"Piggish" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... piggish, and was resented. Several declared that they could and would find that tree and get every apple on it. Willis laughed and said, "Let ...
— When Life Was Young - At the Old Farm in Maine • C. A. Stephens
... form, are now working in the Greek school of Phidias; but Turner is true Greek, for he is thinking only of the truth about the swan; and De Wit is pseudo-Greek, for he is thinking not of the swan at all, but of his own Dutch self. And so he has ended in making, with his essentially piggish nature, this sleeping swan's neck as nearly as possible like ...
— Lectures on Landscape - Delivered at Oxford in Lent Term, 1871 • John Ruskin
... being over, and divers persons of piggish solemnity of aspect dispersing, two of the latter detach themselves from the rest and try an easy lounge around toward a side door of the building, as though willing to be taken by the outer world for a couple of unimpeachable low-church gentlemen who merely happened to be in that neighborhood ...
— Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 11, June 11, 1870 • Various
... the minimum amount of inconvenience to myself that his circumstances allow. Many folks make what they are pleased to call unconventionality a mere cloak for selfish disregard of the feelings and tastes of others. Bohemianism too often means piggish sloth or ...
— The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne • William J. Locke
... own sake, can be ascribed only to men and monkeys; monkeys, at least, are the only animals in whom repletion and old age cannot dampen that passion. After a full meal an elephant will stand for hours in a sort of piggish torpor; a gorged bird seeks the tree-shade; an overfed dog and nearly every old dog becomes a picture of laziness. Monkeys rest only during sleep. Old age does not affect their nimbleness; they ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 • Various
... and bottles of strong waters, in the midst of which two tallow dips illuminated the fog; and beyond the table to the figure of a man stooping over a couple of half-packed valises; an enormously stout man swathed in greatcoats—a red-faced, clean-shaven man, with small piggish eyes which twinkled at me wickedly as I picked myself up, and he, too, stood erect ...
— Merry-Garden and Other Stories • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch |
