"Affaire" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... about the Holbein drawing, "La Danse," dealt with in the article in the Universal Review, "L'Affaire Holbein-Rippel." Together with various papers relating to the same matter. This article was not reproduced in Essays on Life, Art and Science (afterwards The Humour of Homer) because of the trouble of reproducing the illustrations, but it is among the Universal ...
— The Samuel Butler Collection - at Saint John's College Cambridge • Henry Festing Jones
... In the "Affaire Dreyfus" I constantly recurred to the main point—Dreyfus was condemned upon the "bordereau"; Dreyfus was not the author of the "bordereau," therefore he was not responsible for the documents named in ...
— Boer Politics • Yves Guyot
... HE! qu'avons-nous affaire Du Turc ny du Sophy, Don don. Pourveu que j'aye a boire, Des grandeurs je dis fy. Don don. Trincque, Seigneur, le vin est bon: ...
— A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One • Thomas Frognall Dibdin
... blundered rather strangely in the celebrated Betsy Canning case, as Balzac did in the 'Affaire Peytel'; but the story is too long for repetition in this place. The trials of Miss Canning and her supposed kidnappers are amongst the most amusing in the great collection of State Trials. See vol. xix. of the 8vo edition. Fielding's defence of his own conduct ...
— Hours in a Library - New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) • Leslie Stephen
... do not vtterlie dispraise Experience // learning, but they saie, that without learning, without // common experience, knowledge of all facions, and learnyng. // haunting all companies, shall worke in yougthe, both wisdome, and habilitie, to execute anie weightie affaire. Surelie long experience doth proffet moch, but moste, and almost onelie to him (if we meene honest affaires) that is dili- gentlie before instructed with preceptes of well doinge. For good precepts of learning, be the eyes of the minde, to looke wiselie before a man, which waie to go right, and ...
— The Schoolmaster • Roger Ascham
... page de guerre, Qui l'attend dans l'auberge, au plus profond du val, Ou tout a l'heure il vient de laisser son cheval Pour qu'en hate on lui donne a boire, et qu'on le ferre. Il dit au forgeron:—Faites vite. Une affaire M'appelle.—Il ...
— La Legende des Siecles • Victor Hugo
... retour de franchise; je ne desire pas que cette controverse entre de plus dans notre correspondance privee, comme elle est le sujet et le sera je crains encore davantage de discussion politique. Je veux seulement dire qu'il est impossible de donner a cette affaire le cachet d'une simple affaire de famille; l'attitude prise a Paris sur cette affaire de mariage des le commencement etait une fort etrange; il fallait toute la discretion de Lord Aberdeen pour qu'elle n'amenat un eclat plutot; mais ...
— The Letters of Queen Victoria, Vol 2 (of 3), 1844-1853 • Queen Victoria
... ardent Royalist. Eugene Scribe—another amateur lawyer—as M. de Guillonnet-Merville indulgently remarked, had just left the office, and Honore was established at the desk and table vacated by him. He became very fond of his chief, whom he has immortalised as Derville in "Une Tenebreuse Affaire," "Le Pere Goriot," and other novels; and he dedicated to this old friend "Un Episode sous la Terreur," which was published in 1846, and is a powerful and touching story of the remorse felt by ...
— Honore de Balzac, His Life and Writings • Mary F. Sandars
... saye sooth I never did believe the legend my self. "Well," sayes the General with a Twinkle, "it wolde not be Politick to denye a Romance w'ch is soe profitable to my Reputation, but to be Candid, Gentlemenn, I have no certain recollection of the Affaire. My Brother Lawrence was wont to say that the Tree or Shrubb in question was no Cherrye but a Bitter Persimmon; moreover he told me that I stoutly denyed any Attacke upon it; but being caught with the Goods (as Tully ...
— Mince Pie • Christopher Darlington Morley
... Le Cardinal Barberini, que je tiens pour Serviteur du Roy, a parle franchement sur ceste affaire, et m'a dit qu'il croyoit presqu'impossible qu'il se trouve jamais remede, si vous ne la voulez recommencer; disant que depuis le commencement jusqu'a la fin vous vous estes monstre du tout passionne contre ce qui est de l'honneur et de la grandeur ...
