"Jackanapes" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... see how in gracious you know so much about it," she remarked, querulously. "'Pon my word, you acted with that young jackanapes an' that fat old lady downstairs jest's ...
— The Panchronicon • Harold Steele Mackaye
... my brother Tom brought me my jackanapes coat with silver buttons. It rained this morning, which, makes us fear that the glory of this day will be lost; the King and Parliament being to be entertained by the City to-day with great pomp. Mr. Hater was with me to-day, and I agreed with him to ...
— The Diary of Samuel Pepys • Samuel Pepys
... preparation for the battle of life. "I believe Louis XI.," writes Comines, "would not have saved himself, if he had not been very differently brought up from such other lords as I have seen educated in this country; for these were taught nothing but to play the jackanapes with finery and fine words." (7) I am afraid Charles took such lessons to heart, and conceived of life as a season principally for junketing and war. His view of the whole duty of man, so empty, ...
— Familiar Studies of Men & Books • Robert Louis Stevenson
... who you saw," said Malcolm at white heat. "I'll tell you! You met this young whippersnapper Jackanapes—what's ...
— Martie the Unconquered • Kathleen Norris
... was the saying of Napoleon, and is very just. It is difficult to understand the movements and motives of parties in a foreign country, and therefore Lord Melbourne does not feel able to pronounce any opinion upon the transactions in France. Lord Melbourne had seen G——'s letters, a pert jackanapes, who always takes the worst view of every subject, and does as ...
— The Letters of Queen Victoria, Volume 1 (of 3), 1837-1843) • Queen Victoria
... impertinent jackanapes you are, to be sure, Morris! But I will 'put it to him,' as you call it! Here, you young ...
— Ishmael - In the Depths • Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth
... never wrong. Lord Gosford always voted against him too; and do you think, jackanapes, that my friend the Earl of Gosford and—and—myself were ever wrong? No, sir, men in my day were different creatures from what they are now: we were never wrong, sir; we loved our country, and had no motive for being ...
— Precaution • James Fenimore Cooper
... names of Margaret Gatty and Juliana Horatia Ewing. So liberal were the subscriptions that there was a surplus of more than L200, and with this we endowed two L5 annuities in the Cambridge Fund for Old Soldiers—as the "Jackanapes," and "Leonard" annuities. ...
— Juliana Horatia Ewing And Her Books • Horatia K. F. Eden
... You jackanapes! None of your paltry spite; My heart's not black,—your liver 'tis that's white; So hold your jaw. Why should I grieve to see That men for love such arrant fools can be? The more the merrier; for on each day, Our Princess 'scapes a husband's dreaded sway; She gives ...
— Turandot: The Chinese Sphinx • Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller |
