"Sillily" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... judgment? and do their hearts glow with sentiment, ardent, generous, or humane? Were I to poetize on the subject I would call them the butterflies of the human kind, remarkable only for the idle variety of their ordinary glare, sillily straying from one blossoming weed to another, without a meaning or an aim, the idiot prey of every pirate of the skies who thinks them worth his while as he wings his way by them, and speedily by wintry time swept to that oblivion whence they might as ...
— The Letters of Robert Burns • Robert Burns
... sillily superfluous note to Verrian without any one's knowing besides, Miss Shirley must have stolen to his door herself and slipped it under. In order to do this unsuspected and unseen, she must have found out in some sort that ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells
... hastily when she got there, because, sillily enough, she thought, for the merest instant, ...
— The Vertical City • Fannie Hurst |
