"Good-for-nothing" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... that. You are not worthy of Anne Mordaunt's love, and therefore have never presumed to imagine that she could bestow it on such a poor, miserable, worthless, good-for-nothing a fellow as yourself. I have a great deal of the same very proper feeling; but, at the same time, each of us is quite confident of his own success, or he would have given up ...
— Satanstoe • James Fenimore Cooper
... rejoined my father in a rage, "by begetting an undutiful, good-for-nothing, graceless, ...
— Japhet, In Search Of A Father • Frederick Marryat
... I believe in Mr. Surrey, and what's more, I believe in Miss Ercildoune,—have reason to; and when I hear anybody mixing her up with these onry, good-for-nothing niggers, it's more'n I can stand, so don't let's have any more of it"; and turning with an air which said that subject was ended, Jim took up his forgotten coffee, pulled apart some brands and put ...
— What Answer? • Anna E. Dickinson
... Mrs. Quirk had absolute confidence in the girl's vocation as a reformer. The old lady was never told of a good-for-nothing son or husband ...
— Grey Town - An Australian Story • Gerald Baldwin
... Shemuel!" moaned Simcha, wringing her hands. "You'd give away the shirt off your skin to a pack of good-for-nothing Schnorrers." ...
— Children of the Ghetto • I. Zangwill
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