Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Highland werewolves had a reputation for doing atrocious and highly unwarranted *things*, like wearing smoking jackets to the dinner table.
Gail Carriger
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Gail Carriger
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: May 4
Archaeologist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Bolinas
California
Reputation
Werewolves
Tables
Atrocious
Dinner
Werewolf
Things
Jackets
Like
Highly
Smoking
Wearing
Highland
Table
Unwarranted
More quotes by Gail Carriger
Lyall had spent centuries nibbling about the great layered cake that was polite society while Lord Akeldama acted the part of the frosting on its top.
Gail Carriger
Why did you want to go and distract me like that? I was quite in my element and everything.' Conall laughed. 'Someone has to keep you off balance otherwise you'll end up ruling the empire. Or at least ordering it into wretched submission.
Gail Carriger
Alexia, did you know there is an entire regiment decamping on your front lawn? Laddy Maccon sighed. Really, Ivy, I would never have noticed.
Gail Carriger
I am entirely capable. Of what, waddling up to someone and ruthlessly bumping into them?
Gail Carriger
He...boasted an unassuming mustache, which was perched atop his upper lip cautiously, as though it were slightly embarrassed to be there and would like to slide away and become a sideburn or something more fashionable.
Gail Carriger
She was no closer to determining who might want her dead. There were just too many possibilities.
Gail Carriger
What’s that?” she asked the girl, wrinkling her nose. “Oh, that? That’s just Pillover.” “And what’s a pillover, when it’s at home?” “My little brother.” “Ah, I commiserate. I have several of my own. Dashed inconvenient, brothers.
Gail Carriger
She took a moment to lament her lack of parasol. Every time she left the house, she felt keenly the absence of her heretofore ubiquitous accessory.
Gail Carriger
Classic author moment, Oh dear, did I kill that character or not?
Gail Carriger
Biffy didn't like enigmas - they were out of fashion.
Gail Carriger
Steampunk is...the love child of Hot Topic and a BBC costume drama
Gail Carriger
Ah, Lady Maccon, how lovely. I did wonder when you would track us down.” “I was unavoidably delayed by husbands and Ivys,” explained Alexia. “These things, regrettably, are bound to occur when one is married and befriended.
Gail Carriger
Very well, Lord Maccon. If we are going to play this particular hand, would you be interested in becoming my...” “Mistress?
Gail Carriger
A man was attacking me with a wet handkerchief.
Gail Carriger
Lord Akeldama sighed. 'You lovebirds, how will I endure such flirtations constantly in my company? How déclassé, Lord Maccon, to love your own wife.
Gail Carriger
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
You are about as covert as a sledgehammer.
Gail Carriger
Floote, what is going on? Do they think I am contagious? Should I assure them I was born with a nose this size?
Gail Carriger
How ghastly for her, people actually thinking, with their brains, and right next door. Oh, the travesty of it all.
Gail Carriger
I am rather fond of ladybugs. They are so delightfully hemispherical.
Gail Carriger
