Hoity Quotes & Sayings

I don't like sitting still at a desk and often conduct business on my Blackberry or in walking meetings. — Dylan Lauren

France was always a little scary to me. I had the preconception that France was a bit hoity-toity. — April Bloomfield

Waiting is a period of learning. The longer we wait, the more we hear about him for whom we are waiting. — Henri Nouwen

Maybe she was being so hoity-toity because she didn't have her own fairy godmother. — Charlaine Harris

I've never thought of myself as a hoity-toity cultural critic. — David Cross

I can learn my lines fine. It's just reading them in the first place that is the problem. — Salma Hayek

If you're going to spend your life standing on principle, you want to be sure everyone understands what the principle is. — Elmore Leonard

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

But sometimes [love] was just there: ... he was ... shocked to know he had been lucky to live and know it, to love and be loved. — Richard Flanagan

Elevate. Each day, live to elevate yourself, each day elevate one person. Make elevation your religion and you shall reach infinity. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi

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

Opera is when a tenor and soprano want to make love, but are prevented from doing so by a baritone. — George Bernard Shaw

Alone with Giddon again, Bitterblue considered him, rather liking the mud streaks on his face. He looked like a handsome sunken rowboat. — Kristin Cashore

The reason I trust so much is that I don't feel like I have anything to hide. If somebody betrays that trust, it could never be so bad, because I don't keep any secrets. — Kate Hudson

Don't say that I'm beautiful and exquisite and like no one you've ever met before and that you're very much afraid that you're going to fall in love with me. You'll say it eventually, but let's postpone it. Apart from that, I think we'll get along very nicely. — Ayn Rand

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