Hisselpenny's Quotes

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

Gail Carriger

#2. You know, you don't have to look like everybody else to be acceptable and to feel acceptable.

Fred Rogers

#3. 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

#4. Remember when Jesus was hanging out with that one dude that kept messing up his life with sin and Jesus was like "You are a dumb sinner, I am totally going to judge you!"

Yeah, me neither. I wonder sometimes if all Christians are really reading the same Bible.

Jonathan Welton

#5. 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

#6. Someday, Will, I will go where none can follow me, and I think it will be sooner rather than later. Have you ever asked yourself why I agreed to be your parabatai?

Cassandra Clare

#7. 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

#8. What you gain another will lose, for What is there is all there is. What you share another will have, for What is there is enough for all.

Rohan Perera

#9. Ecstasy is orchestrating the body, into a beautiful song, that sings the praises of the heart and soul.

Jaeda DeWalt

#10. Sometimes it feels like you're losing, but even when you're losing, you're getting something.

Eliza Dushku

#11. I enjoy seeing young people being interested in what they can do.

Billy Higgins

#12. 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

#13. The more fashionable doctors in Italy, began to delegate to slaves the manual attentions they deemed necessary for their patients ... that the art of medicine went to ruin.

Andreas Vesalius