Georgette Heyer Quotes

United Kingdom, Novelist
August 16, 1902 – July, 4, 1974.

Georgette Heyer was an English historical romance and detective fiction novelist. Her writing career began in 1921, when she turned a story for her younger brother into the novel The Black Moth. In 1925 Heyer married George Ronald Rougier, a mining engineer. The couple spent several years living in Tanganyika Territory and Macedonia before returning to England in 1929.

There is nothing so mortifying as to fall in love with someone who does not share one's sentiments.

Georgette Heyer
Eccentricity may be diverting, Mama, but it is out of place in a wife: certainly in my wife!

Georgette Heyer
- Place
- Eccentricity

My dear girl, you don't consent to an abduction! You consent to an elopement, and I knew you wouldn't do that.

Georgette Heyer
- Knew
- Consent
- Abduction
When fate is got it in for you, there is no limit to what you may have to put up with.

Georgette Heyer
- Fate
- Limit
- Put Up
The more enchanted the idyll, greater must be the pain of its ending.

Georgette Heyer
- Pain
- Ending
- Idyll
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
- Habit
- Start
- Sentence
The society of my relatives can only be enjoyed with frequent intervals.

Georgette Heyer
Well, you have the right to make a sacrifice of yourself, but I'll be damned if I'll let you sacrifice me!

Georgette Heyer
- Right
- Sacrifice
- Let

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
- Wishes
- To Do
- Promises
You're only a man! You've not our gifts! I can tell you! Why, a woman can think of a hundred different things at once, all them contradictory!

Georgette Heyer