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Updated: July 15, 2025
But if you should go under, if you should drop out from amid the universal forward-hurrying throng, what then? If you have done something that can be mentioned, in art or letters or science, the newspapers may toss you a paragraph; or if you have been a notorious criminal or charlatan or windbag, they may even devote a leader to you; but the multitude what time have they to think?
He breaks every sentence with a scoffing laugh 'windbag, 'monkey, 'donkey, 'bladder; and let him describe whom he will, it is always 'poor fellow. I said 'What a fine fellow you are to bespatter the whole world with this oil of vitriol! 'No man, he replied, 'speaks truth to me. I said, 'See what a crowd of friends listen to and admire you. 'Yes, they come to hear me, and they read what I write; but not one of them has the smallest intention of doing these things."
It is somewhat irritating, when a man, not remarkable in any way, begins to tell you that he can hardly go to any part of the world without being recognized by some one who remembers his striking aspect or is familiar with his famous name. "It costs me three hundred a year, having that picture to look at," said Mr. Windbag, pointing to a picture hanging on a wall in his library.
He was a knight of industry of the very worst description a braggart, a talker, a windbag. He preached, or rather he shrieked, the doctrine of equality, but the equality he sought was that which would place him on a par with his superiors, while in no way benefiting those beneath him.
The head of the firm of Punsonby's, whose credit stands, sir, as a model of sound industrial finance? Oh no, sir." Beale was taken aback. He had depended upon information which came from unimpeachable sources to secure the co-operation of this pompous windbag. "I'm sorry," he said.
The sensible politician is governed by considerations of social utility, the public good, the greatest attainable good; the political windbag starts from the idea of the rights of the individual abstract rights, of which the extent is affirmed, not demonstrated, for the political right of the individual is precisely what is in question.
It's your modesty keeps you blind, I guess. But here's what I don't see: why don't you come out of this little hole in the ground and get in line?" "In line?" "You're dead and buried here. Now you mention the Evening Windbag that nobody pays no more attention to than kids yelling in the street.
But he never mentioned his dignity; any more than at the same period a Warrington would confess that he was a contributor to the leading journals of the day. The members were on the look-out for any indications of intellectual originality, academical or otherwise, and specially contemptuous of humbug, cant, and the qualities of the 'windbag' in general.
And then, before the Judge, who was not so quick on the up-take, had time to recover, Jim poked his face belligerently forward and added, "The sole condition that prevents me from giving you just what you deserve a punch in the jaw! is that we are here on the street; but I'll promise you this, you infernal windbag, that if ever I get you alone, I'll change your facial boundaries until you'll never more be mistaken for me."
The kind of person whom Carlyle called a windbag, and to whom he applied equally vigorous epithets, was especially obnoxious to him, however dexterous might be such a man's manipulation of difficult arguments. His talent, too, scarcely lent itself to the art of indirect intimations of his opinions.
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