Inheritence Quotes

“I am shocked— excessively shocked! Your father would have been very glad to have left his ring to Martin, let me tell you, only he thought it not right to leave it away from the heir!"

"Was it indeed a personal bequest?" inquired Gervase, interested. "That certainly must be held to enhance its value. It becomes, in fact, a curio, for it must be quite the only piece of unentailed property which my father did bequeath to me. I shall put it in a glass cabinet."

Martin, reddening, said: "I see what you are at! I'm not to be blamed if my father preferred me to you!"

"No, you are to be felicitated," said Gervase.”
― Georgette Heyer, The Quiet Gentleman

“But this is your home'
'Not any longer, my poppet. Women make nests but men make bequests and scatter them. Heigh-ho!”
― Joan Aiken, Eliza's Daughter

“Your search for forgiveness will find no one to speak on your behalf.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Children do not inherit a language. They inherit the people who speak it.”
― Neil Banerjee, What the Gate First Knew

“Some fathers leave wealth. Others leave the habit of wonder.”
― Neil Banerjee, What the Gate First Knew