“I have no objection to your addressing me as Oliver, but ‘Merely Oliver’ I’m damned if I’ll tolerate!”
(Georgette Heyer, Lady of Quality, 1972)
Humphrey
January 29, 2010 at 7:22 pm (H, Male Names, Name Quotes A-Z)
Tags: Georgette Heyer, Humphrey
“I’ll be damned if I’ll be called Humphrey! If there’s one name I dislike that’s it.”
(Georgette Heyer – The Talisman Ring, 1936)
Rudolph
November 25, 2009 at 5:53 pm (Male Names, Name Quotes A-Z, R)
Tags: Georgette Heyer, Rudolph
“I don’t mind telling you I don’t like the name. In fact, I think it’s a damn silly name. What’s more, if I had to call him by it I should feel very self-conscious.”
(Georgette Heyer, Death in the Stocks, 1935)
Alexis (m)
November 2, 2009 at 5:32 pm (A, Male Names, Name Quotes A-Z)
Tags: Alexis, Georgette Heyer
“You needn’t think I’m going about calling the fellow by a silly name like that, because I’m not.”
(Georgette Heyer, No Wind of Blame, 1939)
Abigail
November 1, 2009 at 4:49 pm (A, Female Names)
Tags: Abigail, Georgette Heyer
“You need not call me by that detestable name! Whatever else I might forgive Papa, that I never could! Abigail! Mashams and maidservants!”
“Some people think it a charming name! . . . . It is from the Hebrew and means father rejoiced.”
.. . “Papa can’t have known that!”
(Georgette Heyer, Black Sheep, 1966)
