Georgette Heyer

"I like very few people nowadays; in fact, the number of persons whom I cordially dislike increases almost hourly."

"I daresay Freddy might not be a great hand at slaying dragons—but one has not the smallest need of a man who can kill dragons!"

"As soon as one promises not to do something, it becomes the one thing above all others that one most wishes to do."

"I don’t think I am green. It’s true I only know what I’ve read in books, but I’ve read a great many books."

"The Regency period is peculiarly Miss Heyer's own, and The Grand Sophy is one of her very best. No one is more adept at combining the amusing idiom of the time with an undated wit to make dialogue that crackles with life. No one creates characters so entirely without anachronisms yet so convincingly flesh and blood. There is nothing of the egad-forsooth style in her books, but the very essence of the swaggering, coaching, gaming set is on every page. If there is any justice in the writing world, which is sometimes questionable, Miss Heyer's public will continue to increase substantially."