Doubt Quote by Gail Carriger

“He felt like a character in a book. He thought of Mary Lennox as she discovered her secret garden. The blackberry bushes had become…

— Kate Morton

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…

— Gail Carriger

“The gods always smiled on Watt, though. When the wildlings knocked him off the Bridge of Skulls, somehow he landed in a nice deep…

— George R.R. Martin

“Tell the wee hag who we are, lads,” said the helmet twiddler. There was the scrape of many small swords being drawn and thrust…

— Terry Pratchett

But no sooner had morning broken than he took hold of his whip and ceremoniously stepped out to address his slaves. Each blow was…

— Juhani Peltonen

“It wasna a man,’ said Andrew Kerr broadly. ‘T’was my aunty. I tellt ye. I’m no risking cauld steel in ma wame for a…

— Dorothy Dunnett

Jack the Ripper may not have had all the answers but he was always prepared to have a stab in the dark.

— Anonymous

“Highlanders, driving their "creagh" toward Balquhidder, passed, their moccasin-clad feet leaving as little impress on the mist as they had left in life upon…

— R.B. Cunninghame Graham

Ned made a tremendous rattling, at which Bullet took fright, broke his bridle, and dashed off in grand style; and would have stopped all…

— Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

“The outrage which greeted the announcement that the Scottish Arts Council had awarded me a Writer's Bursary to complete this book scrutinising the MacCrimmon…

— Alistair Campsie

Now what happens?" asked the man in black. "We face each other as God intended," Fezzik said. "No tricks, no weapons, skill against skill…

— William Goldman

I buried him with mine own hands, in a place he showed me once when I was a squire at Storm’s End. No one…

— Anonymous