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More "Hoity-toity" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... 'Hoity-toity!' exclaimed Mrs Pipchin, shaking out her black bombazeen skirts, and plucking up all the ogress within her. 'If she don't like it, Mr Dombey, she must be taught to lump it.' The good lady apologised immediately afterwards for using so common a figure of speech, but said (and truly) ...
— Dombey and Son • Charles Dickens
... they might establish a system of jurisprudence for the world under which it would be lawful to rob and murder by the rule of the strong right hand, but criminal to reduce millions to wretchedness by subtle and cunning arts; and, hoity-toity, the prisons would change their tenants, and the brutal plunderers of the few would give place to the cultured spoilers of ...
— Caesar's Column • Ignatius Donnelly
... GORG. (Alone). Hoity-toity! Methinks they go away dissatisfied. What can be the meaning of this? I must find it out. ...
— The Pretentious Young Ladies • Moliere
... "Why, hoity-toity!" said the old gentleman "what's all this? what's the matter? don't you like it? I thought I was doing the very thing that would please ...
— The Wide, Wide World • Elizabeth Wetherell
... seemed suddenly to have disappeared, so he asked for the chance to wash and shave; and half an hour later he came down all slicked up and spruce, with a very visible intention of paying court to the lady of the house. Irish, you see,—white hairs no obstacle. I could not help laughing. "Hoity-toity," I said to myself, "I am getting all kinds of impressions of ...
— A Hilltop on the Marne • Mildred Aldrich
... A few hoity-toity persons of course felt outraged, and would have ordered their carriages had there been any one to order them from. The honest Raffles was, to tell the truth, secretly busy, on a signal from Tom, preparing for the banquet in the dining-room, ...
— Roger Ingleton, Minor • Talbot Baines Reed
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