"Eccentricity may be diverting, Mama, but it is……" — Georgette Heyer
"Eccentricity may be diverting, Mama, but it is out of place in a wife: certainly in my wife!"
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95 Quotes by Georgette Heyer
Georgette Heyer has 95 quotes on this site.
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When fate is got it in for you, there is no limit to what you may have to put up…
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Judging from the letters I've received from obviously feeble-minded persons who wish I would write another These Old Shades, it…
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There is nothing so mortifying as to fall in love with someone who does not share one's sentiments.
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I remember only what interests me.
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Spread the glad tidings that it will not disappoint Miss Heyer's many admirers. Judging from the letters I've received from…
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But it is only in epic tragedies that gloom is unrelieved. In real life tragedy and comedy are so intermingled…
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She bowed her head, clasping her hands tightly before her upon the arm of his chair, for her heart yearned…
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Randall laid his hand on Stella's, but only to remove it from his sleeve. "My precious, you really must have…
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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…
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I feel an almost overwhelming interest in the methods of daylight abduction employed by the modern youth.
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It was growing late, and though one might stand on the brink of a deep chasm of disaster, one was…
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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…
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More Diverting Quotes
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It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.
— James Allen
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Theology, by diverting the attention of men from this life to another, and by endeavoring to coerce all men into…
— Elbert Hubbard
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Some may find them merely diverting melodies. Others may find them incitements to Red revolution. And who will say if…
— Pete Seeger
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Spain has been massively diverting capital from the private sector into politically favored environmental projects for the better part of…
— Ron Paul
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If we are not serving Jesus, and if he is not in our thoughts and hearts, then the things of…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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At first we will only skim the surface of the earth like young starlings, but soon, emboldened by practice and…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Books did not need to be beautiful back in the Fifties, because nothing else was beautiful back then. Books were…
— Joe Queenan
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I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only…
— Isaac Newton
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It is a fearful mistake for us to neglect the study of the Bible to investigate theories that are misleading,…
— Ellen G. White
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There are some people who read too much: the bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as…
— H. L. Mencken
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The most loathsome materialism is not the kind people usually think of, but the sort that attempts to let dead…
— Albert Camus
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Any weapon touched by a woman, even by accident, must be cleansed with both water and prayer so that her…
— Alice Hoffman
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