Toity Quotes

#1. France was always a little scary to me. I had the preconception that France was a bit hoity-toity.

April Bloomfield

#2. I'm well aware there is no job more important than that of raising a child, but the problem is that it isn't valued. Not in the sense that counts to me at the moment, which is financial.

Paula Hawkins

#3. A bit of the hoity went out of her toity at the brush-off. Snow held her grin in check. Barely.

Terri Osburn

#4. Maybe she was being so hoity-toity because she didn't have her own fairy godmother.

Charlaine Harris

#5. Hating all the cool kids takes an awful lots of energy and I'd given up on it a long long time ago.

John Green

#6. I've never thought of myself as a hoity-toity cultural critic.

David Cross

#7. This view, as a rounded whole and in all its essential elements, has very recently disappeared from science. It died a royal death with Agassiz.
[It had formerly been held that there were no genetic connections among species.]

Asa Gray

#8. A Wrinkle in Time was almost never published. You can't name a major publisher who didn't reject it.

Madeleine L'Engle

#9. I don't admire one particular style, but for evening events, I always look to Grace Kelly for inspiration.

Kylie Bax

#10. Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.

Doris Lessing

#11. Life is funny and we are really funny, especially when we get to be hoity toity; we can be so ridiculous. Life is fun.

Desmond Tutu

#12. Dick Elpinoy and I didn't get along. He was too hoity-toity for my tastes; I didn't follow rules well enough for his. But now we were united in villainy. Or something.

Lia Habel