"Poppycock" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... busy and open this thing. They've got to be fed, you know,—and it's all damned poppycock discussing the matter ...
— Anderson Crow, Detective • George Barr McCutcheon
... poppycock!" the general shouted. "That and this other talk about using up resources. Whatever we did in the past—or are about to do—has been done already. I've lain awake nights, mister, thinking about all these things and there is no answer, believe me, except the one I give you. The question ...
— Project Mastodon • Clifford Donald Simak
... "It isn't all poppycock, my dear," old Hector rebuked her. He rolled another bread-crumb. "Andrew has her address," he resumed after a long silence. "She's in New York. He asked me to wire her to come immediately, or else permit him to wire her in my name. ...
— Kindred of the Dust • Peter B. Kyne
... not wanting: France will rise again! One must not despair! It is a salutary punishment! We were really too immoral! etc. Oh! eternal poppycock! No! one does not recover from such a blow! As for me, I feel myself struck ...
— The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters • George Sand, Gustave Flaubert
... Harve. You can take cover behind your mama, of course, and put her on to fussing about your nerves and your high-strungness and all that kind of poppycock." ...
— "Captains Courageous" • Rudyard Kipling |
