Dimity's Quotes

#1. When I learned of Aunt Dimity's death, I was stunned. Not because she was dead, but because I had never known she'd been alive.

Nancy Atherton

#2. I'm not gonna give the British Government the joy of keeping taxing me. They don't tax art. And all my cars are just a collection of art.

Jay Kay

#3. I thought you were no longer tempted to partake."
"I wasn't, until Preshea came along and stole him away from me."
"Dimity!"
"Well, it's true. I'm a terribly, terribly shallow person."
Pillover nodded into his gruel.

Gail Carriger

#4. Enjoy the ride of a sacred life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#5. Oh, Sophronia, thank goodness. Save me? Please? All those young girls, in pastels, talking about the weather. I shall go jump off a bridge, I swear I shall. Do you have bridges in Wiltshire? They chatter, they chatter worse than Dimity ever did. Oh, the chattering! The chattering, it haunts me.

Gail Carriger

#6. Thinking ... is no more and no less an organ of perception than the eye or ear. Just as the eye perceives colours and the ear sounds, so thinking perceives ideas

Rudolf Steiner

#7. Really, Sophronia, it makes me most uncomfortable how you manage to sort everything out every time I faint.

Gail Carriger

#8. Before the railroad's thin lines of steel bit their way up through the wilderness, Athabasca Landing was the picturesque threshold over which one must step who would enter into the mystery and adventure of the great white North.

James Oliver Curwood

#9. A ball, at last! Dimity Plumleigh-Teignmott sank back into her chair in delight.

Gail Carriger

#10. Kvetching means complaining, and complaining is really what will forever keep New York the city it is.

Sari Botton

#11. What on earth could we girls possibly learn from a werewolf?" Sophronia wondered.
"How to keep a hat on no matter what the circumstances?" hazarded Dimity.

Gail Carriger

#12. 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

#13. When lack of funds prevents hospitals from functioning efficiently and fully, private philanthropy of all kinds must help. The difference it makes in terms of human betterment, represents the kind of happiness that money really can buy.

Henry Townley Heald

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

Gail Carriger

#15. As Dimity said, Sidheag surely does grumpy old man very well for a sixteen-year-old girl.

Gail Carriger

#16. Shut your cake hole, you revolting young blot.

Gail Carriger

#17. While he was in Utah, Obama discussed immigration reform with leaders of the Mormon Church. Obama introduced the first lady. Then the church's president introduced HIS first lady. And his second lady. And his third, fourth, and fifth ladies.

Jimmy Fallon

#18. Sophronia and Dimity took a vacant love seat at the front, Sophronia dislodging a large, fluffy cat with a scrunched-up face. The cat gave her a disgusted look. Or seemed to; it was hard to tell with that face.

Gail Carriger

#19. Happy is he who hath one desire, if that one desire be set on Christ, though it may not yet have been realized.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#20. You need to have a vision greater than yourself.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#21. As much as she was enjoying it, Dimity would always rather talk about reading than actually read.

Gail Carriger

#22. Happiness can not be prescribed, postponed or preserved.

Relish its unpredictability. Cherish its exclusivity. Accept its brevity. But above all savour its delicious exquisiteness. Do not let it go cold!

Dimity Powell

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

Gail Carriger

#24. Some people give memories to your life whereas some give life to your memories.

Nicko Shoid