Top 400 Gail Carriger Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “Werewolves had to obey the laws of physics just like everyone else. The.”

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202. “I could practically hear her thoughts sliding about in her head, like water over pebbles. Very slow water over very large pebbles.”

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203. “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.”

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204. “Rue began to suspect that Floote said so little because others found him easy to talk to. At.”

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205. “I simply feel that world domination is not my cup of tea. Is that shortsighted?”

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206. “I believe I liked it better when she was yelling at me.”

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207. “This was the kind of woman who took her tea black, smoked cigars after midnight, played a mean game of cribbage, and kept a bevy of repulsive little dogs.”

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208. “For you, it’s gossip. For me, it’s action.”

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209. “What’s wrong with you? Are you ill? I forbid you to be ill, wife.”

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210. “Well, if I must, fine. I’ll guard the retreat,” said Alexia. “Buy us some time.” “What, in a clock shop?”

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211. “Rue floated through it all on a puffy cloud of ulterior motives.”

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212. “It was difficult to see the exact nature of his expression as, in addition to the ubiquitous mustache, the clockmaker also wore a golden-brown beard of such epic proportions as might dwarf a mulberry bush. It was as though his mustache had become overly enthusiastic and, seized with the spirit of adventure, set out to conquer the southern reaches of his face in a take-no-prisoners kind of way.”

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213. “Just like a cat, to mould her environment to suit her whim.”

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214. “You think loyalty can be bought?” “Don’t you?”

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215. “I must send a beard to rescue a mustache!”

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216. “In a desperate bid to reestablish civilized talk and decorum, Miss Hisselpenny said, quite loudly, “I see they are bringing in the fish course. What a pleasant surprise. I do so love fish. Don’t you Mr., uh, Dubh. It is so very, um, salty.”

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217. “He was not very big, mostly because he was not a very big human, and the basic principles of conservation of mass still applied whether supernatural or not. Werewolves had to obey the laws of physics just like everyone else.”

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218. “I was rather hoping we could live happily in sin for a very long time.”

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219. “But wait. What blood from yonder mortal drips?” Lord Akeldama misquoted.”

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220. “Your daughter would like to know if you are still going insane, dear.” Paw considered this. “I’ve been married to your mother for over two decades. You might allow me certain dispensation for eccentricity.”

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221. “To be stupid was one thing; to be stupid and evil yielded up untidy consequences.”

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222. “This is the time for obscure Italian mathematicians.”

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223. “Professor Braithwope, shimmering out of his room fully clothed and dapper. His mustache was a fluffy caterpillar of curiosity, perched and ready to inquire, dragging the vampire along behind it on the investigation.”

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224. “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.”

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225. “There was no way she was staying trapped with tea at a time like this.”

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226. “Gavin tried not to stare at the lobster. He decided not to inquire further. Whatever Jack’s reasoning, best to accept that crustaceans were necessary to his view of the world.”

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227. “Fifteen minutes later, what she got was the most remarkable thing she had ever seen in her life. And Rue had once witnessed a whole party of American tourists actually refuse to drink tea, in a London teahouse, so that’s saying something. The.”

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228. “She felt, in fact, very absent from herself. Adrift, as if nothing might bring her back again. Not even tea.”

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

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230. “Footwear, after all, was a serious commitment.”

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231. “Rue was a romantic. Her parents were a love match. Had to be, for there was no other possible explanation for them tolerating one another. Thus Rue held the very peculiar opinion that love made for a most agreeable form of companionship.”

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232. “After four marriages, and four deaths, she had everything in life a woman might desire: titled position, swollen coffers, the freedom to travel, and a world that accepted her because it was afraid of her.”

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233. “Biffy didn’t like enigmas – they were out of fashion.”

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234. “Lord Maccon believed that if his trousers were on his legs, and something else was on his torso, he was dressed. The less done after that, the better. His wife had been startled to find that in the summertime, he actually went around their room barefoot! Once – and only once, mind you – he even attempted to join her for tea in such a state. Impossible man. Alexia put a stop to that posthaste.”

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235. “Apparently, gentlemen not only liked to kiss and touch women everywhere, they did that and more, on a regular basis, and mostly not with ladies at all, but with women of less genteel breeding. Some gentlemen, her brothers had whispered, even did it with each other. Although this was considered quite uncouth, Sophronia gathered, once one left Eton.”

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236. “Oh, Sophronia, thank goodness. Save me? Please? All those young girls, in pastels, talking about the weather. I shall go jump off a bridge, I swear I shall. Do you have bridges in Wiltshire? They chatter, they chatter worse than Dimity ever did. Oh, the chattering! The chattering, it haunts me.”

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237. “Alexia was rather strapping. He preferred her that way. Undersized women reminded him of yippy dogs.”

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238. “Percy has a cat, named Footnote. Or as Virgil put it, Footnote has a human, named Percy.”

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239. “Yes?” Percy did not try to tame the grumpiness in his voice. He hated to be disturbed while he was reading. Of course, he was always reading, but that did not signify.”

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240. “I like fish,” chirruped Tunstell. Felicity drew his attention immediately back to herself. “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.”

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241. “And so, for the first time, a gentleman is throwing me over. How unexpected. What sensation does this engender in me? Am I saddened? Is my heart crushed? No, that’s more likely hunger. It’s been ages since luncheon. Oh well.”

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242. “Acknowledgements With grateful thanks to the three least-appreciated and hardest-working proselytizers of the written word: independent bookstores, librarians, and teachers.”

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243. “She investigated further: moving along with little kisses down his throat and over his collarbone until she came to the same location on his neck that on hers was currently a decorative black and blue color. She bit him. Hard. Alexia never did anything by halves.”

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244. “Well, I am terribly concerned for your health. One simply should not weigh so much at your age.” Lady Maccon poked at a sagging carrot and wondered if anyone would miss her dear sister were she to be oh-so-gently tipped over the rail of the upper deck.”

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245. “Professor Braithwope was undergoing a very dangerous test indeed. For queen and country, the potentate had said. For science, Sophronia thought.”

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246. “I believe there is a considerable range in the bang of most guns.”

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247. “Algebra was far more interesting when it was a matter of proportioning out mutton chops so as to poison only half of one’s dinner guests and then determining the relative value of purchasing a more expensive, yet more effective, antidote over a home remedy.”

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248. “Consider the necessary, analyze the consequences, clean up the mess.”

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249. “Gavin felt his request was greatly daring – her gun was still within reach.”

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

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