"Priggish" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... curate; there was really nothing questionable in that, but he was just slightly prejudiced against a man who made such a quotation; it sounded a little priggish. ...
— Orientations • William Somerset Maugham
... a pity," Annabel said. "He wants to settle something on you, I believe. It is really amusing. He lives in constant dread of a reappearance of 'La Belle Alcide,' and hearing it said that she is his wife's sister. Bit priggish, isn't it? And if he only knew it—so absurd. Tell me how you are earning your living here, Anna—typewriting, or painting, or ...
— Anna the Adventuress • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... Savonarola's anger, upon the hideous and extravagant character of the crimes which polluted the palaces of the Renaissance. But they need not be so anxious to show that Savonarola was no ascetic, that he merely picked out the black specks of wickedness with the priggish enlightenment of a member of an Ethical Society. Probably he did hate the civilisation of his time, and not merely its sins; and that is precisely where he was infinitely more profound than a modern moralist. He saw that the actual crimes were not ...
— Twelve Types • G.K. Chesterton |
