Defy or Defend Quotes

“Rearranging furniture was leagues better than seducing people.”
― Gail Carriger, Defy or Defend

“Werewolves took to Sherwood Forest, started robbing noblemen, inventing ridiculous nicknames for themselves, and gallivanting about in overly tight hosiery. But the vampires, they went underground.”
“Gracious,” said Dimity, “I’d no idea. I mean to say, I’d heard about the Sherwood werewolves, of course – who hasn’t? Didn’t they wear hoods with feathers in, or some such rot?”
― Gail Carriger, Defy or Defend

“Desperately Dimity mentioned badminton. I mean to say, who doesn’t have opinions on badminton? Everyone has opinions on badminton.”
― Gail Carriger, Defy or Defend

“She might recommend blowing up Big Ben and replacing it with a spun sugar poodle and Professor Meeld-Forrison would merely say, ”Mum-hum.”

Dimity Plumleigh-Teignmott.”
― Gail Carriger, Defy or Defend

“She’d never judge. She wasn’t remotely like that. She’d judge a man’s throw pillows, but not his family.”
― Gail Carriger, Defy or Defend

“Goodness me! This drone seems delightfully salacious. Highly sexed young gentlemen with delusions of stage talent are some of my favorites. So full of pride and so easy to manipulate because of it. I once entertained starting an occult recruitment movement, collecting them for a cause of some kind. They’re so impressionable and there are so very many of them in London these days. Then I realized, that’s what werewolves are for. And, honestly, do I have the time to spearhead a cult? I ask you. No, I do not.”
Sir Crispin was staring at her in a sort of awed disgust. “The working of your mind is a thing of great beauty and profound horror.”
“Why, thank you. What a nice thing to say!” Dimity was thrilled.”
― Gail Carriger, Defy or Defend

“As Justice would have it, we should all be so lucky as to go wafting about dramatically in a trailing nightgown on occasion.”
― Gail Carriger, Defy or Defend

“Cooked sausage, up and down, halfway between cat’s tail and cricket bat. With something to make it smooth, like oil or face cream.”
― Gail Carriger, Defy or Defend

“The supernatural is all very well and good, but it mustn’t be allowed to get untidy. What we have here is a veritable horror.”
“Why do you think they call it going to Goth?”
“Well, I intend to put a stop to it.”
― Gail Carriger, Defy or Defend