Top 100 Georgette Heyer Quotes
#2. But where is my son? Where is the beautiful Miss Merriot?
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#3. 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!
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#4. The end of the idyll was implicit in the beginning: I at least knew that, though you might not. And also that the more enchanted the idyll the greater must be the pain of its ending. That won't endure. Hearts don't really break, you know.
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#6. Yes, Nicky, but you think I know everything because I never tell you anything I am not quite certain of
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#7. The devil you have! There, it is off at last! You may have perceived that I have been tugging at your ring for the last ten minutes. It should, of course, have been cast at your feet some time ago, but the confounded thing was always too tight. Take it!
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#8. This, said Damerel wrathfully, is the second time you have walked in just as I am about to propose to your sister!
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#9. He bowed, still holding her hand, and then, without a word, released it, and marched out, very dignified. It was another fine tragic effect, but Cleone, when the door closed behind him, broke into an hysterical laugh. She was rather amazed, and a little apprehensive.
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#10. Do you forget that I am your sister?"
"No; I've never been granted the opportunity to forget it.
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#11. Why, her father would turn in his grave
well, as a matter of fact, he was cremated, but what I mean is, if he hadn't been he would have. [Ermyntrude]
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#12. Lady Denville replied with dignity that she had never felt the smallest preference for either of her twin sons.
'Of course not! How should you, when you can't tell us apart?' said Mr Fancot
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#13. 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 would confide in me, and you see I was quite right.
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#14. She had herself been sadly disappointed, for she had thought him a man of sense, certainly not one to be succumbing to childish ailments at inopportune moments.
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#15. I didn't smuggle the dog into the country; I merely caused him to be smuggled out of Baluchistan.
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#16. No one had ever looked at her just like that before, and it had the effect upon her of making her feel, for perhaps the first time in her life, a strong desire to lay the burden of her cares upon other shoulders. Captain Staple's were certainly broad enough to bear them.
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#17. Do you like pets better than toys and books? I always did, so I thought very likely you would too.
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#18. What I mean is, like you to have everything you want. Wished it was me, that's all
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#19. Do you know, I think that of all your idiosyncrasies that choke you give, when you are determined not to laugh, is the one that most enchants me.
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#21. 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 not been so excessively ugly!
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#22. Your strength lies in being precisely the kind of man who can procure one a chair when it has come on to rain.
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#24. I wish you did return my regard," he said. "More than I have ever wished anything in my life! Perhaps you may yet learn to do so: I should warn you that I don't easily despair!
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#25. The thought flashed into her mind that she beheld the embodiment of her ideal. It was as instantly banished;
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#26. 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 cakes.
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#27. So off had gone John to the wars again. But he had not remained for long in the position of a humble volunteer. Colonel Clifton, commanding the 1st Regiment of Dragoons, no sooner heard that Crazy Jack was back then he enrolled him as an extra aide-de-camp.
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#28. My heart aches for you! But don't despair! I am persuaded you will come about! Recollect what the poet says! I'm not sure which poet, but very likely it was Shakespeare, because it generally is, though why I can't imagine!
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#29. No one could have called Mr. Standen quick-witted, but the possession of three sisters had considerably sharpened his instinct of self-preservation.
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#30. It is so stupid to say, as Edward does, that Aubrey ought to like what he detests, because other boys do. Aubrey is himself, and no one can alter him, so what is the use of saying he ought, when he won't?
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#31. Eugenia never wears modish gowns. She says there are more important things to think of than one's dresses.'
'What a stupid thing to say!' remarked Sophy. 'Naturally there are, but not, I hold, when one is dressing for dinner.
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#32. Well, you have the right to make a sacrifice of yourself, but I'll be damned if I'll let you sacrifice me!
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#33. Does it ever occur to you, Mama, that my grandfather is a lunatic?
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#34. Yes, but we do not know that he snores, my love,' Lady Ombersley pointed out. 'Indeed, we may be almost certain that he does not, for his manners are so very gentleman-like!' 'A man who would contract the mumps,' declared Cecilia, 'would do anything!
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#35. 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.
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#36. No, no I wouldn't annoy him for the world!" Aubrey said. "I do think he was quite pleased to see his little Aubrey, don't you? I have always regarded myself as the feminine influence in the family and quite definitely beneficent.
