"Officious" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... sense," implored the Cherub, "and help me plan for the Cristobal who is here. If he sits in our box for the processions, Carmona will see him and say to some officious person, very different from Rafael Calmenare, 'who is that young man with the O'Donnels?' And the officious person will answer, 'I never saw him in my life.' 'Ah,' the Duke will exclaim, 'isn't he Cristobal O'Donnel?' 'Not at all,' will come the reply; ...
— The Car of Destiny • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
... you have ever been to a West-end picture shop, you will have suffered some annoyance on looking too attentively at any item in the exhibition, by the approach of an officious attendant, who presses you to purchase it. He begins by flattery; he felicitates you on your choice of the best picture in the room—the one that has been 'universally admired by ...
— Masques & Phases • Robert Ross
... Americans as her friend and herself; but it suited her just then to make this assumption, which was not altogether sincere. It was recommended by the idea that it would get her companion out of the way—out of the way of officious fellow-citizens—till she should be absolutely firm on her feet, and would also give greater intensity to their own long conversation. On that continent of strangers they would cleave more closely still ...
— The Bostonians, Vol. I (of II) • Henry James
... 'I'll talk slow, so that you can understand. Suppose you fell off a pier, and a girl took a great deal of trouble to get you to the shore, would you say, "Much obliged, but you needn't have been so officious. I can swim ...
— The Man Upstairs and Other Stories • P. G. Wodehouse
... Funeral, anecdote of, in Strathspey Funeral, carrying at, or leaning Funeral, extraordinary account of a Scottish, at Carluke Funeral of a laird of Dundonald Funeral, reason for a farmer taking another glass at Funeral, reason for a person being officious at Funeral, taking orders for, on deathbed Funeral, the ...
— Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character • Edward Bannerman Ramsay
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