Frasi di Georgette Heyer

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

“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 if I were sitting in an air-raid shelter or recovering from flu.”

“She succumbed to the eternal feminine passion for bargains.”

“Do you know, I think that of all your idiosyncrasies that choke you give, when you are determined not to laugh, is the one that most enchants me.”

“A certain cynicism, born of the life she has led; a streak of strange wisdom; the wistfulness behind the gaiety; sometimes fear; and nearly always the memory of loneliness that hurts the soul.”

“This, said Damerel wrathfully, is the second time you have walked in just as I am about to propose to your sister!”

“[…]if you talk any more flummery to me, Frederica, I shall give you one of my—er—icy set-downs!”(Alverstoke)”

“… Gentlemen don't understand anything, however wise they may be.”