Georgette Heyer Book Quotes & Sayings

There is no health; physicians say that we, at best, enjoy but neutrality. — John Donne

When a spider makes a beautiful web, the beauty comes out of the spider's nature. It's instinctive beauty. How much of the beauty of our own lives is about the beauty of being alive? — Joseph Campbell

When I was a kid, I just read and read. We were lucky enough to have gone to England and had a whole bunch of Penguin Puffins books, like The Land of Green Ginger by Noel Langley, which is hilarious. I would love to be able to write a book like that, but I don't know that I have a humorous bone in my body when it comes to writing. Once on a Time by A.A. Milne. I read a lot of old, old fantasy stuff. The Carbonelbooks by Barbara Sleigh. Then when I got a little older I loved Zilpha Keatley Snyder. I was a big fan of romance and when I got a little bit older I would read a Harlequin romance or a Georgette Heyer novel and then David Copperfield, and then another genre book and then Irving Stone's The Agony and the Ecstasy. I was that kind of reader. One book that I loved was I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith. I loved voice and that book had it in spades. And then of course I grew into loving Jane Eyre. — Franny Billingsley

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust to be managed for the good of others. — Andrew Carnegie

When equal armies battle, the grieving one will be victorious. — Laozi

Injections are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Probably every book I read influenced me in some small way. Authors like Jan Westcott, Kathleen Winsor, Catherine Cookson, Georgette Heyer, and even Barbara Cartland taught me to write character-driven stories. — Virginia Henley

A man is made by his circumstances", said Guy. "If you want to change him, you must change his circumstances. — Olivia Manning

What difference does it make if the Gospel is mostly a lie? It's an engrossing story and the words of its hero are excellent words to live by, even today. — Tom Robbins

Between bites Jackson said, "So what's our next move?" Sawyer looked — David Baldacci

Inside of every problem lies an opportunity. — Robert Kiyosaki

I want to feel what I feel. What's mine. Even if it's not happiness, whatever that means. Because you're all you've got. — Toni Morrison

His attention caught, her companion raised his eyes from the book which lay open beside him on the table and directed them upon her in a look of aloof enquiry. 'What's that? Did you say something to me, Venetia?'
'Yes, love,' responded his sister cheerfully, 'but it wasn't of the least consequence, and in any event I answered for you. You would be astonished, I daresay, if you knew what interesting conversations I enjoy with myself. — Georgette Heyer

Circumstances do not make the man or woman, they merely reveal them. — Brian Tracy