Georgette Heyer
10 quotes
Biography
"You're only a man! You've not our gifts! I can tell you! Why, a woman can think of a hundred different things at once, all them contradictory!"
"My house seems remarkably full of people,"he observed. "Is it possible we were expected."
"You will like her,"he persisted. "Egad, she's after your own heart, maman! She shot me in the arm.""Voyons, do you think that is what I like?"
"I like very few people nowadays; in fact, the number of persons whom I cordially dislike increases almost hourly."
"I daresay Freddy might not be a great hand at slaying dragons—but one has not the smallest need of a man who can kill dragons!"
"As soon as one promises not to do something, it becomes the one thing above all others that one most wishes to do."
"I don’t think I am green. It’s true I only know what I’ve read in books, but I’ve read a great many books."
"Nothing more likely,"said Hannasyde. "I've got to try and rattle him.""It's him that'll do the rattling,"said the Sergeant darkly. "he's the nearest thing to a snake I've seen outside of the Zoo."
"Frederica tells the park-keepers that Lufra is a purebred "Barcelona collie". Alverstoke catches on and says "No, Frederica! I TOLD you--it is a HOUND, from Baluchistan!" She: "Oh, you might have mentioned it was from ASIA! Very remote; the dog had to be smuggled out because the natives were hostile."
"When fate's got it in for you there's no limit to what you may have to put up with."