— The History of Freedom • John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
... will about it strait; No longer staying, but to giue the Mother Notice of my affaire: I humbly thanke you: Commend me to my brother: soone at night Ile send him certaine word ...
— The First Folio [35 Plays] • William Shakespeare
... having to do with a despot who would have his will executed, when the first volume of Smith's Wealth of Nations fell into his hands. He opened on the division of Labour, our favourite pin-making: "Ha, ha! voila mon affaire; je ferai mes calcules comme on fait les epingles!" And he divided the labour among two hundred men, who knew no more than the simple rules of arithmetic, whom he assembled in one large building, and there ...
— The Life And Letters Of Maria Edgeworth, Vol. 1 • Maria Edgeworth
... which Henry sent him a draft. If he did, there are expressions contained in it which amount to a threat of separation. In case the pope was obstinate Francis was to say, "Lors force seroit de pourvoir audict affaire, par autres voyes et facons, qui peut etre, ne vous seroint gueres agreable."—State ...
— The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) • James Anthony Froude
... wealth, and the valet replies: "Point de bien! votre bonne mine est un Perou. Tournez-vous un peu, que je vous considere encore; allons, monsieur, vous vous moquez; il n'y a point de plus grand seigneur que vous a Paris; voila une taille qui vaut toutes les dignites possibles, et notre affaire est infaillible absolument infaillible." His genius for intrigue is certainly admirable, and, were that a sufficient claim for glory, we would chime in with him in his final cry of victory, as the piece closes: "Ouf! ma gloire m'accable. Je meriterais bien d'appeler ...
— A Selection from the Comedies of Marivaux • Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux
... contente myself with common thankes, on leaving youres, and Mr. B.'s hospitabel house, because of thatt there affaire, which I neede not mention! and truly am ashamed to mention, as I have been to looke you in the face ever since it happen'd. I don't knowe how itt came aboute, butt I thought butt att first of joking a littel, or soe; and seeing ...
— Pamela (Vol. II.) • Samuel Richardson
... being aroused, I resolve to probe Tunicu on the subject of his affaire de coeur, at our ...
— The Pearl of the Antilles, or An Artist in Cuba • Walter Goodman
... with our business. I don't think, in the first case, that this was an affaire de coeur, ...
— The Drone - A Play in Three Acts • Rutherford Mayne
... think, must be understood some remarkable words in a letter written by William to Portland, on the day after Sacheverell's bold and unexpected move. William calculates the amount of the supplies, and then says: "S'ils n'y mettent des conditions que vous savez, c'est une bonne affaire: mais les Wigges sont si glorieux d'avoir vaincu ...
— The History of England from the Accession of James II. - Volume 3 (of 5) • Thomas Babington Macaulay
... grace monstre de qei' no' et toutz nos amys sumes tut ditz tenutz de lui rendre grace et m'ciz. N're entent est a demorer en pees en le ewe taunt qe no' eoms pris c'teyn point ove no' alliez et autres nos amys de fflandres de ceo q' soit affaire. Trescher fitz dieu soit gardeyn de vo'. Don' souz n're secree seal en n're nief Cogg[143] Thom', le Mescredy en la veille ...
— A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483 • Anonymous
... manners and customs. Adultery is no phenomenon; it is common enough—une affaire de canape... There must be some curb on women who commit adultery for trinkets, poetry, Apollo, ...
— The Origins of Contemporary France, Volume 5 (of 6) - The Modern Regime, Volume 1 (of 2)(Napoleon I.) • Hippolyte A. Taine
... en physique, bon:—quaite well, here?" tapping his chest expressively the while—"non! I knows vat ees ze mattaire. C'est une affaire de coeur, ees it not, mon ami? You cannote deceives me, I tells to you! But, nevaire mind dat, my youngish friends: cheer oop and be gays—toujours gai! I have had, myselfs, it ees one, two, tree,—seex lofes! Seex times ees mon coeur brise, and I was desole; and now, ...
— She and I, Volume 2 - A Love Story. A Life History. • John Conroy Hutcheson |
