"Second thought" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... perhaps seem absurd to you, and it will certainly seem egotistical, but I consider myself sociable, for all that I have only a couple of friends,—my father and the principal of the school. That is, I mingle with women without any second thought. Not that I wish you to do so: on the contrary, if the contrary is natural to you. But I don't believe you mingle in the same way with men. You may ask me what I know about it. Of course I know nothing: ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 • Various
... so far as the paltry settlement went. At all events, it was a satisfaction to Colin McKeith's shrewd Scotch mind that nobody insisted upon getting the better of him in the matter. He knew that Bridget never gave it a second thought. She was much more interested in the social and racial problems of this new country of her adoption, and especially in the blacks. What time she could spare from her trousseau she spent in reading books about them, which some of her official friends got her from the Parliamentary ...
— Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land • Rosa Praed
... should the worth of each oblation tell? Now as poor Jachin took the usual round, And saw the alms and heard the metal sound, He had a thought—at first it was no more Than—"these have cash and give it to the poor." A second thought from this to work began - "And can they give it to a poorer man?" Proceeding thus,—"My merit could they know; And knew my need, how freely they'd bestow; But though they know not, these remain the same, And are a strong, although a secret claim: ...
— The Borough • George Crabbe
... too late to hunt up a regular boarding place, and upon second thought Hal resolved for the present to put up at one of ...
— The Missing Tin Box - or, The Stolen Railroad Bonds • Arthur M. Winfield
... be equally bound to establish a communication, with pecuniary emolument, to the North Pole, in case I discovered that, his remark, that this was the Nile, and had nothing to do with the North Pole, was so forcible and pertinent, that I felt ashamed of my suggestion; and upon second thought, that idea of the dinner and procession really had a good deal in it. I had been in New York, and knew the length of Broadway; and at the recollection, felt flattered by the thought of being conveyed in an open chariot drawn by four or even eight horses, ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 30, April, 1860 • Various
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