Quotes
Authors
Georgette Heyer
"Did you imagine that you would make me believe ill of Sophy with your foolish and spiteful letter!' he demanded. 'You have tried to set me against her from the outset, but you over-reached yourself today, my girl! How dared you write in such terms to me! How could you have been so crassly stupid as to suppose that Sophy could ever need your countenance to set her right in the eyes of the world, or that I would believe one word of slander against her?" --
Georgette Heyer
#Girl Quotes
#Stupid Quotes
#Believe Quotes
“I feel my soul as vast as the world, truly a soul as deep as the deepest of rivers; my chest has the power to expand to infinity. I was made to give and they prescribe for me the humility of the cripple.”
“What is the cause of historical events? Power. What is power? Power is the sum total of wills transferred to one person. On what condition are the willso fo the masses transferred to one person? On condition that the person express the will of the whole people. That is, power is power. That is, power is a word the meaning of which we do not understand.”
“Neiman-Marcus is one thing, and the Dallas Cowboys are another.”
“Each culture might lend its own dialect, but above all that is the language of music itself, and it doesn't care about politics or boundaries.”
“A world constructed from the familiar is the world in which there's nothing to learn.”
“Astley comes to my side. 'Are you well?' 'No,' I tell him, voice hoarse. 'I am not well. I am broken inside. I am broken almost all-the-way deep, and I don't know...I don't know if I can ever be unbroken, let alone well again'”
Source : Carrie Jones (2011). “Entice”, p.83, A&C Black
“I was in college, I thought I was going to be a lawyer, I met this girl named Laura who was the most beautiful girl I had ever known, and she was taking an acting class, so I decided to take the same acting class. And I was a terrible actor in college.”
“If you want to be creative, go where your questions lead you.”