Christy > Christy's Quotes

“If you can't say anything nice, at least have the decency to be vague.”
― Susan Andersen, Baby, Don't Go

“If you want me, you'll have to earn me. And, mister, I don't come cheap.”
― Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Fancy Pants

“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, Black Sheep

“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, Black Sheep

“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.”
― Georgette Heyer, The Nonesuch

“Has no one ever told you that it is the height of impropriety to kiss any gentleman, unless you have the intention of accompanying him immediately to the altar?”
― Georgette Heyer, Black Sheep

“As far as I'm concerned, men like you were put on this world to entertain women like me.”
― Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Fancy Pants

“If you imagine that I have the smallest desire to receive your hand as a reward for having performed a difficult task to your satisfaction you're beside the bridge, my child! I've no fancy for a reluctant wife. I want your love, not your gratitude.”
― Georgette Heyer, Black Sheep

“I wish you did return my regard," he said. "More than I have ever wished anything in my life! Perhaps you may yet learn to do so: I should warn you that I don't easily despair!”
― Georgette Heyer, The Nonesuch

“Dallas, is it remotely possible for you to carry on a conversation that's not loaded down with manure?”
― Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Fancy Pants

“Damn. It looks to me like I just missed the best reunion since Sherman got together with Atlanta.”
― Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Fancy Pants

“Ah women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.”
― Susan Andersen, Bending the Rules

“The Reverend William Trent, whose mind was of a serious order, had several times warned his elder sister that too lively a sense of humour frequently led to laxity of principle. She now perceived how right he was; and wondered, in dismay, whether it was because he invariably made her laugh that instead of regarding the Nonesuch with revulsion she was obliged to struggle against the impulse to cast every scruple to the winds, and to give her life into his keeping.”
― Georgette Heyer, The Nonesuch

“Only you could take one of my worst character faults and turn it into a virtue.”
― Susan Andersen, Baby, Don't Go

“If I catch you making eyes at Hunter Chenier tonight, it's over between us.'
She looked over her shoulder. 'That a promise?”
― Nina Bruhns, Catch Me If You Can

“Better to have you curse me for giving you too much freedom, than have you blame me for bad decisions that may or may not have come as a result of my advice.”
― Tori Carrington, You Sexy Thing!

“His own parents, the estimable Gilchrists, a couple who had taken the 'till death' part of their own wedding vows so seriously he wouldn't be surprised if they one day throttled one another, had naturally wangled the next best seat in the house: row two, on the aisle.”
― Ally Blake, A Night with the Society Playboy

“God knows I'm no saint, but I don't think I'm more of a sinner than any other man.”
― Georgette Heyer, The Nonesuch

“Let me tell you, my girl, that I'm swallowing no more of your insults! And if I hear another word from you in disparagement of the Corinthian set it will be very much the worse for you!”
― Georgette Heyer, The Nonesuch

“You are an atrocious person! Since the day I met you I have become steadily more depraved.”
― Georgette Heyer, The Nonesuch

“I'm really not quite as frippery a fellow as you seem to think! I own that in my grasstime I committed a great many follies and extravagances, but, believe me, I've long since out-grown them! I don't think they were any worse than what nine out of ten youngsters commit, but unfortunately I achieved, through certain circumstances, a notoriety which most young men escape. I was born with a natural aptitude for the sporting pursuits you regard with so much distrust, and I inherited, at far too early an age, a fortune which not only enabled me to indulge my tastes in the most expensive manner imaginable, but which made me an object of such interest that everything I did was noted, and talked of. That's heady stuff for greenhorns, you know! There was a time when I gave the gossips plenty to talk about. But do give me credit for having seen the error of my ways!”
― Georgette Heyer, The Nonesuch

“I adored you,” North said. “I just didn’t tell you. You were the most amazing thing that had ever happened to me. Nothing else like you in my world before or since. I was crazy about you. I still am. Ten years later you walk into my office and I see you and it’s like the first time, I can’t think, I can’t talk, I just need you with me. It makes me crazy, but now that I’ve got you back . . . You’re everything, Andie. I should have told you that before.”
― Jennifer Crusie, Maybe This Time

“Why are you offering me ten thousand dollars a month for babysitting? You didn’t pay the nannies that. It’s ridiculous. For ten thousand a month, you should not only get child care, you should get your house cleaned, your laundry done, your tires rotated, and if I were you, I’d insist on nightly blow jobs. Did you think I wouldn’t notice that you’re still trying to keep your thumb on me?”
― Jennifer Crusie, Maybe This Time

“What is it about men, anyway? You can't live with 'em and the law frowns on neutering them. It's not exactly a win-win situation.”
― Susan Andersen, Burning Up

“It was pretty much the male code not to let your friends have too much fun if there was any chance you could throw a wrench in their good times.”
― Susan Andersen, Burning Up

“He should have seen this coming, but he hadn't. Of course she wouldn't want to move back to Wynette after everything that had happened to her there. But what about his family, his friends, his roots, which stretched so deep into that rocky soil he'd become part of it?”
― Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Call Me Irresistible

“He could deal with his guilt all by himself. Guilt didn't add up to love, an emotion she was done with forever.”
― Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Call Me Irresistible

“I sure do miss that woman. Smart. Funny. Sweet. She never gave me a moment's trouble."

"Gosh, I'm sorry about that. I knew it was boring between you two, but not that bad.”
― Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Call Me Irresistible

“Okay, so I'll admit I'm curious. Big deal. We both know what that leads to. Dead cat.”
― Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Call Me Irresistible

“My passionate puritan!”
― Violet Winspear, Devil in a Silver Room