"Harebrained" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... at once the piercing glance of the eye. The old generals, to be sure, boasted professional experience, but, having ossified their experience into pedantic maxims, they had less professional skill. After their armies had been ignominiously routed by the harebrained young fellows opposed to them, they could easily prove, that, by the rules of war, they had been most improperly beaten; but their young opponents, whose eager minds had transmuted the rules of war into instincts of intelligence, were indifferent to ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 93, July, 1865 • Various
... like a second nature. Perhaps he might have been suspected of meannesss if it had not been for the fact that with wonderful disinterestedness and all a comrade's readiness, his purse would be opened for some harebrained boy who had ruined himself at cards or by some other folly. He did a service of this kind with such thoughtful tact, that it seemed as though he himself had at one time lost heavy sums at play; he never considered that he had any right to ...
— The Country Doctor • Honore de Balzac
... the petty officer, then whirled on Tom and Roger. "You space-blasted idiots!" he shouted. "You good-for-nothing harebrained, moronic dumbbells! Do you know what ...
— Sabotage in Space • Carey Rockwell
... it, for it's rather important," added Oaklands; "but I need not caution you, you are not one of the harebrained sort; if it had been my ...
— Frank Fairlegh - Scenes From The Life Of A Private Pupil • Frank E. Smedley
... so perfectly harebrained," she smiled, "it is embarrassing sometimes. You have heard, of course, all about ...
— The King In Yellow • Robert W. Chambers
... military prudence; they felt best on horseback, and would accept a score of ill chances and fight in the saddle, rather than a dozen advantages and go afoot. I think they were not displeased at their discovery by the sentinel, which gave them an excuse for a harebrained onset ahorse, in place of the tedious manoeuvre afoot that had been planned. As for Tom and me, we were at the age when a man will dare ...
— Philip Winwood • Robert Neilson Stephens
... last two missions. That Red had looked easy, the way he was wandering around. He hadn't spotted them until they were well into their run, but when he got started he'd made them look like slow motion, just the same. If he hadn't tried that harebrained sudden deceleration.... Coulter shook his head at the memory. And on the last mission they'd been lucky to get a draw. Those boys ...
— Slingshot • Irving W. Lande |
