"Lord Maccon reflected upon the state of his……" — Gail Carriger
"Lord Maccon reflected upon the state of his life wherein he had somehow gained a spouse who could not give a pig's foot for the latest dresses out of Paris but who whined about not owning an aethographic transmitter. Well, at least the two were comparable obsessions so far as expense was concerned."
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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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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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In so doing, the idea forces itself upon him that religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis, and he is…
— Sigmund Freud
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Faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.
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