Manners Mutiny Quotes

#1. A great large book is a great evil.

Joseph Addison

#2. After every unladylike action, there must be an equal and opposite reaction. Consider the necessary, analyze the consequences, clean up the mess.

Gail Carriger

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

Gail Carriger

#4. My mother and I could always look out the same window without ever seeing the same thing.

Gloria Swanson

#5. It is a valuable thing for an intelligencer to be forgotten.

Gail Carriger

#6. Those baby blues slid over him, from his chest to his feet and back up, as if he were merchandise she hadn't yet decided to buy. "I need a man."

Jackson bit back a miserable groan. The woman would be the death of him.

J.M. Stewart

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

Gail Carriger

#8. The way is yours for the asking - the way is yours for the taking. The way is as it should be.

Karen Hackel

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

Gail Carriger

#10. I was distracted suddenly from these pleasant thoughts by noticing that, like the eyes in certain portraits, Heather's nipples seemed to have the uncanny ability to follow you around the room. This is the kind of observation that once made, cannot be unmade. Unfortunately.

Kate Atkinson

#11. It didn't feel sporting to shoot at a crazy person, even if that person was a vampire who'd agreed to the job.

Gail Carriger

#12. Trust is a lot to ask of someone.

Gail Carriger

#13. Evil genius-ness was like that--showy.

Gail Carriger

#14. 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

#15. There was no way she was staying trapped with tea at a time like this.

Gail Carriger

#16. I just can't muster up enough pride for a town whose most cosmopolitan area is the Taco Bell car park on a saturday night

Chris Colfer

#17. Rather than risk starting their own businesses, most people seek safer environments, preferring job security to freedom and a steady paycheck to greater wealth. Their fear of failing is greater than the joy of freedom.

Robert Kiyosaki

#18. The more you learn about the dignity of the gorilla, the more you want to avoid people.

Dian Fossey

#19. He might have lost his mind, but never his fashion sense.

Gail Carriger

#20. I started a publishing company just so I could get the phone numbers of everyone that I'd ever admired.

Chris Roberson

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

Gail Carriger

#22. It seems to me the structure of the Quartets is too imposed.

Paul Muldoon

#23. Tonight I crash an airship. On purpose.

Gail Carriger