405 Quotes by Georgette Heyer

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!

But not even Mrs Underhill’s evident admiration reconciled him to the prospect of dining in her house. He described her as a vulgar mushroom, and wondered that his cousins should not have kept her at a proper distance.

My dear girl, you don't consent to an abduction! You consent to an elopement, and I knew you wouldn't do that.

If I must consort with rogues [...] I own I like them to be in the grand manner.

From that date she had had no other chaperone than Nurse, but, as she pointed out to Lady Denny, since she neither went into society nor received guests at Undershaw it was hard to see what use a chaperon would be to her.

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.

Well, I've never written a line of poetry in my life: it is not my way! But if I *did* write about you I shouldn't call you a paltry daffodil! I should liken you to a rose--one of those yellow ones, with a deep golden heart, and a sweet scent!" said Sir Bonamy, warming to the theme."Nonsense!" she said briskly. "You would be very much more likely to call me a plum partridge, or a Spanish fritter!

Well, I've never written a line of poetry in my life: it is not my way! But if I *did* write about you I shouldn't call you a paltry daffodil! I should liken you to a rose--one of those yellow ones, with a deep golden heart, and a sweet scent!" said Sir Bonamy, warming to the theme."Nonsense!" she said briskly. "You would be very much more likely to call me a plump partridge, or a Spanish fritter!

She was up again at that."In love? You? Nonsense! Nonsense! Nonsense! You do not know what the word means. You are like a--like a fish, with no more love in you than a fish, and no more heart than a fish, and--""Spare me the rest, I beg. I am very clammy, I make no doubt, but you will at least accord me more brain than a fish?