Georgette Heyer Quotes

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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.
• Judging from the letters I've received from obviously feeble-minded persons who wish I would write another These Old Shades, it ought to sell like hot…
• There is nothing so mortifying as to fall in love with someone who does not share one's sentiments.
• I remember only what interests me.
• Spread the glad tidings that it will not disappoint Miss Heyer's many admirers. Judging from the letters I've received from obviously feeble-minded persons who do…
• 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…
• She bowed her head, clasping her hands tightly before her upon the arm of his chair, for her heart yearned towards him, yet could not…
• 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,"…
• 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…
• I feel an almost overwhelming interest in the methods of daylight abduction employed by the modern youth.
• 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…
• 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…
• No one could have called Mr. Standen quick-witted, but the possession of three sisters had considerably sharpened his instinct of self-preservation.
• 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?
• As for the fan, she agreed that it was a most amusing trifle: just what she would wish to buy for herself, if it had…
• 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,…
• Miss Grantham's sense of humour got the better of her at this point, and, tottering towards a chair, she sank into it, exclaiming in tragic…
• Miss Grantham gave a shriek. 'You have trifled with me!' she said, into the folds of her handkerchief. 'You promised me marriage, and now you…
• My dearest goose, why didn't you trust me, when I assured you that you might?' he countered. 'I have cherished throughout the believe that you…
• How very awkward places we do choose in which to propose to one another!' remarked Mr. Beaumaris

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