Top 28 Officious Quotes
#1. In case you are wondering about the name, Yahoo stands for Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle.
Amanda Eliza Bertha
#2. Dan felt a throb of resentment (officious prick) but suppressed it.
Stephen King
#3. Why will any man be so impertinently officious as to tell me all prospect of a future state is only fancy and delusion? Is there any merit in being the messenger of ill news. If it is a dream, let me enjoy it, since it makes me both the happier and better man.
Joseph Addison
#4. My idle curiosity might lead to something more official, if the lieutenant feels his work is being hindered by an officious, small-minded, self-important bureaucrat. Not you, of course. I speak in general terms only.
Douglas Preston
#5. She's one of those third year girls who gripe my liver ... You know, American college kids. They come over here to take their third year and lap up a little culture ... They're officious and dull. They're always making profound observations they've overheard.
Gene Kelly
#6. An artist has to be humble, an editor must be officious, and a publisher must be somewhere out in the galaxy enjoying godhood. It was a caste system, pure and simple. And it was accepted that way. Nobody thought of contracts, nobody thought of insisting on better deals.
Jack Kirby
#7. When people are hurting, what they really need is someone who is fully there for them - not someone who is condescending or officious. The only way for you to be there for them is by facing your fear or anger, whatever feelings cause you to shut down.
Pema Chodron
#8. Clean of officious fence or hedge, Half-wild and wholly tame, The wise turf cloaks the white cliff-edge As when the Romans came.
Helen Simonson
#9. Here is what to do if you want to get a lift from a Vogon: forget it. They are one of the most unpleasant races in the Galaxy - not actually evil, but bad-tempered, bureaucratic, officious and callous.
Douglas Adams
#10. Yes, sir, Hicks said. He was a small young man, very officious, who would never contradict a superior. If Morris claimed the clouds were made of cheese Hicks would just stand to attention, twitch his nose, and swear blind he could smell Cheddar.
Bernard Cornwell
#11. I can't tell you that, sir." The woman's voice had gone from bored-but-friendly to officious-and-stern.
Joseph Finder
#12. Officious, innocent, sincere, Of every friendless name the friend.
Samuel Johnson
#13. The fact is, that you were sick of civility, of deference, of officious attention. You were disgusted with the women who were always speaking, and looking, and thinking for your approbation alone.
Jane Austen
#14. diverted him from the maternal side. If he did happen just now to be at home my solicitude would of course seem officious; for in his many wanderings - I believed
Henry James
#15. No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.
Edward Abbey
#17. Jack Torrance thought: Officious little prick.
Stephen King
#18. Come, come, be every one officious
To make this banquet; which I wish may prove
More stern and bloody than the Centaurs' feast.
William Shakespeare
#19. I would not have taken you on. Jack's hands were clenched tightly in his lap, working against each other, sweating. Officious little prick, officious little prick, officious -
Stephen King
#20. Why is it that we all - myself included - believe these stories? Why are we so quick to assume that the TSA is a bunch of jack-booted thugs, officious and arbitrary and drunk with power? It's because everything seems so arbitrary, because there's no accountability or transparency in the DHS.
Bruce Schneier
#21. I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.
Larry Wall
#22. Step aside? I step aside for nobeast, whether it be a hallowed hedgehog, an officious otter, a seasoned squirrel, a mutterin' mole or a befuddled badger!
Brian Jacques
#23. Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
Matthew Arnold
#24. I don't like the term 'black people', I find it demeaning to those of us that actually qualify as 'people'.
Zach Braff
#25. When a prisoner of style escapes, it's called an evasion.
Mark Twain
#26. If someone wants to give you money, whatever the source, you should take it. Every religious-historical authority agrees about that.
Antal Szerb
#27. There is no such thing as the Queen's English. The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and we own the bulk of the shares!
Mark Twain
#28. Sometimes, you're going to have to work hard, sometimes extra hard, and sometimes you still won't get that recognition. That's life. That's the way it is. But if you keep working, eventually you'll get the prize you're seeking.
Ryan Howard
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