"Thick-skulled" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... well enough, Sir Robert!" said Glossin, "I suppose he would bring forward this thick-skulled fellow to give his oath of credulity, Sir Robert, ha, ...
— Guy Mannering • Sir Walter Scott
... train, Made such a low conge, forgetting his place, I was never so honoured before in my days: But then off went my scalp-case, and down went my fist, Till the pavement, too hard, by my knuckles was kissed; By which, though thick-skulled, he must understand this, That I was a most humble servant of his; Which also so wonderful kindly he took, (As I well perceived both b' his gesture and look,) That to have me dogg'd home he straightway appointed, Resolving, ...
— Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete • George Gilfillan
... in many things. I perceive his being willing to do all the honour in the world to Monk, and to let him have all the honour of doing the business, though he will many times express his thoughts of him to be but a thick-skulled fool. So that I do believe there is some agreement more than ordinary between the King and my Lord to let Monk carry on the business, for it is he that can do the business, or at least that can hinder it, if he be not flattered and observed. This, my Lord will hint ...
— The Diary of Samuel Pepys • Samuel Pepys
... exclaimed. "Thank the Lord you've come! This thick-skulled boob wouldn't give me time for a word, and every minute is precious! Come where I can ...
— The Crevice • William John Burns and Isabel Ostrander
... This gave me the first light on the real rank of the Knight of the Leopard; and my suspicions were confirmed by De Vaux, who, on his return from Ascalon, brought back with him the Earl of Huntingdon's sole attendant, a thick-skulled slave, who had gone thirty miles to unfold to De Vaux a secret he should have ...
— The Talisman • Sir Walter Scott
... get out of the White House before the scrap began. He was of course on terms of intimacy with all the secession leaders, especially Mr. Slidell, of Louisiana, like himself a Northerner by birth, and Mr. Mason, a thick-skulled, ruffle-shirted Virginian. It was not in him or in Mr. Pierce, with their antecedents and associations, to be uncompromising Federalists. There was no clear law to go on. Moderate men were in a muck of doubt ...
— Marse Henry, Complete - An Autobiography • Henry Watterson
... is," interrupted Nels; "but she's got a damn sight more spunk than you think she has, Gene Stewart. I'm no thick-skulled cow. I'd hate somethin' powerful to hev Miss Hammond see any rough work, let alone me an' Monty startin' somethin'. An' me an' Monty'll stick to you, Gene, as long as seems reasonable. Mind, ole feller, beggin' your pardon, you're shore stuck on Miss Hammond, ...
— The Light of Western Stars • Zane Grey
... big, tough, work-hardened clods, whose minds and brains simply didn't have the sensitivity to be hurt by that sort of treatment. Oh, they screamed as loud as anyone when they were in the burner, but it really didn't have much effect on them. They were just too thick-skulled to have it make much difference to them one way or ...
— But, I Don't Think • Gordon Randall Garrett
... indignant. "You act like I told you it was going to rain! Why don't you say something? Didn't you hear what I said, you fools!" he asked pugnaciously. "Are you in the habit of having a thing like that told you? Why don't you show some interest, you dod-blasted, thick-skulled wooden-heads?" ...
— Bar-20 Days • Clarence E. Mulford
... They sent word that the thick-skulled Poles and the rest had made an awful mess of the ballots. Tom"—to one of ...
— The Henchman • Mark Lee Luther |
