"Chump" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... 'ave ur; and wot the devil I be to do agin that there Snooks, as 'll lie through a brick wall, I beant able to say. I be pooty nigh off my chump wot wi' one ...
— The Humourous Story of Farmer Bumpkin's Lawsuit • Richard Harris
... forward and grabbed the telegrams from the manager's hand. "Holy mackerel! Give 'em here!" he shouted. Two eager, beautiful young women were hanging to his elbows as he ruthlessly broke one of the seals. "The chump! It's from Rox! They're all from Rox—and they are ...
— The Husbands of Edith • George Barr McCutcheon
... and chump, Maister Ken!" cried Scoodrach; and then he was silent, and sat staring wildly, for he realised that he could not help his young master—that there ...
— Three Boys - or the Chiefs of the Clan Mackhai • George Manville Fenn
... disturbing! I don't know anything about the fellow. Never heard of him in my life. She says he wanted a quiet wedding because he thought a fellow looked such a chump getting married! And I must love him, because he's all set to love ...
— Indiscretions of Archie • P. G. Wodehouse
... have been sent by God in answer to my prayer. But I have been nearly off my chump for three days with worry; and it suddenly struck me: 'What if it's the Devil ...
— Victory • Joseph Conrad
... "Look out, you chump!" yelled Torry. "Want to yank the stick out of her? If you haven't a care Captain Bridger will get the price of a ...
— Navy Boys Behind the Big Guns - Sinking the German U-Boats • Halsey Davidson
... if a chump may have an opinion, I should put it at this. You make, I suppose, ten pounds a night off your own ...
— Misalliance • George Bernard Shaw
... course! We all think it—sacred names of home and mother and all the rest of it; but a man running for office these days is a chump to say so, isn't he? Of course he is! What chance does it leave him? Answer ...
— The Sturdy Oak - A Composite Novel of American Politics by Fourteen American Authors • Samuel Merwin, et al.
... quicker than that. I'll simply have to go to Alice and Uncle William Grey and get a set-back, and—say, John! I'm a polish, for fair! Alice is making all her preparations, and has her mind fastened to the date, and all that sort of thing, and like a chump I go up ...
— You Can Search Me • Hugh McHugh
... "Little chump," he said, his eyes sparkling, "what makes you look at it? If you don't like it, go take yourself ...
— Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories • Edited by Julian Hawthorne
... divided into two portions—the chump end and the kidney end; the latter of which, the most delicate part, must be separated in bones which have been jointed before cooking. Part of the kidney, and of the rich fat which surrounds it, must be ...
— Routledge's Manual of Etiquette • George Routledge
... paced the promenade, watching the stir and bustle of the crowd, he definitely condemned his absent relative as a narrow-minded chump. ...
— The Man Upstairs and Other Stories • P. G. Wodehouse
... paleness was on the inside of me. Think I was going to flinch before a chump like Moriway, even if I had ...
— In the Bishop's Carriage • Miriam Michelson
... are dangerous when in the hands of "chumps," dangerous to themselves and to any one else who is near them. For instance, only a chump will use an axe when its head is loose and is in danger of flying off the handle; only a chump will use his best axe to cut roots or sticks lying flat on the ground where he is liable to strike stones ...
— Shelters, Shacks and Shanties • D.C. Beard
... brother, breaking a painful silence, "why can't you leave things that you don't understand to me? Omar Khayyam ain't a wine, you chump; it's a cheese." ...
— Best Short Stories • Various
... at his pipe—and then: "They were only together three weeks," he said. "And during that time she managed to cram more knowledge of everything into the boy's head than you and I have got in a lifetime. Give you my word, Grig, when he was off his chump in the fever, he raved like a poet, and an orator, and he was only an ordinary sportsman when he left home in the spring! Cleopatra, he called her one day, and I fancy that was the keynote—she must have ...
— Three Weeks • Elinor Glyn
... the words his leg was itching to kick himself for being such a chump, but the sudden expression of pleasure on Adeline's face soothed him; and he went home that night with the feeling that he had taken on something rather attractive. It was only in the cold, grey light of the morning that ...
— The Clicking of Cuthbert • P. G. Wodehouse
... down the letter and cursed himself heartily for a fool, a chump and a blackguard. With a girl like that, and standing all she had from him, to lose her over Mrs. Hardesty! Who was Mrs. Hardesty? And why had she gone to Gunsight and fetched him back to New York? Was it because he was ...
— Rimrock Jones • Dane Coolidge
... would do it alone if you were not here, and I had brains enough, Kirk. The thing must end. If it goes on much longer and I keep seeing those infernal insinuations in the papers, I'll go completely off my chump." ...
— Ashton-Kirk, Investigator • John T. McIntyre
... chump," Cub grinned with a shrug of self-commiseration; "but say, let's draw those geometrical lines on our chart and see if we get the same result those radio compass ...
