"Tipster" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... book. A critic engaged in the dangerous art of creating the "book of the year" wants room to hedge, and in the newest journalism there is no room to hedge. So the critic refrains from the act of creation. He imitates the discretion of the sporting tipster, who names several horses as being likely to win one race. "Among the books of the year are Blank, Blank, and Blank," he says. (But what he means is, "The book of the year is to be found among Blank, Blank, ...
— Books and Persons - Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 • Arnold Bennett
... the Favourite out for exercise). Ah! don't look so bad, ARTHUR, after his spin! They are asking all round if he'll run, if he'll win. They would like much to know, I've no manner of doubt. Why, there isn't a Bookie, a Tipster, or Tout, Not to mention an Owner, or Trainer, or Vet, But desires the straight tip—which I wish they may get! If they knew he'd been "nobbled," they'd greatly rejoice; Then they'd back other cracks—Dissolution for choice— With a confident mind. "Nobbled!" Ah! ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 102, May 21, 1892 • Various |
