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"Do-nothing" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Robin, I say, is growing to be an industrious man again, and he can get a living well. If he had stopped a half-dazed-do-nothing, he might have wanted that, or some other help; but it isn't so. His trouble's at rest, and his old energies are coming back to him. It seems to have left my mind at leisure, sir; and I can go away, praying for the souls of my poor ...
— Verner's Pride • Mrs. Henry Wood
... fox-hunter who had met with his deserts; and the brilliant accounts which the all smoothing colonel gave at dinner of Lancelot's physical well doing and agreeable conversation only made her set him down the sooner as a twin clever-do-nothing to the despised Bracebridge, whom she hated for keeping her father in ...
— Yeast: A Problem • Charles Kingsley
... all wrong, and that they ought to be doing something. Now whenever things are so that a lot of people feel they ought to be doing something, the weak, and those who go weak with a lot of complicated thinking, always make for a sort of do-nothing religion, very pious and superior, and submit to persecution and the will of the Lord. Very likely you've seen the same thing. It's energy in a gale of funk, and turned clean inside out. These cages will ...
— The War of the Worlds • H. G. Wells |
Words linked to "Do-nothing" : lie-abed, drone, irresponsible, bum, nonworker, trailer, good-for-naught, no-account, lazybones, loafer, slug, trifler, layabout, sunbather, dillydallier, clock watcher, lounger, poke, daydreamer, dallier, mope, loon, ne'er-do-well, woolgatherer, goof-off, whittler, dawdler, lagger, goldbrick, shirker, slacker, laggard, dilly-dallier, sluggard, couch potato, slugabed, good-for-nothing, spiv |
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