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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 36445b2 | 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. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 251f576 | Creo que jamas aconsejaria a nadie que se diera por vencido, porque no soporto esa actitud tan debil. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 7264304 | You see, I am not pretty, not in the least, never was, and so I have to be odd. Nothing for it! It answers delightfully. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| d8949fe | Sir Tristram was contemplating with grim misgiving the prospect of encountering vivacity at the breakfast-table for the rest of his life... | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 0518e7a | Raoul felt suddenly impatient. 'Heart of a man, if the Lady Elfrida will trust herself to me I will have her in spite of every customary usage!' 'There spoke the Norman,' Edgar said softly. 'Marauding, grasping, marking his prey! | norman-conquest william-the-conqueror | Georgette Heyer | |
| 78ecc33 | He then, with great presence of mind, put a stop to any further recriminations by kissing her; and his indignant betrothed, apparently feeling that he was too deeply sunk in depravity to be reclaimable, abandoned (for the time being, at all events) any further attempt to bring him to a sense of his iniquity. | kiss love regency-romance romance | Georgette Heyer | |
| 71dcf4e | Bustle about Noddy, or we shant be in time to snabble any of the lobster patties. | regency | Georgette Heyer | |
| a071a71 | Don't worry. Chivalry has practically no appeal for me whatsoever. -- Neville Fletcher | mystery | Georgette Heyer | |
| e2d21e9 | That's what you think of me, is it, girl?" said his lordship, a glint in his eyes. "Oh, no!" she responded, dropping him a curtsy. "It's what I , sir! You must know that my featherheaded Mama has taught me to behave with all the propriety in the world! To tell you what I of you would be to sink myself quite below reproach!" | banter bantering humor insults opinion personal-opinions wit | Georgette Heyer | |
| 96b527a | 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 | mystery | Georgette Heyer | |
| 114bb94 | 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." | Georgette Heyer | ||
| cdf68c9 | As for Miss Merriville, Mr Trevor felt that she was very well able to take care of herself. He had been dazzled by her beautiful companion, but he retained a vague impression of a self-possessed female, with a slightly aquiline nose, and an air of friendly assurance. He did not think that she would be easily taken-in. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 54b9c93 | A jaw like a mastiff's, a frame like a giant's, eyes like two daggers, a smile like a tiger's snarl,"Bernard murmured. "Aye, he is all that!!" Master Herbert said."A murrain be on him! And when I came to him,what did I do? I did bow in all politeness, yet stiffly withal to show him I'd not brook his surliness." "I did hear ye did bow so low that your head came below your knees,"Bernard said." | humour | Georgette Heyer | |
| 8a255b2 | You've never been in a scrape yet but what it came about by accident. The thing is, no one else has these accidents. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 4cdabd6 | Read that!" commanded madame dramatically, and handed her a crumpled sheet of paper. It contained a brief message in Juliana's sprawling characters: "My dear Tante, pray do not be in a taking, but I have gone with Vidal. I have No Time to write more, for I am in Desperate Haste. Juliana." "But--but it is not possible!" stammered Leonie, growing quite pale" -- | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 94e3537 | What do you mean to do when you reach Lacy Manor?' asked Sir Horace, regarding him in some amusement. 'Wring Sophy's neck!' said Mr Rivenhall savagely. 'Well, you don't need my help for that, my dear boy!' said Sir Horace, settling himself more comfortably in his chair. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 8838891 | Nothing is so destructive of female charms as contact with fresh air. | female | Georgette Heyer | |
| 851309b | Entertaining females with accounts of jug-bitten maunderings is one of my favourite pastimes. | sarcasm | Georgette Heyer | |
| 0d7e360 | _ ?Y si me caso con vos, mi senor? ?Me dejareis seguir mi camino? ?No vendreis a mi lado si yo no lo deseo? ? No os enfadareis conmigo ni sereis mi tiran o?Te lo juro _ dijo el. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| eca1a82 | Next you will say that you don't intend to have more than one house in the country!' 'Nay, I shan't say that! I want one in Leicestershire.' 'Oh, in that case there's no more to be said, for I've set my heart on one in the moon!' 'You don't mean that, love! Nay then, you can't have thought!' he expostulated. 'It's much too far from town! | Georgette Heyer | ||
| aeca2b4 | The thought flashed into her mind that she beheld the embodiment of her ideal. It was as instantly banished; | Georgette Heyer | ||
| ca42efc | 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. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 46ca368 | I'm not weird,' Elle said defensively. 'I mean in a good way. All the best people are.' He swallowed, as if he were thinking carefully. Elle saw he was a little bit drunk. 'You've got staying power. Like with the Georgette Heyers. Reading all of them, getting obsessive about them. And you know, much better to be obsessed with crummy romance books than, er - hard-core porn, or something. | wired-habits | Harriet Evans | |
