Carol

“She had herself been sadly disappointed, for she had thought him a man of sense, certainly not one to be succumbing to childish ailments at inopportune moments.”
― Georgette Heyer, The Grand Sophy

“I find it a marvellous circumstance, cousin, that no one has yet strangled you!”
― Georgette Heyer, The Grand Sophy

“I hope you mean to contribute a handsome wreath to my obsequies?’ ‘Certainly! In the nature of things, it is likely that you will predecease me.’ ‘If I survive this adventure there can be no question of that. Your fate is writ clear: you will be murdered. I cannot conceive how it comes about that you were not murdered long since!’ ‘How odd! Charles himself once said that to me, or something like it!’ ‘There is nothing odd in it: any sensible man must say it!”
― Georgette Heyer, The Grand Sophy

“From being a female sunk below reproach Sophy became rapidly an unconventional girl whose unaffected manners were refreshing in an age of simpers and high flights.”
― Georgette Heyer, The Grand Sophy