Anne

“He said gently: “I am not, I hope, such a coxcomb as to distress you by repeated solicitations, Miss Tallant, but you may believe that I am still of the same mind as I was when I made you an offer. If your sentiments should undergo a change, one word-one look!—would be sufficient to apprise me of it.”
― Georgette Heyer, Arabella

“One is for ever hearing of persons who have lost their fortunes at gaming, but one never hears of anyone who has won a fortune. It seems very odd to me. Where do all the lost fortunes go to?”
― Georgette Heyer, False Colours

“There is no friend so faithful as a good book. There is no worse robber than a bad book.”
― Italian proverb

“The best way to prepare for death is to spend every day of life as though it were the last.”
― St. Philip Neri