Manners & Mutiny Quotes

“A lady must always be prepared. Snacks are an essential part of espionage.” Sophronia”
― Gail Carriger, Manners & Mutiny

“A girl wearing a wicker chicken and playing the harp bopped me with a book about buns and then stuffed me under a piano.”
― Gail Carriger, Manners & Mutiny

“He wants to know why my marks aren’t better. Why I don’t speak fluent French. Why I can’t kill a fully grown man with a nutcracker.”
― Gail Carriger, Manners & Mutiny

“After every unladylike action, there must be an equal and opposite reaction. Consider the necessary, analyze the consequences, clean up the mess.”
― Gail Carriger, Manners & Mutiny

“He might have lost his mind, but never his fashion sense.”
― Gail Carriger, Manners & Mutiny

“As much as she was enjoying it, Dimity would always rather talk about reading than actually read.”
― Gail Carriger, Manners & Mutiny

“Oh, yes? Then explain the melancholy.’ ‘Perhaps I’m bored.’ ‘With what?’ asked Agatha. ‘Oh, you know. Flirting, pretty dress, espionage… death.”
― Gail Carriger, Manners & Mutiny

“It is a valuable thing for an intelligencer to be forgotten.”
― Gail Carriger, Manners & Mutiny

“Consider the necessary, analyze the consequences, clean up the mess.”
― Gail Carriger, Manners & Mutiny

“Shut your cake hole, you revolting young blot.”
― Gail Carriger, Manners & Mutiny

“We like the shadows. That's where all the power is.”
― Gail Carriger, Manners & Mutiny

“A ball, at last!” Dimity Plumleigh-Teignmott sank back into her chair in delight.”
― Gail Carriger, Manners & Mutiny

“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, Manners & Mutiny

“Truth be told, even with Sophronia’s arm muscles, vampires could hurl her a great deal farther than Sophronia could hurl vampires. A great tragedy of life, no doubt. The”
― Gail Carriger, Manners & Mutiny

“We're a team like tea and milk, or cake and custard, or pork and apple.”
― Gail Carriger, Manners & Mutiny

“There was no way she was staying trapped with tea at a time like this.”
― Gail Carriger, Manners & Mutiny

“Trust is a lot to ask of someone.”
― Gail Carriger, Manners & Mutiny

“I have always been hers. Although she is taking her time accepting it.” “I”
― Gail Carriger, Manners & Mutiny

“Stupid little boys should learn to use guns and not wave them around.”
― Gail Carriger, Manners & Mutiny

“I hate missing everything. That's why I want to marry well and be a grand lady. Then I can host all the parties, all the time, and see everything that is going on always. How can you stand not knowing?”
― Gail Carriger, Manners & Mutiny

“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, Manners & Mutiny

“And so we glide in on the wisps of receding fog, emerging out of the white with the rays of the dying sun highlighting all our puffy majesty.' Dimity was moved by loss to muttering poetic twaddle.”
― Gail Carriger, Manners & Mutiny

“No, miss, friendship would be a finish.”
― Gail Carriger, Manners & Mutiny

“I was rather hoping we could live happily in sin for a very long time.”
― Gail Carriger, Manners & Mutiny

“Tonight I crash an airship. On purpose.”
― Gail Carriger, Manners & Mutiny

“For you, it's gossip. For me, it's action.”
― Gail Carriger, Manners & Mutiny

“Evil genius-ness was like that--showy.”
― Gail Carriger, Manners & Mutiny

“All were annoyed with life, except, of course, those who were dead. The werewolves stacked them neatly in three piles—dead, not dead, and snack-sized.”
― Gail Carriger, Manners & Mutiny

“No one at the table was surprised. They were old hats at this kind of thing. Perhaps not old hats, but instead, they were last season’s gloves, soiled but still suited to any occasion, including inclement weather and dead body disposal.”
― Gail Carriger, Manners & Mutiny

“Falling out of the sky was one thing, but doing so for unknown reasons was quite unacceptable. Having”
― Gail Carriger, Manners & Mutiny