"Tripe" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... that Dickens' humour will not bear caricaturing. The defect of his own art as a writer is that it verges itself too often on caricature. Exaggeration is its bane. When, for instance, he makes the rich alderman in "The Chimes" eat up poor Trotty Veck's little last tit-bit of tripe, we are clearly in the region of broad farce. When Mr. Pancks, in "Little Dorrit," so far abandons the ordinary ways of mature rent collectors as to ask a respectable old accountant to "give him a back," in ...
— Life of Charles Dickens • Frank Marzials
... love of tripe! Hold me, I'm going to faint, Gertie!" cried Bob. "Rose petals from your loved ones! ...
— Andy at Yale - The Great Quadrangle Mystery • Roy Eliot Stokes
... the way things are going on—that's a mouse of a very different colour, as the phrase goes. A terrier person who claims to own the PRIME MINISTER and has been very busy demanding what he calls our invaluable suffrages buttonholed me the other day outside the tripe shop and commenced to tell me all the wonderful things that we dogs would get if we only elected a strong Coalition Government—better biscuits, larger kennels, equal rabbits for all and I don't know what else. But when I asked him plainly, "Are you in ...
— Punch, Volume 156, January 22, 1919. • Various
... the President [of the Policemen's Union], stated that the time for action will arrive after the tripe alliance at Southport ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, June 18, 1919 • Various
... living for even business men is going down so fast, Mawruss, that next year when such a man complains that the tripe is tough, she is going to say, 'What do you expect for twenty dollars a week housekeeping money—round steak?'" Abe said, "and if them packers goes on trying to control the entire bill of fare from soup to cereals, Mawruss, it would only be a matter of a few years when such a husband ...
— Potash and Perlmutter Settle Things • Montague Glass
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