Quotes About Stolid

James and I chose Lalage to watch for Lady Vallant's arrival along the road, because Lalage is plucky and stolid and wouldn't muff things, and is, of course, the eldest, and poor Lalage turned crimson but trotted to her post all the same.

undemonstrative in a burly fat-pig style

Of course she teased the girls, but it was not the same as having a grown man to work on—she had often felt like pinching Bob for being so stolid. July was no better—in fact, he and Bob were cut from the same mold, a strong but unimaginative mold.

The buccaroo dropped his stolid bull eyes, but raised them again and grinned. Well, I'm not particular about goin' this week, boss. That's not my name, said Drake, but it's what I am.

Miami is nothing like me, and that's why I need to be here - it's the opposite. I'm practical, where this place is moody, I'm stolid in my interior, where this place has a certain flair, and I'm materialistic in a sense that this place is fundamentally spiritual - there's a quicksilver quality about this place.

To be a colored man in America ... and enjoy it, you must be greatly daring, greatly stolid, greatly humorous and greatly sensitive. And at all times a philosopher.

You are far too stolid and unimaginative, Watson, to invent a tale like that.

When I was a kid, my goodness, corporate America was a bunch of stolid white guys in gray suits trying to be serious, and now it's stolid white guys in gray suits trying to be funny.