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.

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

Trust is a lot to ask of someone.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

looking for the pi in my onion

I never trust people's assertions, I always judge of them by their actions.

There is no difference in souls, only the ideas about ourselves that we wear.

You will never know God's strength until He has supported you in deep waters.

I have criticisms of Ronald Reagan, but he lives in another universe from the kind of political theater that is represented by people, like Sarah Palin, who aren't really public servants.

Peace is not in itself a dream, but we know it only as the result of a momentary equilibrium--an accident.

Geneva has the sleepy tidiness of a man who combs his hair while yet in his pyjamas.

What we are seeing is there is a lot of anger out there about the failure of the government to resolve the immigration crisis.

Publicity is absolutely critical. A good PR story is infinitely more effective than a front page ad.

Sir, I think all Christians, whether Papists or Protestants, agree in the essential articles, and that their differences are trivial, and rather political than religious.