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Possessed Quotes by Gail Carriger
- 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.
- She would have colored gracefully with embarrassment had she not possessed the complexion of one of those “heathen Italians,†as her mother said, who never…
- Please, Lord Maccon, use one of the cups. My delicate sensibilities.†The earl actually snorted. “My dear Miss Tarabotti, if you possessed any such things,…
- Really, Alexia, what could have possessed you to attach yourself to the side of the ship in such a juvenile fashion? It is positively barnacle-like.
More Possessed Quotes
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed. — Charles Baudelaire
- Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies… — Joseph Addison
- A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed… — Joseph Addison
- I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words,… — Joseph Addison
- Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed. — Edmund Burke
- Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed. — Dale Carnegie