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#37. The society of my relatives can only be enjoyed with frequent intervals.
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#38. Mrs Hendred was a very pretty woman of great good-nature and much less than commonsense.
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#39. A man who would contract the mumps,' declared Cecilia, 'would do anything!' Lady Ombersley saw nothing unreasonable in this pronouncement, nor was she surprised that his lordship's unromantic behaviour had given Cecilia a distaste for him. She
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#40. How very odd, to be sure!' 'What is?' She walked on, her brow a little furrowed. 'Wishing to kiss someone you never saw before in your life. It seems quite mad-brained to me, besides showing a sad want of particularity.
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#41. That sort of thing always leads to trouble! It is all kindness, and I am sure I am quite as sorry for Miss Broughty as anyone, but one cannot make a friend of everybody in distressing circumstances!
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#42. Entertaining females with accounts of jug-bitten maunderings is one of my favourite pastimes.' He
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#43. I find it a marvellous circumstance, cousin, that no one has yet strangled you!
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#44. Horatia said eagerly: "Oh, you will take m-me instead?"
"No," said Rule, with a faint smile. "I won't do that. But I will engage not to marry your sister. It's not necessary to offer me an exchange, my poor child."
"B-but it is!" said Horatia vigorously. "One of us m-must marry you!
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#45. Have you any brothers?" demanded Mr. Beaumaris.
"No," said Mr. Scunthorpe, blinking at him. "Only child."
"You relieve my mind. Offer my congratulations to your parents!
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#46. odd in it: any sensible man must say it!' She laughed, but said: 'No, you are unjust! I have never yet done
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#47. Lady Theresa prophesied disaster for all concerned, and hoped that when Serena was dying an old maid she would remember these words, and be sorry. Meanwhile she remained her affectionate aunt.
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#48. I wish to God I might induce her to mind me!' he ejaculated.
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#49. If the worst comes to the worst I can always take Evelyn's place, can't I?
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#50. Nothing is so destructive of female charms as contact with fresh air.
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#51. There was something very taking in her face which owed nothing to the excellence of her features: an expression of sweetness, a sparkle of irrepressible fun, an unusually open look, quite devoid of self-consciousness.
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#53. If you imagine that I have the smallest desire to receive your hand as a reward for having performed a difficult task to your satisfaction you're beside the bridge, my child! I've no fancy for a reluctant wife. I want your love, not your gratitude.
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#54. If I were you, I'd put up that pistol, Mr. Ottershaw,' said Hugo. 'Were you meaning to challenge the ghost with it? You'd catch cold if you did, you know. It's no crime that I ever heard of to caper about rigged up as a boggard.
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#55. I shall write an ode!" threatened Philip direfully.
"Ah no, that is too much!" cried De Vangrisse with feeling.
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#56. The sight which met her eyes held her frozen on the threshold, and the thought flashed across her mind that she knew now how it felt to die
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#57. Miss Allison realised with a slight sinking of the heart that she was to be made the recipient of confidences.
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#58. If someone would have the goodness to inform me whether I am assisting at a tragedy or a farce I should be grateful,
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#59. A man whose raiment attracted attention, had said Mr Brummell, was not a well-dressed man.
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#60. She was generally considered to be a pretty woman; and, since she was as good-natured as she was foolish, she was almost universally liked.
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#61. You've no more for me than I have for you."
Considerably disconcerted by this direct attack, she stammered: "How can you say so? When I am sure I have always been most sincerely attached to you!"
"You deceive yourself, sister: not to me, but to my purse!
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#62. No, but on the other hand you don't enact me Cheltenham tragedies when I've barely swallowed my breakfast.
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#63. The more enchanted the idyll, greater must be the pain of its ending.
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#65. Wonderful!" said the Duke. "We progress!"
"We ... ? Progress? You said we? Progress?"
"It seems I erred," Avon sighed. "We remain at the same place.
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#66. She succumbed to the eternal feminine passion for bargains.
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#67. I have seen what comes of being patient," Amanda said with a boding look. "And I have no opinion of it."
"What does come of it?" Inquired Sir Gareth.
"Nothing!
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#68. If I must consort with rogues [ ... ] I own I like them to be in the grand manner.
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#69. 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 didn't suspect that amongst so many a dozen or so may have slipped from your memory.
