"Fatuousness" Quotes from Famous Books
... when she sprained her ankle—a gambit I had imagined demode even with the most provincial of heroines. However, Jacynth married the novelist, and after the honeymoon settled down to a steady course of fatuousness and general interference with his work which presently reduced the poor man to exasperation, and finally constrained him to pack her off on a prolonged visit to the seaside home of her maidenhood. After that Jacynth went from worse to worst; too preposterous a fool even to be greatly ... — Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 8, 1914 • Various |