"Know nothing" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "take care your tongue do not get you into trouble. Speak lower, an you will talk about things you know nothing about. You love kings and lords better than some folk," ...
— The Knight of the Golden Melice - A Historical Romance • John Turvill Adams
... friendship. They consort with certain companions and perhaps very earnestly admire them, because they possess intellectual gifts, but of friendship, such as we two, Morris and I (for that was his real name) understood it, they know nothing.' ...
— Clara Hopgood • Mark Rutherford
... and flown, there were thirteen at the table when little Ben first sat in the high chair. But the Franklins were not superstitious, and if little Ben ever prayed that another would be born, just for luck, we know nothing of it. His mother loved him very much and indulged him in many ways, for he was always her baby boy, but the father thought that because he was good-natured he was also lazy ...
— Little Journeys To the Homes of the Great, Volume 3 (of 14) • Elbert Hubbard
... adequate idea on my absolute and utter homeliness. The dates in the old family Bible show that I am in the decline of life, but I cannot recall a period in my existence when I felt really young. My very infancy, those brief months when babes prattle joyously and know nothing of care, was darkened by a shadowy presentiment of what I was to endure through life, and my youth was rendered dismal by continued repetitions of a fact painfully evident "on the face of it," that the boy was growing homelier and homelier every day. Memory, that ...
— The Complete Works of Artemus Ward, Part 1 • Charles Farrar Browne
... his head: "They'd better know nothing about the letter," he answered at last. "It was ...
— On the Edge of the Arctic - An Aeroplane in Snowland • Harry Lincoln Sayler
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