"Wishy-washy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... bad humours, we earnestly urge A dose, night and morning, of Russell's new Purge; Not the old wishy-washy affair of the fixture, But ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 364, February 1846 • Various
... target with her hand; it went round with beautiful ease; the swivel had been oiled to perfection. She almost wished to take old Plomacy at his word, to get on a side-saddle and have a tilt at it herself. What must a young man be, thought she, who could prefer maundering among laurel trees with a wishy-washy school-girl to such fun as this? "Well," said she aloud to herself, "one man can take a horse to water, but a thousand can't make him drink. There it is. If they haven't the spirit to enjoy it, the fault shan't be mine;" and so she returned to ...
— Barchester Towers • Anthony Trollope
... up still more. If his favourite aunt had the bad taste to throw over a promising football nephew for anything so wishy-washy as a lover, it was consoling to know that the wisher- washer might include an aeroplane. "Perhaps he'll take us up one of these days if we behave nicely about Aunt Polly-wolly-doodle," he said hopefully; "that is, if there really is anything ...
— The Happy Adventurers • Lydia Miller Middleton
... that," he said huskily. "You're all Gower. There's real stuff in you. You're free of that damned wishy-washy Morton blood. She made a poodle dog of Norman, but she couldn't spoil you. ...
— Poor Man's Rock • Bertrand W. Sinclair |
