Temeraire Wiki Quotes & Sayings

This young woman," he indicated Miss Wintertowne, "she has, I dare say, all the usual accomplishments and virtues? She was graceful? Witty? Vivacious? Capricious? Danced like sunlight? Rode ilk the wind? Sang like an angel? Embroidered like Penelope? Spoke French, Italian, German, Breton, Welsh and many other languages?"
Mr. Norrell said he supposed so. He believed that those were the sorts of things young ladies did nowadays. — Susanna Clarke

Now you will have noticed that nothing throws him into a passion so easily as to find a tract of time which he reckoned on having at his own disposal unexpectedly taken from him. — C.S. Lewis

Sank or plundered. The sums are the scoundrel's share, — Robert Louis Stevenson

Often, M.B.A.s will parachute around from one company or industry to another, without really understanding what's behind it. — Henry Mintzberg

There were lines people drew in their lives, and subsequently, they thought of everything else as having happened "before" and "after" those points. — Susan Jane Bigelow