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#70. 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!
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#71. Oh, Randall, don't be such a vile beast!"
"I don't think much of that",he said critically. "Amiable snake was much better.
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#72. Julia stood for his youth, and the high hopes he had cherished; and although he might no longer yearn to possess her she would remain nostalgically dear to him while life endured.
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#74. 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.
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#75. Do you mean to tell me that Mr. Trevor read my letter?" demanded Lady Buxted indignantly. "Your secretary?"
"I employ him to read my letters," explained his lordship.(Alverstroke)
"Not those written by your nearest and dearest!"
"Oh, no, not them!" he agreed.
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#76. Will you marry me, vile and abominable girl that you are?
Yes, but, mind, it only to save my neck from being wrung!
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#77. O God, I love you to the edge of madness, Venetia, but I'm not mad yet
not so mad that I don't know how disastrous it might be to you
to us both! You don't realize what an advantage I should be taking of your innocence!
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#78. Don't you dare call me arrogant!If ever I had any at all-which I deny!- how much could I possibly have left after having been ridden over rough-shod by you and Thomas, do you imagine?
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#79. O God, Mama, I've made such a mull of it! What am I to do?
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#80. Martin,' interrupted Gervase, 'why were you stunned, kept in durance vile, and finally rolled into a sand-pit?
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#82. No, no, Kit, don't cry!' begged Freddy, putting his arm round her. 'Can't bear you not to be happy! I won't say another word. Never thought there was any hope for me. Just wanted to tell you.
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#83. Ten or twelve couples? No, no, Dassett would not be talking of red carpets and awnings for such a paltry affair as that!' said his lordship. These ominous words struck a chill into his wife's soul.
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#84. Nothing doing. I've no doubt you think I should look noble as a sacrifice. But I've never wanted to look noble, and I won't be made to.
Neville Fletcher
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#85. You will allow that one's curiosity must be aroused when one learns that a lady is prepared to elope to escape from advances one had not the least intention of making!
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#86. God knows I'm no saint, but I don't think I'm more of a sinner than any other man.
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#87. 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.
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#88. And that reminds me, Mama! I have just intercepted another of that puppy's floral offerings to my sister. This billet was attached to it. (Charles)
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#89. you had as well go rabbit-hunting with a dead ferret as try to get past his butler!
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#90. Pray, what's the nature of his trouble?" Prudence asked solicitously.
"Oh, cursed bad news, my boy. That old aunt of his from whom he has expectations has rallied, and they say she'll last another ten years. Poor old Devereux, y'know! Must try and raise his spirits.
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#92. Barham you may be, but there is one thing you have been which is certain!' He paused to let this sink in.
My lord did not seem to be greatly impressed. 'Oh, a number of things!' he assured his guest. 'Of course, there are a number of things I have not been, too.
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#93. The thought of his high and imposing father's regal progress to Harrowgate, and his very brief stay there, made Desford begin to chuckle again. He must remember, he told himself, to ask Poor Dear Papa, at a suitable moment, for his opinion of Harrowgate.
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#94. He took her face between his hands, turning it up, and looking down at her for a moment before he kissed her. "I do love you, Jenny," he said gently. "Very much indeed
you are part of my life. Julia was never that-only a boy's impractical dream.
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#95. A certain cynicism, born of the life she has led; a streak of strange wisdom; the wistfulness behind the gaiety; sometimes fear; and nearly always the memory of loneliness that hurts the soul.
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#96. Dashed if I didn't receive a letter from him this morning! Yes, and what's more, I had to pay sixpence for it, which I'd as lief not have done. It ain't that I grudge sixpence, but what I mean is, why the deuce should I have to give sixpence for a thing I'd as soon not have?
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#97. In my experience, the human mind, when under the influence of fear, rushes round in frantic circles.
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#98. If people are only kind to me I'm sure I am the last person to quarrel with anyone.' His
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#99. On the toodle last night, and not feeling quite the thing today?
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#100. What is your name?"
"Again sir, that is no concern of yours."
"A mystery," he said. "I shall have to call you Clorinda."
...
"Judith! What the devil? exclaimed Peregrine. "Has there been an accident?"
"Judith," repeated the gentleman of the curricle pensively. "I prefer Clorinda.
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