Miss J

“Odd's fish, m'dear, would you have me challenge the poor countess to a duel?”
― The Scarlet Pimpernel

“What is it you Frenchies say? Tou-che? You see, I'm a bit of a poet and you did not know it, what?”
― The Scarlet Pimpernel

“Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation."
"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.”
― Charlotte Brontë , Jane Eyre

“Look at this limp cravet. And the sad state of those cuffs. I can hardly bring myself to look upon them.”
― Baroness Emmuska Orczy