| e56ab8f | In my experience, the human mind, when under the influence of fear, rushes round in frantic circles. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| b37042a | I too have been badly deceived in myself," he said, shaking his head. "Would you believe it?--I had no notion that I was such a monster of inhumanity as I have proved myself to be" | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 1cc343d | Really, I don't know what the world is coming to if I am to be suspected of staring in at windows! | Georgette Heyer | ||
| a07e7a3 | When I think of all the pretty and lovely girls who have done their best to attach him, and he tells me that he has offered for an insipid female who has neither fortune nor any extraordinary degree of beauty, besides being stupidly shy and dowdy, I - oh, I could go into strong hysterics! | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 304dde7 | Lady Winwood being denied, the morning caller inquired with some anxiety for Miss Winwood, or, in fact, for any of the young ladies. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 9947f3c | Well, have you a tongue in your head?' 'I have,' responded Hugo, 'but I was never one to give my head for washing.' 'You're not such a fool as you look,' commented his lordship. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 6be56fb | finding that she was determined to get to the bottom of what seemed to him a very trivial affair, extricated himself without hesitation or compunction by advising her to apply to Vincent for information, since he was the instigator of the quarrel. Before he could make good his retreat, however, he was incensed and appalled by a command to go immediately to Vincent's room, and to inform him that his mama desired to have speech with him befor.. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 9e6ccc4 | It was this impulsive utterance which made Mrs Chartley say, later: 'My dear John, I marvel at your countenancing this most improper dance! When they went down the room together, with his left hand holding her right one above their heads, his right hand was clasping her waist! | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 3742a73 | Dashed if I don't think he's begun to get queer in his attic! Well, what I mean is, hubble-bubble! I don't set up as one of these clever coves, but I've got more sense in my knowledge-box than to say such an addle-brained thing as that! Seems to me it don't make a ha'porth of difference whether you keep the dashed mill, or whether you don't, because that's where all your gingerbread came from, whichever way you look at it. And don't you tel.. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 0cb4385 | I didn't make my face, so why shouldn't I say it's beautiful? Everyone else does! | Georgette Heyer | ||
| fa517a7 | Oh Lord! Don't, don't start rhapsodising over that cod again, darling! I can't bear it and I know you are going to!" She laughed. "You don't understand. It was because it was so typically English." | homesick | Georgette Heyer | |
| 0750d43 | There was nothing in store at Undershaw for his lordship but a set-down, but it was disappointing to be granted no opportunity to deliver this. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| f82b1cc | Why are Georgette Heyer's covers so naff? When you think of all the exciting things that happen - abductions, false identities, wild horseback chases - the front of the book nearly always shows a woman in a ballgown, simpering sweetly up at a man. | Elly Griffiths | ||
| 2cb38a5 | I always agree on trivial points,' replied Francis. 'It saves trouble. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| 2a10ecb | These were all things which a youth chafing against the restrictions of a polite age admired: but when he met them in a rival he bitterly resented them, because he knew himself to be at a disadvantage, playing the Corsair's role in front of the Corsair himself. Had | Georgette Heyer | ||
| b94a194 | 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. | lost-love regency-romance | Georgette Heyer | |
| 937b74b | Yes, and that puts me in mind of another thing I have to say to you! Why the devil don't you take better care of Nell? Did you get her out of a silly scrape? No, you didn't! did! All you did was put it into her head you thought she had only married you for your fortune, when anyone but a gudgeon must have known she's too big a pea-goose to have enough sense to do anything of the kind! | regency | Georgette Heyer | |
| 136e13d | Do you know,' she said slowly, 'I have just thought - Mr Beaumaris, something tells me that Lady Bridlington may not like this dear little dog!' Mr Beaumaris waited in patient resignation for his certain fate to descend upon him. | Georgette Heyer | ||
| af3359c | Mr Warboys, without putting himself to the trouble of deciding which of the more ferocious animals his friend resembled, stated the matter in simple, and courageously frank terms. "You know, old fellow," he once told Martin,"if you had a tail, damme if you wouldn't lash it!" | regency | Georgette Heyer | |
| bc5b273 | The Marquis believed himself to be hardened against flattery. He thought that he had experienced every variety, but he discovered that he was mistaken: the blatantly worshipful look in the eyes of a twelve-year-old, anxiously raised to his, was new to him, and it pierced his defences. He was capable of giving the coolest of set-downs to any gushing female; and the advances of toadeaters he met with the most blistering of snubs; but even as .. | capitulation pleading | Georgette Heyer | |
| c764218 | If people are only kind to me I'm sure I am the last person to quarrel with anyone.' His | Georgette Heyer |