"Turncoat" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... satire-royal: and if any thing were yet wanting to convince us that Master Pindar is no turncoat, here ...
— The Humourous Poetry of the English Language • James Parton
... "Ah! you turncoat scoundrel!" he laughed in a sort of fond dejection, "you've come North to be a lover too, have you? You were songless enough ...
— John March, Southerner • George W. Cable
... a turncoat. But it is certain I am loved of all ladies, only you excepted; and I would I could find in my heart that I had not a hard ...
— Much Ado About Nothing • William Shakespeare [Craig, Oxford edition]
... me a moment, Miss Galbraith. If Mr. Duff will oblige me by answering my question, I trust I shall satisfy you I am no turncoat." ...
— Sir Gibbie • George MacDonald
... solicitous. [723]Fabius esteems no better of most of them, either in speech, action, gesture, than as men beside themselves, insanos declamatores; so doth Gregory, Non mihi sapit qui sermone, sed qui factis sapit. Make the best of him, a good orator is a turncoat, an evil man, bonus orator pessimus vir, his tongue is set to sale, he is a mere voice, as [724]he said of a nightingale, dat sine mente sonum, an hyperbolical liar, a flatterer, a parasite, and as [725] Ammianus Marcellinus will, a corrupting ...
— The Anatomy of Melancholy • Democritus Junior
... exegetical collection, and may possibly have been used as a circulating one. Nearly all the number were religious, theological, or historical books; fourteen were in rhyme. Among the poems were "A Turncoat of the Times," Spenser's "Prosopopeia," "The Scyrge of Drunkenness," a "Description of a Good Wife," the ballad of "The Maunding Soldier," and Wither's works. One might have been a tragedy, "Messalina," but there ...
— Customs and Fashions in Old New England • Alice Morse Earle
... heart with the notorious Vicar of Bray, who kept his pulpit under the whole or some part of the successive reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary, and Elizabeth, changing his theology with each change of rule. When taunted as a turncoat, he replied, "Not so, for I have always been true to my principles, which are to live and die ...
— The Leading Facts of English History • D.H. Montgomery
... got your number, all right, kiddo; they know you're out after bigger game. You're a little turncoat, that's what ...
— Every Soul Hath Its Song • Fannie Hurst
... indicated. During the period of its manuscript circulation and for a few years after its publication The Prince was treated with favour or at worst with indifference, and the first mutterings were merely personal to the author. He was a scurvy knave and turncoat with neither bowels nor conscience, almost negligible. But still men read him, and a change in conditions brought a change in front. He had in The Prince, above all in the Discorsi, accused the Church of having ruined Italy and debauched the world. In view of the writer's growing popularity, ...
— Machiavelli, Volume I - The Art of War; and The Prince • Niccolo Machiavelli
... . . Yes. I'm here yet. You didn't think I'd run from such a little subsidized, turncoat rag of a newspaper, did you? . . . Have me inside of forty-eight hours? Say, will you quit being funny? Now, you let grown men alone and attend to your business of hunting up divorce cases and ...
— The Voice of the City • O. Henry
... glad to hear your explanation, Mr. Mate," said Wallace, cordially, as soon as Harry had done, "and there's my hand, in proof that I approve of your course. I own to a radical dislike of a turncoat, or a traitor to his craft, Brother Hollins"—looking at the elder of his two companions, one of whom was the midshipman who had originally accompanied him on board the Swash—"and am glad to find that our friend ...
— Jack Tier or The Florida Reef • James Fenimore Cooper
... my fate to hear that the old man had made me the heir of his savings. Such was his announcement, in a very excited voice, but incidentally upon a solemn adjuration to the squire to beware of his temper—govern his temper and not be a turncoat. ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... himself at the foot of the throne, imploring pardon for his past offences, and offering to condone his folly by any services which should be required of him. Henry, accepting his penitence, informed him that the only reparation he could now make was by disclosing the names of his abettors; and the turncoat at once denounced Stanley, then present, as, his chief colleague. The chamberlain indignantly repudiated the accusation; and Henry, with well-feigned disbelief, begged Clifford to be careful in making his charges, for it was absolutely incredible "that a man, to whom he was ...
— Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton • Anonymous
... to say, it is worth while to write, only to tell you two bon-mots of Quin, to that turncoat hypocrite infidel, Bishop Warburton. That saucy priest was haranguing at Bath in behalf of prerogative: Quin said, "Pray, my lord, spare me, you are not acquainted with my principles, I am a republican; and perhaps I even think that the execution of Charles ...
— The Letters of Horace Walpole Volume 3 • Horace Walpole
... 'is thus a public turncoat. Is that the sort of man we want? He has been given the lie, and has swallowed the insult. Is that the sort of man we want? I answer No! With all the force of my conviction, ...
— Tales and Fantasies • Robert Louis Stevenson
... seemed to be steering that way till that little turncoat, Mellor, came on the scene with a ...
— The Hero of Garside School • J. Harwood Panting
... a friend of Sir Turncoat 'twas lately averr'd, The electors would find him as good as his word! "As good as his word," did you say, "gracious me! What a terrible ...
— The Jest Book - The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings • Mark Lemon
... laedis, laudas Caesarem; quem maxume odisti, ei maxume obsequeris. Aliud stans, aliud sedens, de republica sentis; his maledicis, illos odisti; levissume transfuga, neque in hac, neque illa parte fidem habes." Hence Dio Cassius declared that Cicero had been called a turncoat. [Greek: ...
— Life of Cicero - Volume One • Anthony Trollope |
