Quotes About Popinjay

The words brilliant, radical, original were more often than not the descriptors applied to Scholar Kiladi's work. There was of course a leavening of popinjay, recluse, and dangerous madman from his detractors, but those served more to relieve than alarm her. A scholar who did not make collegial enemies was a scholar who was not exercising his intellect to its fullest extent.

Now let us turn again to January, who, in the garden with his fair May, sang full merrier than the popinjay, "I love you best, and always shall, and I will love no other one.

I am selfish, father? Because I will not become the thing I despise? And narrow, Philips, to despise what you do not know. I am to be a painted popinjay! I tell you, sir, Cleone may take me as I am! Or leave you as you are, said Sir Maurice gently.

A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.

The tsar of War and Peace, especially in the BBC version, is a complete popinjay and a useless character. The real tsar, Alexander I, had an amazing career.

Ha! ha! suppose one of us were to carry off the Creole marchioness from that Georges Marest!" "Fine occupation that, for a clerk in our office!" cried Godeschal. "Will you never control your vanity, popinjay?