"Lyall had spent centuries nibbling about the great……" — Gail Carriger
"Lyall had spent centuries nibbling about the great layered cake that was polite society while Lord Akeldama acted the part of the frosting on its top."
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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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I acted in millions of TV shows.
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I always sang, I always acted, I always played.
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I've certainly worked with really great directors who haven't acted.
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I've acted professionally since I was 16.
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