— The Radio Boys in the Thousand Islands • J. W. Duffield
... fainted when she saw me. Such a picnic you never saw. They kept it up all night. I thought the old cove was gone off his chump. The old woman wouldn't let go my hand for three mortal hours. Have you ...
— While the Billy Boils • Henry Lawson
... Old Allister, your creat—her own crandfather, was ta pest horseman ta worlt efer saw, and he'll nefer pe hafing ta trews to his own lecks nor ta saddle to his horse's pack. He'll chust make his men pe strap on an old plaid, and he'll be kive a chump, and away they wass, horse and man, one peast, aal ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Vol. XV., No. 85. January, 1875. • Various
... make his dough!" he exclaimed, when he could speak. "Some chump in the supply department has handed him out a bag of foot powder when he asked ...
— Army Boys in the French Trenches • Homer Randall
... chump," he howled, exasperatedly. "You pin- headed old amphibian. If your sole and utter ambition is to get pneumonia and die, I don't know any way in which you can better achieve your purpose. Sit down in the corner there and drink ...
— A Fool There Was • Porter Emerson Browne
... on telling him, sir," said the man sharply; "but he will keep at it. Here's poor Captain Roby regularly off his chump, and bursting out every now and then calling everybody a coward, and, as if that ain't bad enough, Corporal May goes on encouraging him ...
— The Kopje Garrison - A Story of the Boer War • George Manville Fenn
... that there is no difference between a good yellow man and a good white man is like saying that a vegetarian chop of minced peas is like a chop of the chump variety.—New Witness. ...
— The Healthy Life, Vol. V, Nos. 24-28 - The Independent Health Magazine • Various
... them to enormous proportions. He wished profoundly that he could get rid of his habit of yelping with nervous laughter whenever he encountered the girl of his dreams. It was calculated to give her a wrong impression of a chap—make her think him a fearful chump and ...
— A Damsel in Distress • Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
... making pretty good use of myself," Andy explained, and wished he knew who gave him that surreptitious kick on the ankle. Did the chump want an introduction? ...
— The Flying U's Last Stand • B. M. Bower
... reproached. "Why didn't you tell me? The nights are cold in these northern latitudes even in summer, and I'm a proper chump to have allowed you to sit still so long." He clucked his tongue in self-abasement. "You're ...
— Every Man for Himself • Hopkins Moorhouse
... must," interrupted the poet. "They must nestle up. That's right! What kind of a chump am I not to have thought of that before? Yes, boys, she's got an album, a beaut', too: crimson plush an' nickel. And, of course, the pictures of her folks is inside. By gum! I'll give the homeliest of 'em sech a ...
— Bunch Grass - A Chronicle of Life on a Cattle Ranch • Horace Annesley Vachell
... so English! I can't think how she manages. She had not been an hour on British soil before she asked a servant to fetch in some coals and mend the fire; she followed this Anglicism by a request for a grilled chop, 'a grilled, chump chop, waiter, please,' and so on from triumph to triumph. She now discourses of methylated spirits as if she had never in her life heard of alcohol, and all the English equivalents for Americanisms ...
— Penelope's English Experiences • Kate Douglas Wiggin
... isn't she on deck now just as Red comes?" Macauley began to fume. "She's behaved nobly all the evening so far—she might have a rational being how for a partner as her reward. But I presume she's sitting out somewhere with that chump of a Wardlaw—he follows her like a shadow and she's too ...
— Red Pepper Burns • Grace S. Richmond
... left Rodeo airly this mornin' thar was some good reason fer it. I reckon it's a killin'. But he's a chump ter stop off here. If anything has been pulled off at Rodeo, ther whole country will be out after him, fer Fancy, so called fer his passion fer good clothes an' high-colored poker chips, they don't like none too well, he's too almighty quick an' slick with his six-shooter, ...
— Ted Strong in Montana - With Lariat and Spur • Edward C. Taylor
... regular fellow like young Emerson! He's a good boy—young Emerson. I knew his folks. He'll make a name for himself one of these days. He's got get-up in him. And I have been waiting to shoot him because he has taken Aline away from that goggle-eyed chump up in bed there! ...
— Something New • Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
... one o' them skinny shanked saps, with a chest 'ollered out, and a 'ump, Wot do records on roads for the 'onour, and faint or go slap off their chump. You don't ketch me straining my 'eart till it cracks for a big silver mug. No; 'ARRY takes heverythink heasy, and likes to feel cosy ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, May 7, 1892 • Various
... "Chump!" he cried. "Of course he didn't. Oh, I'm a great business man, I am, thinking he'd buy those shares in his own name or in Alice's. It's back to the dear old farm ...
— The Lever - A Novel • William Dana Orcutt
... exclaimed Jack Vance, addressing the new boy by the friendly abbreviation, which seemed by mutual consent to have been bestowed upon him in recognition of his daring exploit—"I say, Diggy, you're in my bedroom: there's you, and me, and Mugford. Mug's an awful chump, but he's a good-natured old duffer, and you and I'll do ...
— The Triple Alliance • Harold Avery |
