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

- Georgette Heyer

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

- Georgette Heyer

But it is only in epic tragedies that gloom is unrelieved. In real life tragedy and comedy are so intermingled that when one is most wretched ridicul…

- Georgette Heyer

When fate is got it in for you, there is no limit to what you may have to put up with.

- Georgette Heyer

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

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

I think myself I ought to be shot for writing such nonsense.... But it's unquestionably good escapist literature and I think I should rather like it …

- Georgette Heyer

I remember only what interests me.

- Georgette Heyer

The more enchanted the idyll, greater must be the pain of its ending.

- Georgette Heyer