Georgette Heyer quote: "Besides, it was a well-known maxim that maniacs must be humoured."

You have a genius for bringing trouble upon yourself
GEORGETTE HEYER

It is a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
DAVID HUME

I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
MAX BEERBOHM

Eccentricity may be diverting, Mama, but it is out of place in a wife: certainly in my wife!
GEORGETTE HEYER

You're only a man! You've not our gifts! I can tell you! Why, a woman can think of a hundred differe...
GEORGETTE HEYER

It was growing late, and though one might stand on the brink of a deep chasm of disaster, one was st...
GEORGETTE HEYER

The Marquis believed himself to be hardened against flattery. He thought that he had experienced eve...
GEORGETTE HEYER

Do you forget that I am your sister?”
“No; I’ve never been granted the opportunity to for...
GEORGETTE HEYER

Wretch! I shan’t allow you to take a rise out of me! I want to talk to you about Jane!”
“...
GEORGETTE HEYER

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

If I must consort with rogues [...] I own I like them to be in the grand manner.
GEORGETTE HEYER

[...]if you talk any more flummery to me, Frederica, I shall give you one of my—er—icy set-downs...
GEORGETTE HEYER

You don’t understand!” she exclaimed bitterly.

“That,” said his lordship, with a ...
GEORGETTE HEYER

No one could have called Mr. Standen quick-witted, but the possession of three sisters had considera...
GEORGETTE HEYER

