"Quitter" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... le Danube il y avait une fois un roi qui se trouva forc, peu de temps aprs son mariage, de quitter la reine, sa femme, et de partir pour la guerre. Son absence fut longue, trs longue, et la reine attendait son retour avec impatience. Elle voulait lui montrer son fils qu'il n'avait jamais vu, car l'enfant tait ...
— Contes et lgendes - 1re Partie • H. A. Guerber
... sooner he sees the fix I'm in the better he will realize that I'm not a quitter; but that this ain't just the place for me. Mickey, did you ever go through this? Why do I get it so ...
— Michael O'Halloran • Gene Stratton-Porter
... to be called a quitter," Pink remarked dispiritedly to the Happy Family in general; a harassed looking Happy Family, which sat around and said little, and watched the clock. In an hour they would be due to attend the second meeting ...
— The Happy Family • Bertha Muzzy Bower
... clear that he would not remain long at Westmore, and it was one of the miseries of Amherst's situation that he could not give the reasons for his defection, but must bear to figure in Duplain's terse vocabulary as a "quitter." The difficulty of finding a new manager expert enough to satisfy the directors, yet in sympathy with his own social theories, made Amherst fear that Duplain's withdrawal would open the way for Truscomb's reinstatement, ...
— The Fruit of the Tree • Edith Wharton
... day' and light, and life with those he loved. But when, in the course of the day, something broke from me of my reverence at his heavenly resignation, "Rsign?" he repeated, with a melancholy half smile; "mais comme ah!" and then in a voice of tenderness the most touching, he added, "Te quitter!" I dare not, even yet, hang upon my emotion ...
— The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay Volume 3 • Madame D'Arblay
... first one. I'd planned to show it to her, this summer. And now, she'll never see it—nor any of my work. Iron Skull, she had a bully mind. Just the little notes she's sent me, show she got the idea of the Projects. I guess I'm a quitter. If I can't keep my girl, what's ...
— Still Jim • Honore Willsie Morrow |
