Quote

You are about as covert as a sledgehammer.

Gail Carriger

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Gail Carriger
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: May 4
Archaeologist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Bolinas
California
Sledgehammer
Covert

More quotes by Gail Carriger

Image
The important question is, what will your wear for a wedding dress, Alexia? You look horrible in white.
Gail Carriger
Image
She moved with such purpose it was as though she walked with exclamation marks.
Gail Carriger
Image
And I find perfect beauty excessively boring, don't you?
Gail Carriger
Image
Lyall understood a broken heart, but it could not be allowed to rumple perfectly good shirtwaists.
Gail Carriger
Image
Really, Channing,” remonstrated Alexia, “did you have to eat the man’s dog? I am convinced you will experience terrible indigestion.
Gail Carriger
Image
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
Image
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
Image
Alexia suspected Lord Maccon's handling was a tad more than was strictly called for under the circumstances, but she secretly enjoyed the sensation. After all, how often did a spinster of her shelf life get manhandled by an earl of Lord Maccon's peerage? She had better take advantage of the situation.
Gail Carriger
Image
Lady Maccon cogitated. She would like to encourage this new spirit of social-mindedness. If Felicity needed anything in her life, it was a cause. Then she might stop nitpicking everyone else.
Gail Carriger
Image
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
Image
His lordship can eat my fat—
Gail Carriger
Image
I never gossip. I observe. And then relay my observations to practically everyone.
Gail Carriger
Image
How ghastly for her, people actually thinking, with their brains, and right next door. Oh, the travesty of it all.
Gail Carriger
Image
The bowl landed, in glorious perfection, atop the head of Mrs Barnaclegoose, who was not the kind of woman to appreciate the finer points of being crowned by trifle.
Gail Carriger
Image
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
Image
Mrs. Loontwill did what any well-prepared mother would do upon finding her unmarried daughter in the arms of a gentleman werewolf: she had very decorous, and extremely loud, hysterics.
Gail Carriger
Image
Madame Lefoux shrugged. I do not know about that, my lady. I mean to say, one's life is one thing one's technology is an entirely different matter.
Gail Carriger
Image
I do not giggle without purpose. Lady Linette says you should never misapply a giggle.
Gail Carriger
Image
She was no closer to determining who might want her dead. There were just too many possibilities.
Gail Carriger
Image
The ill-informed masses included her own family among their ranks, a family that specialized in being both inconvenient and asinine.
Gail Carriger