Priggish Quotes
- The fabliau, then, is a short story that is a tall story. It combines a burly blurting of dirty words with a reveling in humiliations… — Christopher Ricks
- The essence of taste is suitability. Divest the word of its prim and priggish implications, and see how it expresses the mysterious demand of the… — Edith Wharton
- Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not… — George Sand
- It seems priggish or pollyannaish to deny that my intention in writing the work was to titillate the nastier propensities of my readers. My own… — Anthony Burgess
- I was very priggish as a child. I saved up for a book on medieval English nunneries, for which I was despised by my friends. — Claire Tomalin
- Taste is one of the five senses, and the man who tells us with priggish pride that he does not care what he eats is… — Edward Frederic Benson