"Washy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of human nature, their idealism, and their imagination were restricted to the traditional views of English country gentlemen of the Tory school. Anything outside that range of thought was to them heresy, treason, or wishy-washy sentiment. ...
— Now It Can Be Told • Philip Gibbs
... diamonded ladies, and their imagination is fed from the fountains of vulgar literature until they dream that they, too, are destined to be won by some splendid cavalier of fabulous wealth. Learning from the wishy-washy literature that their face is their fortune, and so, reading what happened to others, and how perfectly lovely and romantic it all was, they are ready for the wiles of the first gay deceiver. Waiting in vain for their god-like ideal, they are finally content to look a little ...
— Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations • William Howe
... I know it's all right," he blundered ahead tactlessly—the gleam in her eye should have warned him that he might have omitted that reassurance—"but just the looks of the thing. And he's such a weak and wishy-washy little nonentity!" ...
— The Gray Dawn • Stewart Edward White
... have. And I have met with young girls of something the same stamp as yourself, who ran away from home duties to visit in the slums, and because they despise men of the world, lavish all their love and adoration on a wishy-washy curate, who very often encourages them, and then gives them the slip in the end, sending them back to their homes sadder and wiser women. My sister has cause for thankfulness that there is ...
— Dwell Deep - or Hilda Thorn's Life Story • Amy Le Feuvre
... Syd, sir. Of course I'd forgotten it. Got so wishy-washy with so much water, that I can't ...
— Syd Belton - The Boy who would not go to Sea • George Manville Fenn
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