Gail Carriger Quotes

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

~ Gail Carriger

The ill-informed masses included her own family among their ranks, a family that specialized in being both inconvenient and asinine.

~ Gail Carriger

I think we seldom regret the risks we take as much as the times we did not try at all.

~ Gail Carriger

I suspect it may be like the difference between a drinker and an alcoholic; the one merely reads books, the other needs books to make it through the

~ Gail Carriger

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

~ Gail Carriger

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

~ Gail Carriger

There was a pleasantness to the air and a spirit about the town that did not come from its color, but from some inner, tasty citrus quality. It made Alexia wonder fancifully if cities could have souls.

~ Gail Carriger

Just because history says it isn't possible doesn't mean that there aren't exceptions.

~ Gail Carriger

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

We like the shadows. That's where all the power is.

~ Gail Carriger

Oh, Major, you do so love to annoy, don't you?It is the stuff of living, my lady.

~ Gail Carriger

Trust is a lot to ask of someone.

~ Gail Carriger

Where were the scientific pamphlets that taught a woman how to listen to herself die?

~ Gail Carriger

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

~ Gail Carriger

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

Sophronia felt bound to object. I, for one, should prefer not to shoot at someone I like.Admirable scruples, Miss Temminnick. Get over them. For you will do it anyway.

~ Gail Carriger

The Earl of Woolsey was indeed completely nude. He did not seem particularly perturbed by this fact, but Miss Tarabotti felt the sudden need to close her eyes tight and think about asparagus or something equally mundane.

~ Gail Carriger

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

~ Gail Carriger

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

~ Gail Carriger

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

~ Gail Carriger

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

~ Gail Carriger

We're a team like tea and milk, or cake and custard, or pork and apple.

~ Gail Carriger

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

~ Gail Carriger

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

What if all those strange and unexplainable bends in history were the result of supernatural interference? At which point I asked myself, what's the weirdest most eccentric historical phenomenon of them all? Answer:the Great British Empire. Clearly, one tiny little island could only conquer half the known world with supernatural aid. Those absurd Victorian manners and ridiculous fashions were obviously dictated by vampires. And, without a doubt, the British army regimental system functions on werewolf pack dynamics.

~ Gail Carriger

And vampires were perverted. Or so she hoped

~ Gail Carriger

One could not blame a people for disliking vampires. Vampires were like brussels sprouts - not for everyone and impossible to improve upon with sauce.

~ Gail Carriger

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

~ Gail Carriger

It is a valuable thing for an intelligencer to be forgotten.

~ Gail Carriger

The vampire's eyes were open, and he was staring at her intently. It was as though he were trying to speak to her with simply the power of a glare.Alexia did not speak glare-ish.

~ Gail Carriger

It didn't feel sporting to shoot at a crazy person, even if that person was a vampire who'd agreed to the job.

~ Gail Carriger

Lyall's face went deadpan as he relayed the details, as those who are tortured or raped will become when they retell the pattern of abuse

~ Gail Carriger

I suppose that saves us from having to determine what to do with a butler who goes around killing people. It certainly reflects badly upon our domestic staff. Still, I shall miss him. There was a man who knew how to brew a good cup of tea.

~ Gail Carriger

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

It had taken her a good deal of time before she believed that she was worth all that fierce affection he lavished upon her. To have it stolen away unjustly was that much more cruel.

~ Gail Carriger

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

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

~ Gail Carriger

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

~ Gail Carriger

Tonight I crash an airship. On purpose.

~ Gail Carriger

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