Georgette Heyer

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! ↗

— Georgette Heyer

#men #thoughts #women #humor

It was growing late, and though one might stand on the brink of a deep chasm of disaster, one was still obliged to dress for dinner. ↗

— Georgette Heyer

#manners #manners

I feel an almost overwhelming interest in the methods of daylight abduction employed by the modern youth. ↗

— Georgette Heyer

#humor #modern-youth #humor

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

— Georgette Heyer

#love

You may have married her, but she is mine. Do you think I shall let you take her? She may be ten times your wife, but, by God, you shall never have her. ↗

— Georgette Heyer

#romantic

I comfort myself with the reflection that your wife will possibly be able to curb your desire--I admit, a natural one for the most part--to exterminate your fellows. ↗

— Georgette Heyer

#nature

Well, you have the right to make a sacrifice of yourself, but I'll be damned if I'll let you sacrifice me! ↗

— Georgette Heyer

#sacrifice #love

People who start a sentence with personally (and they're always women) ought to be thrown to the lions. It's a repulsive habit. ↗

— Georgette Heyer

#humor #women #death

I do not want a boy. I only want Monseigneur! ↗

— Georgette Heyer

#love

[...]if you talk any more flummery to me, Frederica, I shall give you one of my—er—icy set-downs!”(Alverstoke) ↗

— Georgette Heyer

#icy #stammer #humor