Alverstoke Quotes

#1. And now I wish I hadn't been civil, because he says he shall not despair! He is as stupid as Endymion!"
"No, no!" said Alverstoke soothingly. "Nobody could be as stupid as Endymion!

Georgette Heyer

#2. May I have a workshop at Alver? For experiments? If I promise faithfully not to blow the house up? If you please, Cousin Alverstoke ... ?

Georgette Heyer

#3. [ ... ]if you talk any more flummery to me, Frederica, I shall give you one of my - er - icy set-downs!(Alverstoke)

Georgette Heyer

#4. Part of the trouble is that I've never properly understood that some disasters accumulate, that they don't all land like a child out of an apple tree.

Janet Burroway

#5. I haven't really written my plays and books - I've heard them. The stories are there already, singing in your genes and in your blood.

Sebastian Barry

#6. What I am after, above all, is expression.

Henri Matisse

#7. You and the character just become the same person in a way. There isn't really a character; it's just you creating this illusion.

Andrew J. West

#8. I know you lawyers can with ease, Twist words and meanings as you please; That language, by your skill made pliant, Will bend to favour every client; That 'tis the fee directs the sense, To make out either side's pretense.

John Gay

#9. You don't understand!" she exclaimed bitterly.

"That," said his lordship, with a touch of acidity, "is a foolish accusation which lacks even the saving grace of originality! Every generation, my child, has said, or thought, that the preceding one was devoid of understanding or experience.

Georgette Heyer

#10. Buffoons, buffoons! One can play any tune on them!

Luigi Pirandello