"As with most things in life, Lady Maccon……" — Gail Carriger
"As with most things in life, Lady Maccon preferred the civilized exterior to the dark underbelly (with the exception of pork products, of course.)"
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170 Quotes by Gail Carriger
Gail Carriger has 170 quotes on this site.
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A vampire, like a lady, never reveals his true age.
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Lord Maccon was built like a brick outhouse, with opinions twice as unmoving and often equally full of crap.
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How was I to know idiocy was only a temporary condition, especially in your case? It never has been before!
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Who doesn’t want an exploding wicker chicken?
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I suspect it may be like the difference between a drinker and an alcoholic; the one merely reads books, the…
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Lord Akeldama did so love to know all the gossip about the mundane world, but it was in the manner…
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The duke contents himself mainly with attempting to rule the world and other suchlike nonsense. When one is guiding the…
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I may be a werewolf and Scottish, but despite what you may have read about both, we are not cads!
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Alexia figured, delightedly, that this meant he did, in fact, tend to traipse around his private apartments in the altogether.…
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The ill-informed masses included her own family among their ranks, a family that specialized in being both inconvenient and asinine.
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Alexia suspected Lord Maccon's handling was a tad more than was strictly called for under the circumstances, but she secretly…
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He was so very large and so very gruff that he rather terrified her, but he always behaved correctly in…
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Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must - must - redistribute wealth from the…
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Britons are good, though often brutal, colonists where they come into relations with entirely uncivilized tribes whose past is so…
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The snake kills by squeezing very slowly. This is how the civilized world slowly, slowly pushes into the forest and…
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I have this feeling that as time goes on, we're not getting any more civilized, and we should be. We're…
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As life in general constituted much pain in the form of struggles against poverty, disease, ignorance, and emotional anguish, what…
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I am now speaking of rights under the Constitution, and not of moral or religious rights. I do not discuss…
— Stephen A. Douglas
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In any civilized society, it is every citizen's responsibility to obey just laws. But at the same time, it is…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.
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We are about to make motherhood a crime. No civilized government in the history of mankind has ever done this.
— Unknown Author
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But however secure and well-regulated civilized life may become, bacteria, Protozoa, viruses, infected fleas, lice, ticks, mosquitoes, and bedbugs will…
— Hans Zinsser
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The most pressing question on the problem of faith is whether a man as a civilized being can believe in…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Goverment is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those…
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