"Lord Maccon, being Lord Maccon and good at……" — Gail Carriger
"Lord Maccon, being Lord Maccon and good at such things, then changed, right there in the Thames, from dog-paddling wolf to large man treading water. He did so flawlessly, so that his head never went under the water. Professor Lyall suspected him of practicing such maneuvers in the bathtub."
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Gail Carriger
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170 Quotes by Gail Carriger
Gail Carriger has 170 quotes on this site.
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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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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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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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Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their…
— Erma Bombeck
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I'm from a family of teachers. My father would drown me in the bathtub if my daughter didn't graduate from…
— P. C. Cast
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If you want to catch fish, don’t throw your net into the bathtub.
— Reinhard Bonnke
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I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it…
— Grover Norquist
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Want to hear a sad story about the Dukakis campaign? The governor of Massachusetts, he lost his top naval advisor…
— Dan Quayle
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"Our first conversation was on the phone. I was in the bathtub, and I had to tell him that I…
— Jennifer Lawrence
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Unfortunately, the greatest photographers don't pay extreme attention to the clothes. If they decide to put a dress in a…
— Valentino Garavani
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I wake up around noon, light a cigarette, get a cup of coffee, sit in the bathtub for an hour…
— Hans Zimmer
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It's like, are you kidding me? I'd sell way more if I just put a picture of my face. That's…
— Sky Ferreira
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This guy (Pat Robertson) obviously wants to be a prophet so bad. I wonder if he walks around at home…
— Pat Condell
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Gee, this isn't like I imagined it would be in the bathtub.
— Dianne Wiest
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Writing fiction, especially a long work of fiction, can be a difficult, lonely job; it's like crossing the Atlantic Ocean…
— Stephen King
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