Lord Akeldama Quotes

#1. Hello, princess," said Lord Maccon to the vampire.
"Got yourself into quite a pickle this time, didn't you?"
Lord Akeldama looked him up and down. "My sweet young naked boy, you are hardly one to talk. Not that I mind, of course.

Gail Carriger

#2. My Hallway" remarked Lord Akeldama,"Has never seen such lively action. And That, my sugarplums, is saying something!

Gail Carriger

#3. Lord Maccon, might we have words on the proper tying of a cravat? For my sanity's sake?
Lord Maccon was nonplussed. Professor Lyall, on the other hand, was pained. "I do what I can." Lord Akeldama looked at him, pity in his eyes. "You are a brave man.

Gail Carriger

#4. The burden of a spy, Lord Akeldama always said, was not in the knowing of things but in knowing when to tell such things to others.

Gail Carriger

#5. Lyall had spent centuries nibbling about the great layered cake that was polite society while Lord Akeldama acted the part of the frosting on its top.

Gail Carriger

#6. What if I arrange to be around Lord Akeldama during the full moon?"
The earl looked daggers.
"I am certain he would be extremely helpful in a fight. He could ruthlessly flatter all your attackers into abject submission.

Gail Carriger

#7. But wait. What blood from yonder mortal drips?" Lord Akeldama misquoted.

Gail Carriger

#8. Lord Akeldama never did anything by halves, especially if he might double it at three times the expense.

Gail Carriger

#9. Elections are a festival of democracy. Everyone must join this festival of democracy and strengthen it.

Narendra Modi

#10. The first reactions are often instinctive. So one of the first things we said was that the Chinese had no right to inspect the plane, and that we had a sovereign right to. I don't know what the legal position is, but it was surely psychologically absolutely the unwise thing to do.

Henry A. Kissinger

#11. It does the things we're also most concerned about. It tries very hard to stay alive. It's motivated to reproduce. It gets hungry and goes to look for food. It gets frightened. Compared to other things in the universe, we and the albatrosses are almost identical.

Carl Safina

#12. I'm not maximized yet.

Ashton Eaton

#13. There was nowhere they could have gone and they went there anyway.

Neil Gaiman

#14. Anyone who has ever achieved anything has been a steward of his potential.

Chris Matakas

#15. You've been four of the dearest, sweetest, goodest girls who ever went together through college,' averred Aunt Jamesina, who never spoiled a compliment by misplaced economy.

L.M. Montgomery

#16. We eat all organic at home, so if we're running around and the kids want a hot dog or pretzel, I'll get it for them.

Kelly Rutherford

#17. My parents told me they knew they made lots of mistakes raising us, but that they did their best. Most parents will say something like that at some point, and they are usually right. But I think children also do their best while being raised. Finding family "happiness" is a fine balancing act.

Torill Kove

#18. Not purpose but chance is at the heart of mental life.

Boris Sidis

#19. The duke contents himself mainly with attempting to rule the world and other suchlike nonsense. When one is guiding the patterns of the social universe, a single spinster preternatural is unlikely to cause one undue distress.

Gail Carriger

#20. We are as a rose unfurling, becoming more clearly ourselves

Renee Ahdieh