Trust is a lot to ask of someone.

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

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.

To utter a word? no that will only heavy the air you breath, for your eyes speak more then your pretty mouth

Against delay. Against the way that seems easier. Against refusal of the burden that is laid on me. Against - well, if it must be said, against trust in the strength and truth of Men.

Some people need significance more than they need another person. Change will only happen in a relationship when you realize it is not the person, but the "emotion" you desire.

Pain is inevitable suffering is optional.

There is no reason why the women of the country should not greatly advance themselves.

The real reason we haven't had peace is because of a persistent refusal of the Palestinians to recognize a Jewish state in any border.

Traditional morality ... does not teach us how to let the other follow his or her own path, meet with whomever he or she desires, go where he or she wants.

If you disclose your alms, even then it is well done, but if you keep them secret, and give them to the poor, then that is better still for you;?and this wipes off from you some of your evil deeds.

Economic gross is making us fat.

Darkroom work had, after all, never interested me except as a means to an end; the place I wanted to be was outside in the light.