Oh, 'tis not my qualities they object to! 'Tis my lack of vice.
Georgette HeyerThose fine eyes of hers had a disconcertingly direct gaze, and very often twinkled in a manner disturbing to male egotism. She had common-sense too, and what man wanted the plainly matter-of-fact, when he could enjoy instead Sophia's delicious folly?
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I don't know how it is...but you seem to think me something wonderful, and indeed, I am not.
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My lord said, amongst other things, that he did not propose to burden the doctor with the details of his genealogy. He consigned the doctor and all his works, severally and comprehensively described, to hell, and finished up his epic speech by a pungent and Rabelaisian criticism of the whole race of leeches.
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You will like her," he persisted. "Egad, she's after your own heart, maman! She shot me in the arm."
"Voyons, do you think that is what I like?
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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.
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...Gentlemen don't understand anything, however wise they may be.
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There is nothing so mortifying as to fall in love with someone who does not share one's sentiments.
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You will allow that one's curiosity must be aroused when one learns that a lady is prepared to elope to escape from advances one had not the least intention of making!
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Friday. Proposed to Cicely. Refused.
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