Quixotry

Don't the Tories need discipline and focus just now, rather than Quixotry?

Archive 2008-06-01 2008

This feminine Quixotry is a sentiment which hallows love and turns it to worthy uses; it exalts and reverences love.

Two Poets 2007

This feminine Quixotry is a sentiment which hallows love and turns it to worthy uses; it exalts and reverences love.

Two Poets 2007

Billingshurst's place in literature was made by William Cobbett, for it was here that he met the boy in a smock frock who recalled to his mind so many of his deeds of Quixotry.

Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas

Wilson, therefore, gladly suffered Paul's lunatic Quixotry.

The Fortunate Youth 1914

Mr. Flexen had a strong feeling that not only would Mr. Manley afford no help to bring the murderer of Lord Loudwater to justice, but, that owing to the vein of Quixotry in his nature, he was capable of helping the murderer to escape.

The Loudwater Mystery Edgar Jepson 1900

The solidarity of Conservative interests was a dangerous fiction, unless it was carried out with the fullest reciprocity; carried out by Prussia alone it was Quixotry; it prevented King and Government from executing their true task, the protection of Prussia from all injustice, whether it came from home or abroad; this was the task given to the King by God.

Bismarck and the Foundation of the German Empire Headlam, James W 1899

Wilson, therefore, gladly suffered Paul's lunatic Quixotry.

The Fortunate Youth William John Locke 1896

Quixotry; and the sense of his position is that the human mind is a rather feeble affair, that can hardly begin to think except with blunders.

Logic Deductive and Inductive Carveth Read 1889

Anyhow, this piece of Quixotry on your father's part, as it was unjust in itself, has brought forth a monstrous family of injustices.

Kidnapped: The Adventures of David Balfour 1886