405 Quotes by Georgette Heyer

I may have said that I wanted to have an adventure,” replied Miss Thane. “But I never said that I wanted to be murdered in my bed.

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!

Positively you overwhelm me!’ my lord said. ‘You oppress me with kindness, sir.

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.

Meg, as good-natured as her mother and brother, would have been amiable to anyone for whom her kindness had been solicited. Had she found herself confronted by a dazzling blonde she would not have spurned Kitty; but it could not be denied that the discovery that Miss Charing was a brunette immediately confirmed her in her conviction that she would like her prodigiously.

If you mention Bella’s name to me again, Gil, I am likely to do you a mischief!′ Sherry warned him. ‘I never cared the snap of my fingers for that wretched girl, and if you are not assured of that, ask her! Why, God save the mark, she may be a beauty, but give me my Kitten! Bella, with her airs and her graces, and her miffs, and her curst sharp tongue! No, I thank you! What’s more, no man who had lived with Kitten would look twice at the Beauty!

Levity was ever your besetting sin,’ he said severely. ‘Let me tell you that it is not at all becoming in a female! It leads you into talking a deal of improper nonsense.

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.

Do you know, it has of late become an ambition of mine to hear my name on your lips instead of my title.