A Quote by Georgette Heyer

Oh, 'tis not my qualities they object to! 'Tis my lack of vice.

Georgette Heyer

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Lack Object Oh Qualities Tis Vice

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Georgette Heyer
British - Novelist
August 16, 1902 - July 4, 1974

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Oh! 'tis a precious thing, when wives are dead, To find such numbers who will serve instead: And in whatever state a man be thrown, 'Tis that precisely they would wish their own.

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Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round.

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And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death. And O what a bright old song it is, that O 'tis love, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round!

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Tis a principle of war that when you can use the lightning, 'tis better than cannon.

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Is that a birthday? 'tis, alas! too clear; 'Tis but the funeral of the former year.

Alexander Pope

Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard... 'Tis the living up to it that's difficult.

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When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, `Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free.' But I was one-and-twenty No use to talk to me. When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again, `The heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain; 'Tis paid with sighs a plenty And sold for endless rue.' And I am two-and-twenty And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.