"Gumption" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... friends,' as you call them, keep themselves self-respecting girls without getting themselves talked about, and that's more than I can say of my sister. If ma had the right kind of gumption with you, she'd put a stop to ...
— Gaslight Sonatas • Fannie Hurst
... to bring her up to the standard of the Saturday- to-Monday-at-Brighton set with which he had surrounded himself, or which, to speak more correctly, had got round him. She'd a precious sight more gumption than he had ever possessed, and if he had listened to her instead of insisting upon her listening to him it would have been better for him. But there are some men who think that if you have a taste for champagne and the ballet that proves you are intended by nature for a nob, and he was one ...
— The Observations of Henry • Jerome K. Jerome
... had had more gumption. His wife could see furder ahead than he could. But that is often the ...
— Samantha at the St. Louis Exposition • Marietta Holley
... and forgot the sacred bond of matrimony! I thought at least you would have remembered that. But I says to your wife, I says: 'Billy will come back. He ain't the kind to leave you an' the kids go to the poorhouse, all for the want of a little gumption. He'll come ...
— Garrison's Finish - A Romance of the Race-Course • W. B. M. Ferguson
... your gumption, and tackled the job as you would any other rapids, depending on your quick eye, a firm wrist with the paddle, and general good sense, wasn't that it, Francois?" Ned ...
— Boy Scouts on Hudson Bay - The Disappearing Fleet • G. Harvey Ralphson
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