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"Footling" Quotes from Famous Books

... emotionalism—of your early life? Well, it was that sort of shuddering that came over Florence at the thought that she had surrendered to such a low fellow. I don't know that she need have shuddered. It was her footling old uncle's work; he ought never to have taken those two round the world together and shut himself up in his cabin for the greater part of the time. Anyhow, I am convinced that the sight of Mr Bagshawe and ...

— The Good Soldier • Ford Madox Ford

... old name, which does as well. I do not hesitate to say that all our best lecturers have two or three old lectures at the back of every single point in their best new speeches; and this means that they have spent a certain number of years plodding away at footling little meetings and dull discussions, doggedly placing these before all private engagements, however tempting. A man's Socialistic acquisitiveness must be keen enough to make him actually prefer spending two or three nights a week in speaking and debating, or in picking up social ...

— The History of the Fabian Society • Edward R. Pease

... "you are mistaken; there is nothing to be said for the 'antis.' Their arguments are positively . . . footling." ...

— The Ffolliots of Redmarley • L. Allen Harker

... Buttermish interrupted, "you are mistaken; there is nothing to be said for the 'antis.' Their arguments are positively . . . footling." ...

— The Ffolliots of Redmarley • L. Allen Harker