"Goody-goody" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... put up to making a fuss by a goody-goody widow who's making up to him just now." Bubbles spoke ...
— From Out the Vasty Deep • Mrs. Belloc Lowndes
... gleam of satire played round Lady Winsleigh's proud mouth. She paused and laughed a little. Then she resumed in her old careless way—"You must be getting very goody-goody, Mimsey, to talk to me about my husband! Why don't you read me a lecture on the duties of wives and the education of children? I am sure you know how profoundly it ...
— Thelma • Marie Corelli
... chords of gentleness that I had never otherwise been able to reach. His religion had begun with Miss Redwood and he had clung to it instinctively as he had clung to the vague memory of his mother. No word of mine and no teaching was to destroy so precious a heritage. He was not goody-goody about it. No boy who did and said and thought the things that Jerry did could be accused of prudery or sentimentalism. But in his quieter moods I knew that he thought ...
— Paradise Garden - The Satirical Narrative of a Great Experiment • George Gibbs
... swearing; "for they all mean that there is hate in your hearts, and it is that which is wrong, and not the mere words or faces." He ran the risk of being laughed at, but they didn't laugh, for something in his way of talking to them, even when verging on what they called "goody-goody," inspired ...
— The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him • Paul Leicester Ford
... You can believe in immortality without believing in miracles and that Eve was made out of a man's rib, and without being goody-goody." ...
— Judith of the Godless Valley • Honore Willsie |
