Quotes About Dimity

#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. 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

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

Gail Carriger

#4. 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

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

Gail Carriger

#6. 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

#7. 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

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

Gail Carriger

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

Gail Carriger

#10. I don't think you have to make this choice about being on one side or the other side. My feeling is that when we are committed to growing the economy and making sure that our public employees have a place at the table through collective bargaining, everyone wins.

Mary Burke

#11. 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

#12. We're not passengers on Spaceship Earth. We're the crew.

Rusty Schweickart

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

Gail Carriger

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

Gail Carriger

#15. Every woman knows that any man engaging in street harassment can switch to anger very quickly and that anger goes to rage and their rage is their masculinity being threatened. We're scared for good reason.

Rose McGowan

#16. But everything takes a different shape when we pass from abstractions to reality. In the former, everything must be subject to optimism, and we must imagine the one side as well as the other striving after perfection and even attaining it. Will this ever take place in reality?

Carl Von Clausewitz

#17. My favorite thing about being engaged is your partner knowing what you want. For us, we love going out to eat.

Waka Flocka Flame

#18. 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

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

Gail Carriger