"Pish" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Pish, this is tedious, I cannot hold, I must present my self, And yet the sight of my Spaconia Touches me, as a sudden thunder-clap Does one that is about ...
— A King, and No King • Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
... age,' remarked the Duke peevishly, 'when my birthdays have ceased to be a cause for congratulation. This review is an anachronism. In my father's time I rode at the head of the Guard, and led a charge on the day I was eighteen. Pish! I have grown wiser, and know how to enjoy life after a more rational fashion. To return to our other ...
— A Modern Mercenary • Kate Prichard and Hesketh Vernon Hesketh-Prichard
... with lean-to roofs on one side, and at each side of the square was a sentry looking down upon us. It was very much like the dens which they now build for bears, only so much larger. O'Brien answered me with a "Pish! Peter, it's the very security of the place which will enable us to get out of it. But don't talk, as there are always ...
— Peter Simple and The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2 • Frederick Marryat
... 'Pish, Violet,' said her husband, 'how can you expect to feel like poets and lovers? And halloo! he is coming it strong! "Poems by A."; "The White Hind and other Poems"; "Gwyneth: a tale in verse"; "Farewell to Pausilippo", by the Earl of St. Erme. Well done, Percy! Are you collecting ...
— Heartsease - or Brother's Wife • Charlotte M. Yonge
... "Pish!" uttered a fair young girl who had hitherto been silent; "it would be waste of time to look at their faces after the ...
— The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 • Various
... at the same time smiled upon me. The gipsy finding he was not displeased in his heart, told him, after a farther inquiry into his hand, that his true-love was constant, and that she should dream of him to-night: My old friend cried pish, and bid her go on. The gipsy told him that he was a bachelor, but would not be so long; and that he was dearer to somebody than he thought: The Knight still repeated she was an idle baggage, and bid her go on. Ah, master, says the gipsy, that roguish leer of ...
— The Coverley Papers • Various
... had—with a ring of disdain and defiance; glad that she was not a little, tender, child-like woman, to be crushed by the first pinch of trouble. For if I succeeded in my task, if I contrived to—but, pish! Women, I told myself, were all alike. She would find ...
— Under the Red Robe • Stanley Weyman
... "Pish! You think so, and so, doubtless, does he. But none the less it is sheer nonsense. Can you tell ...
— The Doctor - A Tale Of The Rockies • Ralph Connor |
