'But you're not a parent,' said Miss Wren, 'and consequently it's of no use talking to you upon a family subject.—To what am I to attribute the honour and favour?' 'To a wish to improve your acquaintance,' Mr Fledgeby replied.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

It’s no use talking to you,” someone shouts angrily.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

But we have to learn, learn, learn, and there will be plenty of time for social movements; we are not up to them yet, and upon my soul, we don't understand anything at all about them.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Nigh upon two thousand years have rolled across the earth since the Jewish Messiah hung upon His cross at Golgotha.
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

Alice Oh, there’s no use talking to you—
— from Alice in Wonderland A Dramatization of Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass" by Alice Gerstenberg

Nay, said Sir Launcelot, as at this time I will not tell you my name, unless then that ye tell me your name.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

“I see it’s no use talking to you now.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

My company was not unacceptable to the young and careless, as well as to the studious and literary; and as I took a particular pleasure in the company of modest women, I had no reason to be displeased
— from Hume (English Men of Letters Series) by Thomas Henry Huxley

I am not unwilling to tell you how I made my independency.
— from Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 725, November 17, 1877 by Various

But the rest of the dead lived not until the thousand years were completed.
— from A Brief Commentary on the Apocalypse by Sylvester Bliss

But I note with satisfaction that you are preparing yourselves by the practice of exercises, and by the submission to discipline, for the struggle which is not unlikely to test your determination.
— from Humanly Speaking by Samuel McChord Crothers

Zamboanga, the trade of which was almost nominal up to the year 1898, is now an active shipping centre of growing importance, where efforts are being made to foster direct trade with foreign eastern ports.
— from The Philippine Islands A Political, Geographical, Ethnographical, Social and Commercial History of the Philippine Archipelago, Embracing the Whole Period of Spanish Rule by Foreman, John, F.R.G.S.

An' nen he say,— "No use to tell you 'bout it, 'cause you won't Believe it, 'less you go there your own se'f An' see it wiv your own two eyes!"
— from A Child-World by James Whitcomb Riley