Hisselpenny Quotes

#1. Knowing Miss Hisselpenny's constitution, if the mummy were gruesome enough, dinner might just be revisited.

Gail Carriger

#2. Mr. Haverbink bowed deeply, muscles rippling all up and down his back, and lumbered from the room. Miss Hisselpenny sighed and fluttered her fan. "Ah, for the countryside, what scenery there abides ... , " quoth she. Miss Tarabotti giggled. "Ivy, what a positively wicked thing to say. Bravo.

Gail Carriger

#3. Why Alexia that is quite beautiful. It does ot reflect your customary taste at all approved Miss Hisselpenny with glee. Trust Ivy to like the hideous thing for it's looks.

Gail Carriger

#4. In a desperate bid to reestablish civilized talk and decorum, Miss Hisselpenny said, quite loudly, I see they are bringing in the fish course. What a pleasant surprise. I do so love fish. Don't you Mr., uh, Dubh. It is so very, um, salty.

Gail Carriger

#5. Ivy Hisselpenny was the unfortunate victim of circumstances that dictated she be only-just-pretty, only-just-wealthy, and possessed of a terrible propensity for wearing extremely silly hats.

Gail Carriger

#6. We're all better off ... when we're all better off.

Eric Liu

#7. Female Chauvinist Pigs don't bother to question the criteria on which women are judged, they are too busy judging other women themselves

Ariel Levy

#8. What I do not know, I do not think I know.

Socrates

#9. People who were not active in the intellectual life of the country could go on without feeling restricted, except they could not go where they wanted. They could not cross the border to the West whenever they liked.

Stefan Heym

#10. What Christopher Nolan and I have done with 'Superman' is try to bring the same naturalistic approach that we adopted for the 'Batman' trilogy. We always had a naturalistic approach; we want our stories to be rooted in reality, like they could happen in the same world we live in.

David S.Goyer

#11. I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose.

Jeffery Deaver

#12. She pulled a small box from her pocket.
"There's one more task," Aelin said, holding the box out to Lysandra. "You'll probably hate me for it later. But you can start by saying yes."
"Proposing to me? How unexpected.

Sarah J. Maas

#13. His sense of humor is purely cheap vaudeville, yet everyone falls for it.

Lisa Lutz

#14. You know, if you hang around this earth long enough you really see how things come full circle.

Patti Davis

#15. He's also pretty good looking. Okay more than good looking. He's hot-like, the kind of hot that makes you stop walking in the street and get hit by traffic.

Richelle Mead

#16. I had nothing left to give.
I not only had nothing left to give, I just had nothing.
And I was going to keep it that way.
If you had nothing, you couldn't feel more pain because you had nothing left to lose.

Kristen Ashley

#17. Every book is a great action and every great action is a book!

Martin Luther