"Touchiness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... game we were going to play was not worth the candle. I would not have fought if I could have convinced myself that I was in the wrong, but after turning the matter well-over, and looking at it from every point of view, I could not help seeing that the fault lay in the count's excessive touchiness, and I resolved to give him satisfaction. At all hazards I would not ...
— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
... reticence he had kept this opinion to himself, but he was already deeply interested in his patient. So much was at stake, and their fortunes were at so low an ebb, that Marcus might be pardoned for his unusual touchiness. Yet when he left the room without further remark, Olivia's heart ...
— Doctor Luttrell's First Patient • Rosa Nouchette Carey |
