As soon as one promises not to do something, it becomes the one thing above all others that one most wishes to do.
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
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
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
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…
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
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 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 …
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
People who start a sentence with personally (and they're always women) ought to be thrown to the lions. It's a repulsive habit.
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
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.
When fate is got it in for you, there is no limit to what you may have to put up with. - Georgette Heyer
When fate is got it in for you, there is no limit to what you may have to put up with.
I remember only what interests me. - Georgette Heyer
I remember only what interests me.
The more enchanted the idyll, greater must be the pain of its ending. - Georgette Heyer
The more enchanted the idyll, greater must be the pain of its ending.
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