Regency Set Downs Quotes

“Iris is not pleasant to live with when she is in ill humor and Daisy is not pleasant to live with when she is in good humor.”
― Julia Quinn, The Secrets of Sir Richard Kenworthy

“Lady Stanton? No one, least of me, plays attention to the remarks of the vulgar.”
― M.C. Beaton, Lady Fortescue Steps Out

“Ginny looked at him in a puzzled way. “Are you in the habit of saying things you don’t mean?”
“There is a certain type of wit called sarcasm,” said Lord Gerald loftily.
Ginny’s brow cleared. “Oh now I understand” she said. “You were just being nasty.”
― Marion Chesney, Ginny