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Updated: May 25, 2025
A peasant or a pettifogging solicitor might very easily overreach an astute diplomate over a bargain in some remote country village; and the wiliest journalist may prove the veriest simpleton in a piece of business. Lucien could but be a puppet in the hands of Petit-Claud.
"Now, now, now, where is the hand? that is what I want to see." The speaker was a little pettifogging clerk. "You will find it above, nailed to the door-post by a crossbow bolt." "Good!" said the clerk. He whispered his master, "What a goodly show will the 'pieces de conviction' make!" and with this he wrote them down, enumerating them in separate squeaks as he penned them.
I don't mean to say that you can learn nothing from them, because they are not all fools by any means, and they will often pick out your weak points with a malignant sagacity, as a pettifogging lawyer will frequently find a real flaw in trying to get at everything he can quibble about.
He, poor soul, stunned but not convinced, clings desperately to some pettifogging convictions which he calls truth, and refuses a clearer vision. His habit of remembering what he believed yesterday clogs his mind, and makes it hard for him to believe something entirely new to-day.
They dragged out once more the old pettifogging engine of war which has always served the impotent against creative men, and, though it has never killed anybody, yet it never fails to have an effect upon the simple-minded and the fools: they accused him of plagiarism.
"You are about, I am informed, to proceed to the United States, a country against which I acknowledge I entertain a serious antipathy. They are not a gentlemanlike people, and I am given to understand that they are generally dishonest in all their dealings. Their President is a low person, and all their ideas of government are pettifogging.
A country attorney, as we have seen, has plenty of excuses for his mediocrity; he takes up the cause of petty passions, he undertakes pettifogging business, he lives by charging expenses, he strains the Code of procedure and pleads in court.
"Don't you see, Wake, whose father is a pettifogging lawyer, is going to get up a make-believe law court I heard him talk about it last term instead of the regular debating evening. The best of it is, we kids shall all be in it, instead of getting stuck on the back bench to clap, as we generally are." "He's no business to tell us to fail not at our peril," growled Dig. "What will they do?"
And again, the matter, "No king hath such an armoury."... No king, I would have you observe. 'Why, this is monstrous foolish pettifogging, Katharine said. 'No king would believe a treason in such words. 'I call to mind Gilmaw of Hurstleas, near our homes, the voice came, reflectively. 'I did know him, said Katharine. 'You had his head.
'Good idea have a place more or less your own, said Gerald. 'Yes. But I don't care for it much. I'm tired of the people I am bound to find there. 'What kind of people? 'Art music London Bohemia the most pettifogging calculating Bohemia that ever reckoned its pennies. But there are a few decent people, decent in some respects.
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