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More "Stuff and nonsense" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... from Servant.] What stuff and nonsense all this about men is! The thing to do is to keep men in their ...
— A Woman of No Importance • Oscar Wilde
... said Miss Faithful, timidly, "they have told such queer stories about it." "Stuff and nonsense!" said Miss Sophonisba. "You ...
— Not Pretty, But Precious • John Hay, et al.
... of the book, and, having read them, the worst enemy of lovers' garlands will not accuse Mr. Patmore of "putting stuff and nonsense into people's heads" ...
— The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 • Various
... promised solemnly to honour and obey him, and was she turning restive over such a trifle as this? The loving smile departed from his face, and was succeeded by a scowl which that old Turk, his father, might have envied. "Stuff and nonsense, my dearest Christina," he exclaimed mildly, and stamped his foot upon the floor of the carriage. "It is a wife's duty to order her husband's dinner; you are my wife, and I shall expect you to order mine." For Theobald was nothing if ...
— The Way of All Flesh • Samuel Butler
... he promised, "and don't you worry about your grandfather's having been murdered by any man. I've seen the body. Stuff and nonsense! Detective's an ass. Waiting for coroner, although I know he's ...
— The Abandoned Room • Wadsworth Camp
... the President and administration; we believed them all to be under the pay and influence of Bonaparte, who we knew was the first Lieutenant of Satan. We believed all that was said about "Free trade and sailors' rights," was all stuff and nonsense, brought forward by the Republicans, whom we called Democrats and Jacobins, to gull the people out of their liberty and property, in order to surrender both to the Tyrant of France. We believed entirely that the war was "unnecessary" and "wicked," and declared with no other design ...
— A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed. • Benjamin Waterhouse
... "All stuff and nonsense; I am certain he would neither refuse one of these cigars, nor a tumbler of this excellent punch. Does he ...
— Flora Lyndsay - or, Passages in an Eventful Life • Susan Moodie
... said, Fraeulein? How do I remember! Stuff and nonsense mostly! You were crazy with fever, and your eyes used to shine so, it made me afraid. Then the Kapellmeister would come and put you to sleep with his eyes.—Let go of my hands, Fraeulein, you are crushing the wool! Is it the fever ...
— The Black Cross • Olive M. Briggs
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