Regency Buck Quotes

“What is your name?"
"Again sir, that is no concern of yours."
"A mystery," he said. "I shall have to call you Clorinda."
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"Judith! What the devil? exclaimed Peregrine. "Has there been an accident?"
"Judith," repeated the gentleman of the curricle pensively. "I prefer Clorinda.”
― Georgette Heyer, Regency Buck

“If I were a man I would kill you!"
"If you were a man we wouldn't be having this conversation!”
― Georgette Heyer, Regency Buck

“Lord Worth: 'I think you may be quite useful to me. The heiress has a brother.'
Captain Audley: 'I am not the least interested in her brother,' objected the Captain.”
― Georgette Heyer, Regency Buck

“There is always a thought of marriage between a single female and a personable gentleman, if not in his mind, quite certainly in hers.”
― Georgette Heyer, Regency Buck

“Miss Taverner took the whip and reins in her hands, and mounted into the driving-seat, scorning assistance.
"Take your orders from Miss Taverner, Henry," said the Earl, getting up beside his ward.
"Me Lord, you are never going to let a female drive us?" said Henry almost tearfully. "What about my pride?"
"Swallow it, Henry," replied the Earl amicably.”
― Georgette Heyer, Regency Buck

“One of a guardian's privileges is to be seen talking to his ward without occasioning remark,' he said. 'I can assure you he has not many.'

She set her hand on the stair-rail, preparing to follow Lady Jersey. She looked a little arch. 'Is your position as my guardian so painful, sir?'

'It is a damnable position,' he said deliberately, and turned away, leaving her staring.”
― Georgette Heyer, Regency Buck

“You need not be afraid that I have just fallen in love yesterday. I am quite sure of my mind in this. A month is fully long enough for that.'

'Or a day or an hour,' said the Earl musingly.”
― Georgette Heyer, Regency Buck

“He seems an agreeable creature. But that is how it is always! The less eligible a man is the more delightful he is bound to be! You may depend upon it.”
― Georgette Heyer, Regency Buck

“I am not interested in you or in your servant!' snapped Miss Taverner.

'That is what I like in you,' he agreed, and sprang lightly up into the curricle, and stepped across her to the box-seat. 'Now let me show you how to hit me.”
― Georgette Heyer, Regency Buck

“I have not always appeared to be sensible of the care you have bestowed on me, but I know now that it has been unceasing.”
― Georgette Heyer, Regency Buck

“You see, I am not pretty, not in the least, never was, and so I have to be odd. Nothing for it! It answers delightfully.”
― Georgette Heyer, Regency Buck

“Nothing is so destructive of female charms as contact with fresh air.”
― Georgette Heyer, Regency Buck

“Excellent, Miss Taverner!' murmured Mr Brummel. 'You are so apt a pupil that if I were only ten years younger I believe I should propose for your hand.'

She laughed. 'I cannot suppose it possible. Did you ever propose to any lady, sir?'

'Yes, once,' replied Mr Brummel in a voice of gentle melancholy. 'But it came to nothing. I discovered that she actually ate cabbage, so what could I do but cut the connection?”
― Georgette Heyer, Regency Buck

“There is little likelihood of gaining my consent to your marriage with anyone whom I can at the moment call to mind.'

'Except,' said Miss Taverner through her teeth, 'yourself!'

'Except, of course, myself,' he agreed suavely.

'And do you suppose, Lord Worth, that there is any great likelihood of my marrying you?' inquired Judith in a sleek, deceptive voice.

He raised his brows. 'Until I ask you to marry me, Miss Taverner, not the least likelihood,' he replied gently.”
― Georgette Heyer, Regency Buck