"Priggish" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... to his faults," urged Lady Mary, "only I can laugh at them better than you can, because I know all the while that at the very bottom of his heart he's only my baby Peter after all. He's not—God bless him—he's not the dreary, cold-blooded, priggish boy he sometimes pretends to be. Don't remember him like that now, Timothy. Think of that morning in June—that glorious, sunny morning in June, when you knelt by the open window in my room and thanked God because you had a son. Think of that other summer day when we couldn't bear even to ...
— Peter's Mother • Mrs. Henry De La Pasture
... 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
... Mignon La Salle with cool impudence. "You look like that priggish Miss Stevens. I hope for your sake you are not a ...
— Marjorie Dean - High School Sophomore • Pauline Lester
... listen. I'll get into fine form presently. Look!" he said, pointing to the helmet he was holding. "Here is a Cromwellian morion. It was picked up by an ancestor at Naseby. It has a clean cut in it. That's where an honest gentleman's sword found its way into the knave's skull—the puritanical, priggish, canting knave." ...
— Viviette • William J. Locke
... faithful, brave, and true in deed and word"; and I indulged in waking dreams of heroic adventures in quest of fair renown, and to succor the oppressed. All this he encouraged and abetted, though always, too, with a sort of twinkle of the eye, lest I should take myself too seriously and wax priggish. He permitted me to have a breastplate and a helmet with a golden dragon crest (made by our nurse out of pasteboard covered with tinsel-paper), and he bought me a real steel sword with a brass hilt wrought in open-work; I used to spend hours ...
— Hawthorne and His Circle • Julian Hawthorne
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