"Playful" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a lamb. Bit playful sometimes, but no more vice in him than there is in an oyster. ...
— Burr Junior • G. Manville Fenn
... childish glee, in painting plates and vases. You will see them, not slavishly copying a given design of the master's, but letting their fancy run riot in lithe curves and lines, in griffons and dragons and floral twists-and-twirls of playful extravagance. They revel in ornament. Now, it is out of the loins of people like these that great artists spring by nature—not State-taught, artificial, made-up artists, but the real spontaneous product, the Lippi and Botticelli, the hereditary craftsmen, the ...
— Post-Prandial Philosophy • Grant Allen
... melt away; I seal'd it too—a pleasing task! With annual joy to mark the glorious day, When in applausive shouts thy name Spread from the theatre around, Floating on thy own Tiber's stream, And Echo, playful nymph, ...
— The Works of Samuel Johnson - Volume IV [The Rambler and The Adventurer] • Samuel Johnson
... (implements of torture used by said son of Satan) had not been leveled in her direction; if certain fans had not been suggestively spread between pairs of feminine heads,—Nora would have been as harmless as a playful kitten. ...
— The Place of Honeymoons • Harold MacGrath
... Really, Mr. PODBURY, if you choose to resent a playful remark in that manner, you had better ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 101, December 19, 1891 • Various
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