Don't you dare call me arrogant!If ever I had any at all-which I deny!- how much could I possibly have left after having been ridden over rough-shod by you and Thomas, do you imagine?
Georgette HeyerWell, you have the right to make a sacrifice of yourself, but I'll be damned if I'll let you sacrifice me!
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 HeyerDo you recall Fred Merriville?โ She stared at him. โFred Merriville? Pray, what has he to say to anything?โ โThe poor fellow has nothing to say: heโs dead, alas!
Georgette HeyerMy dear girl, don't talk nonsense to me! You're lazy, that's all that's wrong with you. Why don't you take up social work?
Georgette HeyerPerhaps,โ murmured his lordship, โI yielded to a compassionate impulse.โ โA what?โ gasped his best friend. โOh, did you think I never did so?โ said his lordship, the satirical glint in his eyes extremely pronounced. โYou wrong me! I do, sometimesโnot frequently, of course, but every now and then!
Georgette Heyer