Gail Carriger Short Quotes

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Uh, my lord, I am not actually food. You do realize this, yes?

Gail Carriger
What's wrong with you? Are you ill? I forbid you to be ill, wife.

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One should do what one is best at on as large a scale as possible.

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Alexia abhorred hypocrisy, especially when munitions were involved.

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I am rather fond of ladybugs. They are so delightfully hemispherical.

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[She] lost her patience, a thing she was all too prone to misplacing.

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Alphas simply did not grovel; arrogance was part of the job description.

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Oh, dear me, no. Then I should be known as that vampire with all the cats.

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Ah, Ivy, thought Alexia happily, spreading a verbal fog wherever she goes.

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She moved with such purpose it was as though she walked with exclamation marks.

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These things, regrettably, are bound to occur when one is married and befriended.

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I never gossip. I observe. And then relay my observations to practically everyone.

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I do not giggle without purpose. Lady Linette says you should never misapply a giggle.

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Alexia, she hissed to her friend, there are knees positively everywhere. What do I do?

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No, Lord Maccon was riproaring, tumble down, without a doubt, pickled beyond the gherkin.

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A woman, even a married woman, cannot float without proper escort. It is simply not done.

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There are words to describe her, my dear, but one does not repeat them in polite company.

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I am entirely capable." "Of what, waddling up to someone and ruthlessly bumping into them?

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They decided the mummy would be unwrapped, for the titillation of the ladies, just after dinner.

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I may be a werewolf and Scottish, but despite what you may have read about both, we are not cads!

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She was no closer to determining who might want her dead. There were just too many possibilities.

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Lyall understood a broken heart, but it could not be allowed to rumple perfectly good shirtwaists.

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It's no good choosing your first husband from a school for evil geniuses. Much too difficult to kill.

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These feelings you engender in me, my lord, are most indelicate. You should stop causing them immediately.

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How was I to know idiocy was only a temporary condition, especially in your case? It never has been before!

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Really, Sophronia, it makes me most uncomfortable how you manage to sort everything out every time I faint.

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Rail is such an undignified way to travel. All that rapid racing about. Floating has so much more gravitas.

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Lord Maccon was built like a brick outhouse, with opinions twice as unmoving and often equally full of crap.

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Floote, what is going on? Do they think I am contagious? Should I assure them I was born with a nose this size?

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Scotsmen, she had occasion to observe, often did have nice knees. Perhaps that was why they insisted upon kilts.

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