"Fritter away" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... seen, Harriet must not fritter away her time writing plays; she must study Butler's Analogy. She must also read Baxter's Saints Rest, than which, says Mrs. Stowe, "no book ever affected me more powerfully. As I walked the pavements I wished that they might sink beneath me if only I might find myself in heaven." ...
— Daughters of the Puritans - A Group of Brief Biographies • Seth Curtis Beach
... chafed with impatience during this tirade, in which he justly suspected an attempt to fritter away a serious discussion. ...
— Love Me Little, Love Me Long • Charles Reade
... you eagerly seize the first opportunity to fritter away your time over old clothes. You precipitate yourself unnecessarily against a disagreeable thing. For you are not going to put your stockings on. Perhaps you will not need your buttons for a week, and in a week you may have passed ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, Issue 67, May, 1863 • Various
... themselves with a full knowledge of these important studies, are perhaps in some measure excused for their shortcomings. Instead of the inculcation of these useful and more vital lessons of life, they are required to fritter away time and health over a French grammar, or other equally foolish study, which cannot, in a vast majority of cases, be of the least service to them. They had much better be at home making mud-pies (which, by the way, are about the only ...
— Minnesota; Its Character and Climate • Ledyard Bill
... I want to cast off the strange passionate love for the place which holds me here, to go out into the world and hold my place amongst my fellows. Cicely, surely where men do great works, where men live and die, that is the proper place for man? I have no right to fritter away a life in the sensuous delight of moving amongst beautiful places. I want to come into touch with my kind, to feel the pulse of humanity, to drink the whole cup of life with its joys and sorrows. Contemplation should be the end of life—its ...
— The Survivor • E.Phillips Oppenheim
... said the lady: "they're one of the oldest and best families. Vera Gardine is quite a belle in society, and Clement is a fine young man. He does not fritter away his time, as so many young men do, but works away like a good fellow at his plantation up on ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 • Various
... to teach me to breathe deeper, dear Colonel Sahib," she quickly, and rather embarrassingly, asked. "Not my father. He'll have innumerable big things to do and to do them without waste of energy he must be saved at every point. He must not fritter away strength in coaching me in my odds and ends of duties, still less in covering up ...
— Deadham Hard • Lucas Malet |
