludovic. ‘It’ll ruin me yet.’ ‘That’s what I’m thinking,’ agreed Bundy.

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!

Downright malten-hearted, that’s me!’ ‘Yes, but I don’t think you are! Well, how could you be? You are a soldier!’ ‘Ay, and a terrible time I had of it, keeping in the rear,’ he said, falling into rem...

Fair Fatality, you are the most unusual female I have encountered in all my thirty-eight years! You can't think how deeply flattered I am! she assured him. I daresay my head would be quite turned if I...

From being a female sunk below reproach Sophy became rapidly an unconventional girl whose unaffected manners were refreshing in an age of simpers and high flights.

Glamour might still have clung to a rakehell who abducted noble damsels, but no glamour remained about a man who had been pushed into a pond in full ball-dress.

God knew she would ask nothing better than to be his wife, but she had sense enough to know that nothing but unhappiness could result from it. If he had loved her, if she had been of his world, approv...

He did not defy convention: when it did not interfere with whatever line of conduct he meant to pursue he conformed to it; and when it did he ignored it, affably conceding to his critics their right t...

He had expected to have been received, if not with gratification, at least with pleasure: it had been a piece of condescension on the part of the head of the family to have visited its reprobate, but...

He would not object, he said, to accepting a post as a librarian. But as Cecilia was unable to imagine that her father or her brother would feel any marked degree of satisfaction in giving her in marr...

How is this? she demanded I had thought a Marquis must always be acceptable!That, Miss Merriville, Depends on the Marquis!

I am not in a heat at all,’ Léonie said with great precision. ‘I am of a coolness quite remarkable, and I would like to kill that woman.

I am quite beneath your touch, sir!’ ‘No, no, that’s coming it much too strong!’ he said. ‘When I have it on excellent authority that your uncle is a General!’ For a moment she suspected him of mocker...

I am selfish, father? Because I will not become the thing I despise?And narrow, Philips, to despise what you do not know.I am to be a painted popinjay! I tell you, sir, Cleone may take me as I am!Or l...

I do not like your name, sir, she answered.There was no thought of pleasing you when I was christened. he quoted lazily.

I have never met the man who had vision large enough to appreciate my genius, he said simply. Perhaps it was not to be expected.

I have not always appeared to be sensible of the care you have bestowed on me, but I know now that it has been unceasing.

I said, Quiet!Tiffany was so much startled by this peremptory reminder that she gasped, and stood staring up at the Nonesuch as though she could not believe that he was speaking not to his cousin, but...