"Overwise" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "'T ain't overwise, Janet," mused Davy through the tobacco smoke, "to get t' thinkin' what ye are an' what ye ain't. Let other folks do ...
— Janet of the Dunes • Harriet T. Comstock
... Which the blue heavens melt to; I, sad, overwise, Loathe the sweet looks dealt to All things—men ...
— The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume IV • Elizabeth Barrett Browning
... go a-nigh the place. No!" observed the young man, with considerable feeling; "he an't overwise, an't Perkins, but he an't such a fool ...
— The Lock and Key Library • Julian Hawthorne, Ed.
... encountered Mephistopheles, the embodiment of that force which, ever willing evil, ever achieves good in its own despite. This Faust has been led by Mephistopheles to the arms of Margaret, child of the simple-hearted people, she whom Faust, the overwise, had lost. And thanks to her—for she gave herself to him—this Faust is saved, redeemed by the people that believes with a simple faith. But there was a second part, for that Faust was the anecdotical Faust ...
— Tragic Sense Of Life • Miguel de Unamuno
... schoolmaster heads in the form of rationalism, could from the latter spread itself immediately over the whole land. The result was that a somewhat superstitious generation was followed by an excessively overwise one; for it is astonishing how the grandchild feels when he knows that a nocturnal fiery meteor is composed merely of inflammable gases, while his grandfather sees in it the devil trying to enter some chimney or other with his shining ...
— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. IX - Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig • Various
... dangerous—as vital, as self-centred, as deadly. Sitting up in bed, openly careless of charms hardly concealed by nightwear of sheer silk lace and crepe de Chine, she looked P. Sybarite up and down with wide eyes overwise in the ways of life, shrewdly judicious of mankind; handled her pistol with experienced confidence; spoke, in a voice of surpassing sweetness, with decision and considerable overt contempt for the phraseology of convention—swearing without the least affectation, ...
— The Day of Days - An Extravaganza • Louis Joseph Vance
... on the air, And wheel me up my Indian chair, And spread some book not overwise Flat out before my ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 4, No. 23, September, 1859 • Various
... and were the only individuals here who had any knowledge of letters, or of distant parts of the world. These are, indeed, the main springs of that sympathy, without which there is no love among men. It is being overwise, to treat with contempt what mankind hold in respect: and philosophy teaches us not to extinguish our feelings, but to correct and refine them. My visits to the hermitage were frequently renewed at first, because they afforded me the relief of variety, whilst ...
— A Voyage to the Moon • George Tucker
... she-sparrow of the house-top by a young beauty, who adds to her other attractions a vague, uninstructed yearning for culture and entirely substantial possessions in the three-per-cents. But the moral is the same—the folly of being overwise, the wisdom of acting upon the best promptings of the heart. In Too Late Browning attempts to render a mood of passionate despair;—love and the hopes of love are defeated by a woman's sentence of ...
— Robert Browning • Edward Dowden
... the King of this folk is Giuki, and he sits in the Niblung hall When the song of men goes roofward and the shields shine out from the wall; And his queen in the high-seat sitteth, the woman overwise, Grimhild the kin of the God-folk, the wife of the glittering eyes: And his sons on each hand are sitting; there is Gunnar the great and fair, With the lovely face of a king 'twixt the night of his wavy hair: And there is the wise-heart ...
— The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs • William Morris
... as he led us home, one on either side of him, I wearing uncle's pocket-handkerchief on my head, knotted into something like a turban, Ben trotting on before—"Ah, children, little feet shouldn't wander far from home; little heads shouldn't think themselves overwise; and little things like pretty birds shouldn't make small people forget their uncle's command to be home before sundown. Now, if you will only just get home by moondown, 'twill ...
— Little Folks - A Magazine for the Young (Date of issue unknown) • Various
... property of which was, that if it came in contact with any common metal, it changed it, on that instant, into gold. Now, this story had come to the ears of Bartlemy Bowbell, and by one of those odd cranks that not overwise people sometimes take in their heads, he was perfectly persuaded that, sooner or later, he was fated ...
— Funny Big Socks - Being the Fifth Book of the Series • Sarah L. Barrow
... the Faith—the Faith our fathers sealed us; Whoring not with visions—overwise and overstale. Except ye pay the Lord Single heart and single sword, Of your children in their bondage shall he ...
— The Message • Alec John Dawson |
