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Gail Carriger Quotes | Quotes said by Gail Carriger

  • Gail Carriger Quote #1

    ...you have been fraternizing with warewolves overmuch! Military men can be terribly bad for one's verbal concatenation!


  • Gail Carriger Quote #2

    How have I never noticed she only required praise to find me acceptable? wondered Sophronia, not quite realizing that this, too, was a mark of her new education. Many was the lady whose belief in another's sound judgment was based solely upon that other judging her favorably.

  • Gail Carriger Quote #3

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

  • Gail Carriger Quote #4

    After every unladylike action, there must be an equal and opposite reaction. Consider the necessary, analyze the consequences, clean up the mess.

  • Gail Carriger Quote #5

    Alexia figured, delightedly, that this meant he did, in fact, tend to traipse around his private apartments in the altogether. Marriage was becoming more and more of an attractive prospect.

  • Gail Carriger Quote #6

    Alexia found herself surrounded and embraced by a room of such unmitigated welcome and personality that it was akin to being yelled at by plum pudding.

  • Gail Carriger Quote #7

    Alexia sighed. It is times like this I wish I could talk to my mother.
    Good gracious, what good would that do, madam? Floote was moved to speak by the outrageousness of Alexia's statement.
    Well, whatever she said, I could simply take the opposite point of view.

  • Gail Carriger Quote #8

    Alexia wondered what it said about her character that Ivy had genuinely believed she would intentionally go climbing about the side of a floating dirigible.

  • Gail Carriger Quote #9

    Alexia's books called this end of the vampire life cycle dissanimation. Alexia, who thought the action astoundingly similar to a soufflé going flat, decided at that moment to call it the Grand Collapse.

  • Gail Carriger Quote #10

    And I find perfect beauty excessively boring, don't you?

  • Gail Carriger Quote #11

    But I don't want to be a vampire drone.' Sophronia winced. 'They'll suck my blood and make me wear only the very latest fashions.

  • Gail Carriger Quote #12

    But we were talking about me and my problems.

    Sophronia looked Monique up and down gravely.

    I don't think we're going to solve those in the space of one carriage ride.

  • Gail Carriger Quote #13

    Cats were not, in her experience, an animal with much soul. Prosaic, practical little creatures as a general rule. It would suit her very well to be thought catlike.

  • Gail Carriger Quote #14

    Consider the necessary, analyze the consequences, clean up the mess.

  • Gail Carriger Quote #15

    Felicity was horrible and snide, but then Felicity had been a repulsive earwig ever since she first grew a vocabulary.

  • Gail Carriger Quote #16

    Floote shot his other gun.
    This time the bullet hit the man's chest. The vampire fell backward, crashed into a loaded display cabinet, and landed on the floor, making exactly the same sound a carpet makes when whacked to get the dust out.

  • Gail Carriger Quote #17

    For you, it's gossip. For me, it's action.

  • Gail Carriger Quote #18

    Great, Alexia thought, I have gone from soul sucker to electrical ground. The epithets just get sweeter and sweeter.

  • Gail Carriger Quote #19

    Having delivered the expected daily miracle, Floote stood in his usual stance and warily watched the Templars work.

  • Gail Carriger Quote #20

    He has been mad for you these many months, ever since you prodded him in the nether regions with a hedgehog.

  • Gail Carriger Quote #21

    He might have lost his mind, but never his fashion sense.

  • Gail Carriger Quote #22

    Here, I stole it for you. Why don’t you tell me what it’s for.”

    “Aw, Sophronia, how thoughtful. You brought me a present!

  • Gail Carriger Quote #23

    Highland werewolves had a reputation for doing atrocious and highly unwarranted *things*, like wearing smoking jackets to the dinner table.

  • Gail Carriger Quote #24

    His eyes are peculiar. There is nothing in them, like an eclair without the cream filling. It's wrong, lack of cream.

  • Gail Carriger Quote #25

    How ghastly for her, people actually thinking, with their brains, and right next door. Oh, the travesty of it all.

  • Gail Carriger Quote #26

    I don't want my writing to be work to read. My main goal is completely shameless entertainment. I want people to smile and giggle and enjoy the book. I'm not trying to save the world through literature.

  • Gail Carriger Quote #27

    I hate missing everything. That's why I want to marry well and be a grand lady. Then I can host all the parties, all the time, and see everything that is going on always. How can you stand not knowing?

  • Gail Carriger Quote #28

    I like fish, chirruped Tunstell.
    Really, Mr. Tunstell? What is your preferred breed?
    Well--Tunstell hesitated--you know, the um, ones that--he made a swooping motion with both hands--uh, swim.

  • Gail Carriger Quote #29

    I mean to say, really, I am near to developing a neurosis - is there anyone around who doesn't want to study or kill me?
    Floote raised a tentative hand.
    Ah, yes, thank you, Floote.
    There is also Mrs Tunstell, madam, he offered hopefully, is if Ivy were some kind of consolation prize.
    I notice you don't mention my fair-weather husband.
    I suspect, at this moment, madam, he probably wants to kill you.
    Alexia couldn't help smiling. Good point.

  • Gail Carriger Quote #30

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

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