Well of course it did and it would have made any man feel just as I did! I told Mama - perfectly<...
GEORGETTE HEYER Do you like pets better than toys and books? I always did, so I thought very likely you would too.
GEORGETTE HEYER God knows I'm no saint, but I don't think I'm more of a sinner than any other man.
GEORGETTE HEYER He then, with great presence of mind, put a stop to any further recriminations by kissing her; and h...
GEORGETTE HEYER He has probably gnawed his nails down to the quick, or murdered poor Mr. Orde.
GEORGETTE HEYER He paused and then said, as though the words were wrung out of him: ‘O God, Mama, I’ve made such...
GEORGETTE HEYER O God, Mama, I’ve made such a mull of it! What am I to do?
GEORGETTE HEYER Don't you dare call me arrogant!If ever I had any at all-which I deny!- how much could I possibly ha...
GEORGETTE HEYER [He was aware] of the value of the word of praise dropped at exactly the right moment; and he would ...
GEORGETTE HEYER The charm of your society, my Sparrow, lies in not knowing what you will say next – though one rap...
GEORGETTE HEYER Oh, yes, she's unusual!" he said bitterly. "She blurts out whatever may come into her head; she tumb...
GEORGETTE HEYER No, but on the other hand you don't enact me Cheltenham tragedies when I've barely swallowed my brea...
GEORGETTE HEYER You are an atrocious person! Since the day I met you I have become steadily more depraved.
GEORGETTE HEYER [...]my memory is reasonably good—unlike yours, dear sir!”
“Mine is erratic,” he said i...
GEORGETTE HEYER She stretched out her hand, saying, “Vernon! My dear, what a delightful surprise!”
“What�...
GEORGETTE HEYER She bowed her head, clasping her hands tightly before her upon the arm of his chair, for her heart y...
GEORGETTE HEYER Well, sir, do you mean to remain there, commending my father’s taste in wine, or do you mean to ac...
GEORGETTE HEYER I liked that young man, did not you? There was something particularly pleasing about his manners, wh...
GEORGETTE HEYER Then Frederica went towards him, holding out her hand, and he raised his eyes from Felix’s eager c...
GEORGETTE HEYER My dear girl, you don't consent to an abduction! You consent to an elopement, and I knew you wouldn'...
GEORGETTE HEYER I feel an almost overwhelming interest in the methods of daylight abduction employed by the modern y...
GEORGETTE HEYER Sophy looked at him. Under his amazed and horrified gaze, large tears slowly welled over her eyelids...
GEORGETTE HEYER O God, I love you to the edge of madness, Venetia, but I'm not mad yet--not so mad that I don't know...
GEORGETTE HEYER I was under the impression that I warned you that in London country ways will not do, Frederica!”<...
GEORGETTE HEYER A voice that to Dominica's fancy seemed to hold all the sunshine and the salt wind of fine days at s...
GEORGETTE HEYER The Reverend William Trent, whose mind was of a serious order, had several times warned his elder si...
GEORGETTE HEYER Them Frenchies!’
‘Unchristian, that’s what I call ’em,’ responded Mr. Stubbs severel...
GEORGETTE HEYER He was not at the moment in very good odour at Bow Street. Such epithets as Blockhead and Blunderer ...
GEORGETTE HEYER My lord said, amongst other things, that he did not propose to burden the doctor with the details of...
GEORGETTE HEYER That drew a laugh from Jessamy, but he said, after a moment: “You had better flay me. It was my fa...
GEORGETTE HEYER With Philip's departure had come a void which only could be filled by Philip's return.
GEORGETTE HEYER [Heyer] said he lost sight of the puck, so he blew it. That was very frustrating, because we'd final...
ADRIAN AUCOIN It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however imp...
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however imp...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however imp...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE SR. Besides 'tis known he could speak Greek As naturally as pigs squeak; That Latin was no more di...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
BLAISE PASCAL Human things must be known to be loved: but Divine things must be loved to be known.
UNKNOWN Nothing could be more dangerous than following the popular maxim whereby it is the spirit of the law...
CESARE BECCARIA I was in the Square at the time. The crowd was a most good-humoured, easy going, smiling crowd; but ...
EDWARD CARPENTER If it must be enjoyed, then it must be done. And if it must be done, then it must be done well. If i...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR The people in charge, globally, are maniacs. They are maniacs, and unless we do something about it t...
THOM YORKE Power must be used, but it must be tempered by soul-searching and the recognition of our human capac...
ELIOT SPITZER I would rather my films be well-known than I be well-known.
PATRICE LECONTE The maxim of the tyrant, 'If you would rule the world quietly, you must keep it amused
RALPH WALDO EMERSON It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however imp...
CONAN DOYLE It is a maxim to me that no man was ever written out of reputation but by himself.
RICHARD BENTLEY It is a maxim with me that no man was ever written out of reputation but by himself
RICHARD BENTLEY Besides being at least eight weeks old, our pets must be healthy and well-socialized. This is done t...
JACK REIF It is well known that a man, when wooing a lady to be his wife, must first win over the females she ...
ANNA GODBERSEN Now that you're there, where everything is knowntell me:
What else lived in that house beside...
ANNA AKHMATOVA Besides 'tis known he could speak Greek, As naturally as pigs squeak
SAMUEL BUTLER I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix.
DEYTH BANGER Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.
PLATO ...it is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting ca...
TERRY PRATCHETT It is a well known fact that reality has liberal bias.
STEPHEN COLBERT That is a pretty common thing. It is quite well known.
ED COURTENAY It was well known by everyone, including the US government, that the system as constructed invited k...
JAMES DOBBINS It was well-known he was stalking her and pestering her with phone calls.
HEATHER CHULU I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to ex...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Hopefully it will be a good mix of well-known songs and unknown songs,
ALLEN SHAMBLIN That will be a great event with a well-known act coming through the area.
BEN HAINES Literally overnight, I became an animator... and one that was well-known.
TERRY GILLIAM He was well known as a jolly and caring fellow.
DALE GOODWIN It's a well-known fact that tall people are evil.
KEVIN HART Tonight it was one rough inning. Besides that, we looked good and we swung the bats well. I don't th...
BOBBY CROSBY If Stephen King was a killer, he will be the best killer ever existed, check out his novels, check o...
DEYTH BANGER It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least ...
DOUGLAS ADAMS But 'twas a maxim he had often tried, That right was right, and there he would abide.
GEORGE CRABBE Nietzsche has a very significant maxim. He says a tree that longs to reach the heights of heaven mus...
OSHO Every moment must be first known and then savored.
ANNE RICE I'd say they're maniacs, really, ... You push buttons, and it just does what it wants.
JOE COOPER Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.
EDWIN P. WHIPPLE Knowledge, like religion, must be "experienced" in order to be known.
EDWIN P. WHIPPLE We must confront this Zionist entity. All ties of all kinds must be severed with this plundering cri...
MOHAMMED MORSI It was ridiculous that they even went to Wayne. He was the biggest Western movie star of all time, a...
JAMES ARNESS First of all it must be known who the God of heaven is, since upon that all the other things depend.
EMANUEL SWEDENBORG There are things that I want Schoolcraft to be well-known for and part of that effort is to have us ...
CONWAY JEFFRESS We thought it was a good opportunity to have well known academic theologians speak on a variety of t...
KATHLEEN HOHL If I have lived by any maxim as a reporter, it was that every person is an expert on the circumstanc...
JOSEPH LELYVELD Maximum return was the maxim to which we returned.
MOHSIN HAMID All artists are egotistical maniacs with inferiority complexes.
LIONEL RICHIE Now, it it well known that one cannot step on a tack without saying something about it.
JOSHUA SLOCUM A 'conservative believer' must be someone who believes that Jesus was truly human as well as...
N. T. WRIGHT It certainly was unusual growing up with two fairly well-known pastors as my parents.
MALLORY ORTBERG It is well-known that Fernando Alonso is leaving the team.
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Besides, it was a well-known maxim that maniacs must be humoured.

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