Finishing School Quotes

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?

Consider the necessary, analyze the consequences, clean up the mess.

He might have lost his mind, but never his fashion sense.

Never talk to waiters like that," Kit said."Can I help it," he said, "if I only went one year to finishing school?""It isn't manners," she said like a sensible schoolteacher quietly disciplining a small boy, "it just isn't smart."I thought of the time I first told him not to say ain't. He took this the same way, a little peeved but making mental notes. I noticed he was never too much of an egotist to take criticism when he knew it would help. It was part of his genius for self-propulsion. I was beginning to see what Kit had for Sammy. Of course she stood for something never within his reach before. But it was more than that. Sammy seemed to know that his career was entering a new cycle where polish paid off. You could almost see him filing off the rough edges against the sharp blade of her mind.

Most girls recently out of finishing school are like soufflés: puffed up, not very substantial inside, and prone to collapsing at the slightest provocation.

After every unladylike action, there must be an equal and opposite reaction. Consider the necessary, analyze the consequences, clean up the mess.

Tonight I crash an airship. On purpose.

It didn't feel sporting to shoot at a crazy person, even if that person was a vampire who'd agreed to the job.

It is a valuable thing for an intelligencer to be forgotten.

We're a team like tea and milk, or cake and custard, or pork and apple.

For you, it's gossip. For me, it's action.

Keep moving in the direction of your dreams. No matter how slows it may seems, stay focus, you will get to the finish line.

Lailah Gifty Akita

With or without money, the work must be done.

Lailah Gifty Akita

We like the shadows. That's where all the power is.