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 HeyerWill you marry me, vile and abominable girl that you are? Yes, but, mind, it only to save my neck from being wrung!
Georgette HeyerMiss Grantham gave a shriek. 'You have trifled with me!' she said, into the folds of her handkerchief. 'You promised me marriage, and now you mean to cast me off for Another!
Georgette HeyerI 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!
Georgette Heyer