As soon as one promises not to do something, it becomes the one thing above all others that one most wishes to do.
Georgette HeyerPeople who start a sentence with personally (and they're always women) ought to be thrown to the lions. It's a repulsive habit.
Georgette HeyerThere is a worse tyranny than that of ill-treatment. It is the tyranny of tears, vapours, appeals to feelings of affection and of gratitude!
Georgette HeyerThe Marquis believed himself to be hardened against flattery. He thought that he had experienced every variety, but he discovered that he was mistaken: the blatantly worshipful look in the eyes of a twelve-year-old, anxiously raised to his, was new to him, and it pierced his defences.
Georgette Heyer