Gail Carriger, Manners & Mutiny Quotes

We like the shadows. That's where all the power is.

Trust is a lot to ask of someone.

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.

For you, it's gossip. For me, it's action.

We're a team like tea and milk, or cake and custard, or pork and apple.

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

It didn't feel sporting to shoot at a crazy person, even if that person was a vampire who'd agreed to the job.

After every unladylike action, there must be an equal and opposite reaction. Consider the necessary, analyze the consequences, clean up the mess.

Tonight I crash an airship. On purpose.

He might have lost his mind, but never his fashion sense.

Consider the necessary, analyze the consequences, clean up the mess.