Timeless Quotes

“I never gossip. I observe. And then relay my observations to practically everyone.”
― Gail Carriger, Timeless

“Scotsmen, she had occasion to observe, often did have nice knees. Perhaps that was why they insisted upon kilts.”
― Gail Carriger, Timeless

“Ever since her trip with Alexia to Scotland, Mrs. Tunstell had rather a taste for foreign travel. Alexia blamed it on the kilts.”
― Gail Carriger, Timeless

“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, Timeless

“Biffy didn't like enigmas - they were out of fashion.”
― Gail Carriger, Timeless

“My Hallway" remarked Lord Akeldama,"Has never seen such lively action. And That, my sugarplums, is saying something!”
― Gail Carriger, Timeless

“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, Timeless

“Biffy said, off the cuff, "Or we could find a replacement queen."
"Volunteering for the position?"
"Why, Professor, is that wittiness I detect?"
"Only for you."
"Charmer." Biffy tapped him on the arm playfully.”
― Gail Carriger, Timeless

“He dinna act like an Alpha."

"He does in some areas.”
― Gail Carriger, Timeless

“Alexia abhorred hypocrisy, especially when munitions were involved.”
― Gail Carriger, Timeless

“Well, do be careful, my love. Poetry can cause irreparable harm when misapplied.”
― Gail Carriger, Timeless

“Why, Mr. Biffy, you talk such scandal."
"You wrong me, Madame Lefoux. I never gossip. I observe. And then relay my observations to practically everyone.”
― Gail Carriger, Timeless

“Poetry can cause irreparable harm when misapplied”
― Gail Carriger, Timeless

“Oh, Major, you do so love to annoy, don't you?"
"It is the stuff of living, my lady.”
― Gail Carriger, Timeless

“He also grew a very large and scruffy beard, with which she was far less delighted.
"A man's virility is in his beard," he insisted.
To which Alexia replied, "And a woman's is in her décolletage. Yet you don't see me allowing mine to get out of control, now do you?"
"If wishes were balloons," was his only response.”
― Gail Carriger, Timeless

“Not Alec Weebs? Never!” Biffy was appreciatively shocked.”
― Gail Carriger, Timeless

“That was a remarkable display of whatnot.”
― Gail Carriger, Timeless

“Alexia was not a particularly musical person, and her husband, a noted opera singer in his human days, had once described her bath time warbling as those of a deranged badger.”
― Gail Carriger, Timeless

“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, Timeless

“He was awfully good at being aristocratic. Alexia, on the other hand, was only good at being autocratic. Not quite the same thing.”
― Gail Carriger, Timeless

“You wrong me, Madame Lefoux. I never gossip. I observe. And then relay my observations to practically everyone.” The”
― Gail Carriger, Timeless

“It was universally held among the drones that Lord Maccon had a particularly fine physique, and there had been quite the scuffle over who would be allowed to dress him in the evenings. After Floote assumed that role, it became a trickster's challenge to ascertain who among the boys could arrange such little incidences as would cause the London Alpha to bluster out into the hallway in the altogether of an afternoon.”
― Gail Carriger, Timeless

“Biffy was tolerably more disturbed by the fact that he had developed a cowlick while sleeping that would to lie flat no matter what he did.”
― Gail Carriger, Timeless

“...there were ladies who would travel miles in order to have a handsome young werewolf refuse to sell them a hat.”
― Gail Carriger, Timeless

“Are you certain they will manage without me?” “We will be back in only a few hours. How bad can it get?” “Don’t tempt fate, my love.”
― Gail Carriger, Timeless

“A man’s virility is in his beard,” he insisted.”
― Gail Carriger, Timeless