405 Quotes by Georgette Heyer

Dear Edward has given Fanny a chocolate-coloured coach with pale blue cushions. The wheat is picked out in blue.” He held the sheet at arm’s length. “It seems strange, but no doubt Fanny is right. I have not been in England for such a time... Ah, I beg her pardon. You will be relieved to hear, my dear Hugh, that the wheat still grows as it ever did. The wheels are picked out in blue.

After all, life was not made up of moments of exaltation, but of quite ordinary, everyday things.

He is clearly unhinging.

I am not quite sober you know. In fact, I am drunk, but I cannot help feeling this is all a trifle, shall we say, irregular?

I’m beginning to wish you had to work for a living.

Do let me assure you that if ever Endymion should ask me to give a ball in his honour I shall take steps to have him placed under restraint!

Miss Grantham gave a shriek. ‘You have trifled with me!’ she said, into the folds of her handkerchief. ‘You promised me marriage, and now you mean to cast me off for Another!

There is nothing so mortifying as to fall in love with someone who does not share one’s sentiments.

You need have no fear. But were I to meet you, sir, you would lie dead at my feet within the space of five minutes. Possibly less. I do not know.” He appeared to give the matter his consideration.