Quotes from Manners & Mutiny

“A lady must always be prepared. Snacks are an essential part of espionage.” Sophronia”
― Gail Carriger, quote from Manners & Mutiny

“He wants to know why my marks aren’t better. Why I don’t speak fluent French. Why I can’t kill a fully grown man with a nutcracker.”
― Gail Carriger, quote from Manners & Mutiny

“A girl wearing a wicker chicken and playing the harp bopped me with a book about buns and then stuffed me under a piano.”
― Gail Carriger, quote from Manners & Mutiny

“Oh, yes? Then explain the melancholy.’ ‘Perhaps I’m bored.’ ‘With what?’ asked Agatha. ‘Oh, you know. Flirting, pretty dress, espionage… death.”
― Gail Carriger, quote from Manners & Mutiny

“A ball, at last!” Dimity Plumleigh-Teignmott sank back into her chair in delight.”
― Gail Carriger, quote from Manners & Mutiny

“As much as she was enjoying it, Dimity would always rather talk about reading than actually read.”
― Gail Carriger, quote from Manners & Mutiny

“No, miss, friendship would be a finish.”
― Gail Carriger, quote from Manners & Mutiny

“I have always been hers. Although she is taking her time accepting it.” “I”
― Gail Carriger, quote from Manners & Mutiny

“After every unladylike action, there must be an equal and opposite reaction. Consider the necessary, analyze the consequences, clean up the mess.”
― Gail Carriger, quote from Manners & Mutiny

“It is a valuable thing for an intelligencer to be forgotten.”
― Gail Carriger, quote from Manners & Mutiny

“Truth be told, even with Sophronia’s arm muscles, vampires could hurl her a great deal farther than Sophronia could hurl vampires. A great tragedy of life, no doubt. The”
― Gail Carriger, quote from Manners & Mutiny

“He might have lost his mind, but never his fashion sense.”
― Gail Carriger, quote from Manners & Mutiny

“Consider the necessary, analyze the consequences, clean up the mess.”
― Gail Carriger, quote from Manners & Mutiny

“Shut your cake hole, you revolting young blot.”
― Gail Carriger, quote from Manners & Mutiny

“We're a team like tea and milk, or cake and custard, or pork and apple.”
― Gail Carriger, quote from Manners & Mutiny

“We like the shadows. That's where all the power is.”
― Gail Carriger, quote from Manners & Mutiny

“I was rather hoping we could live happily in sin for a very long time.”
― Gail Carriger, quote from Manners & Mutiny

“Stupid little boys should learn to use guns and not wave them around.”
― Gail Carriger, quote from Manners & Mutiny

“Sophronia felt bound to object. "I, for one, should prefer not to shoot at someone I like."
"Admirable scruples, Miss Temminnick. Get over them. For you will do it anyway.”
― Gail Carriger, quote from Manners & Mutiny

“And so we glide in on the wisps of receding fog, emerging out of the white with the rays of the dying sun highlighting all our puffy majesty.' Dimity was moved by loss to muttering poetic twaddle.”
― Gail Carriger, quote from Manners & Mutiny

“I hate missing everything. That's why I want to marry well and be a grand lady. Then I can host all the parties, all the time, and see everything that is going on always. How can you stand not knowing?”
― Gail Carriger, quote from Manners & Mutiny

“There was no way she was staying trapped with tea at a time like this.”
― Gail Carriger, quote from Manners & Mutiny

“Falling out of the sky was one thing, but doing so for unknown reasons was quite unacceptable. Having”
― Gail Carriger, quote from Manners & Mutiny

“Tonight I crash an airship. On purpose.”
― Gail Carriger, quote from Manners & Mutiny

“It didn't feel sporting to shoot at a crazy person, even if that person was a vampire who'd agreed to the job.”
― Gail Carriger, quote from Manners & Mutiny

“Trust is a lot to ask of someone.”
― Gail Carriger, quote from Manners & Mutiny

“For you, it's gossip. For me, it's action.”
― Gail Carriger, quote from Manners & Mutiny

“Please don’t. When you think about things, Sophronia, they only get more complicated. This thing between us could be so very easy, if you let it.”
― Gail Carriger, quote from Manners & Mutiny

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