"There are some young idiots," he said, "who go about to these literary tea-parties.
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole
He did not realise that some young woman at a tea-party the day before had said precisely these same things and he had said: "Of all the affected idiots!"
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole
And if it had not been for those two idiots, Ark and Dally, I shouldn't have got so far into the champagne.
"Only One Love, or Who Was the Heir"
Charles Garvice