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“As soon as one promises not to do something, it becomes the one thing above all others that one most wishes to do.”

Quelle: Venetia

“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!”

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Georgette Heyer

Quelle: Powder And Patch

“There isso mortifying as to fall in love with someone who does not share one's sentiments.”

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Georgette Heyer buch Venetia

Quelle: Venetia

“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.”

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Georgette Heyer buch April Lady

Quelle: April Lady

“No one could have called Mr. Standen quick-witted, but the possession of three sisters had considerably sharpened his instinct of self-preservation.”

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Georgette Heyer buch Cotillion

Quelle: Cotillion

“Do you forget that I am your sister?”
“No; I’ve never been granted the opportunity to forget it.”

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Georgette Heyer buch Frederica

Quelle: Frederica

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

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Georgette Heyer buch Devil's Cub

Quelle: Devil's Cub

“She decided that her wisest course would be to put him out of her mind. After reaching this conclusion she lay thinking about him until at last she fell asleep.”

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Georgette Heyer buch The Nonesuch

Quelle: The Nonesuch

“[…]my memory is reasonably good—unlike yours, dear sir!”
“Mine is erratic,” he said imperturbably. “I remember only what interests me.”

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Georgette Heyer buch Frederica

Quelle: Frederica

“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.”

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Georgette Heyer buch Devil's Cub

Quelle: Devil's Cub

“What I mean is, like you to have everything you want. Wished it was me, that's all”

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Georgette Heyer buch Cotillion

Quelle: Cotillion

“Remind me one day to teach you how to achieve a sneer, Hugh. Yours is too pronounced, and thus but a grimace. It should be but a faint curl of the lips.”

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Georgette Heyer buch These Old Shades

Quelle: These Old Shades

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

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Georgette Heyer buch Black Sheep

Quelle: Black Sheep

“And now I wish I hadn’t been civil, because he says he shall not despair! He is as stupid as Endymion!”
“No, no!” said Alverstoke soothingly. “Nobody could be as stupid as Endymion!”

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Georgette Heyer buch Frederica

Quelle: Frederica

“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.”

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Georgette Heyer buch Devil's Cub

Quelle: Devil's Cub

“You know what I think? Fate! That's what it is fate! There's a thing that comes after a fellow:got a name, but I forgot what it is. Creeps up behind him, and puts him in the basket when he ain't expecting it.”

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Georgette Heyer buch Friday's Child

Quelle: Friday's Child

“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!”

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Georgette Heyer buch Cotillion

Quelle: Cotillion

“His Grace was at her side, and lifted her down from the chair.
"My enfant," he said, "duchesses do not dance on chairs, nor do they call their brothers 'imbécile'."
Léonie's twinkled irrepressibly.
"I do," she said firmly.”

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Georgette Heyer buch These Old Shades

Quelle: These Old Shades

“You are an atrocious person! Since the day I met you I have become steadily more depraved.”

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Georgette Heyer buch The Nonesuch

Quelle: The Nonesuch

“Randall laid his hand on Stella's, but only to remove it from his sleeve. "My precious, you really must have some regard for my clothes," he said with gentle reproach. "Much as I love you, I cannot permit you to maul this particular coat.”

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Georgette Heyer

Quelle: Behold, Here's Poison

“Will you marry me, vile and abominable girl that you are?

Yes, but, mind, it only to save my neck from being wrung!”

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Georgette Heyer buch The Grand Sophy

Quelle: The Grand Sophy

“Léonie, you will do well to consider. You are not the first woman in my life."

She smiled through her tears. "Monseigneur, I would so much rather be the last woman than the first,” she said.”

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Georgette Heyer buch These Old Shades

Quelle: These Old Shades

“How very awkward places we do choose in which to propose to one another!' remarked Mr. Beaumaris”

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Georgette Heyer buch Arabella

Quelle: Arabella

“The charm of your society, my Sparrow, lies in not knowing what you will say next – though one rapidly learns to expect the worst!”

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Georgette Heyer buch Sylvester

Quelle: Sylvester

“Talking to you is like -- like talking to an eel!"

"No, is it? I've never tried to talk to an eel. Isn't it as waste of time?"

"Not such a waste of time as talking to you!”

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Georgette Heyer buch Black Sheep

Quelle: Black Sheep

“I don't know how it is… but you seem to think me something wonderful, and indeed, I am not.”

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Georgette Heyer buch The Masqueraders

Quelle: The Masqueraders

“O God, I love you to the edge of madness, Venetia, but I'm not mad yet--not so mad that I don't know how disastrous it might be to you--to us both! You don't realize what an advantage I should be taking of your innocence!”

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Georgette Heyer buch Venetia

Quelle: Venetia

“My house seems remarkably full of people," he observed. "Is it possible we were expected.”

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Georgette Heyer buch These Old Shades

Quelle: These Old Shades

“Is it not unsupportable to be held down to a canter when you long to gallop for miles?”

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Georgette Heyer buch The Grand Sophy

Quelle: The Grand Sophy

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

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Georgette Heyer

Quelle: Death in the Stocks

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