"Vaut" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... laughingly said, 'Paris vaut bien une messe,' so I might with reason say, 'Berlin vaut bien une preche;' and I could afterward, as before, accommodate myself to the very enlightened Christianity, filtrated from all superstition, which could then be had in the churches ...
— The Essays of "George Eliot" - Complete • George Eliot
... mais ce diable d'homme ne m'en laissa pas le temps: "A prsent, mon garon, fais-moi tes adieux... voil ma classe qui sonne, et quand j'en sortirai, je ne veux plus te retrouver ici. L'air de cette Bastille ne te vaut rien.... File vite Paris, travaille bien, prie le Bon Dieu, fume des pipes, et tche d'tre un homme. —Tu m'entends, tche d'tre un homme. —Car vois-tu! mon petit Daniel, tu n'es encore qu'un enfant, et ...
— Le Petit Chose (part 1) - Histoire d'un Enfant • Alphonse Daudet
... observer; and strikingly illustrative of the fact that it is the energy of the individual men that gives strength to a State, and confers a value even upon the very soil which they cultivate. As the French proverb has it: "Tant vaut ...
— Self Help • Samuel Smiles
... consumed over his claret, sitting at the little polished tables in the Royal street cafes while thinking over his plan. By and by he had it perfect. It would cost, beyond doubt, all the money he had, but—le jeu vaut la chandelle—for some hours he would be once more a Charles of Charleroi. Once again should the nineteenth of January, that most significant day in the fortunes of the house of Charles, be fittingly ...
— Roads of Destiny • O. Henry
... "Le jeu n'en vaut pas la chandelle!" she exclaimed, with a quick nervous laugh that grated grievously ...
— Infelice • Augusta Jane Evans Wilson
... I pigeon-holed her problem among others that are still awaiting solution, and she died before I realised how well she had translated into the language of modern Bayswater the "Paris vaut bien ...
— Castellinaria - and Other Sicilian Diversions • Henry Festing Jones
... VIII., for having instigated the King to attack Nantes, contrary to his engagements, Anne replied, "He had no written promise." "Et quoi, Madame!" he indignantly exclaimed; "la parole d'un roy, ne vaut elle pas mille scellez?" Louis de Rieux, the last of the race, was shot on the Champs des Martyrs. True to the motto of his house, "A toute heure, Rieux," he showed himself ready "at any hour" to die for the altar ...
— Brittany & Its Byways • Fanny Bury Palliser
... in the Lagoons this evening, for the purpose of visiting by twilight that solitary Isle of St Clements, where Monks exchange the voluntary seclusion for penal dungeons, (l'un vaut bien l'autre!) the sky glowing with its last light, lingered over its tall belfry and few old trees, and a sea as smooth as a crystal pavement slept at the base of its grim walls, all in vain; Campanile, Convent, Grove, and that pyramidal Powder Magazine, looked obdurately ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 364, February 1846 • Various
... a roving trade gather no moss. The Comprachicos were poor. They might have said what the lean and ragged witch observed, when she saw them setting fire to the stake, "Le jeu n'en vaut pas la chandelle." It is possible, nay probable (their chiefs remaining unknown), that the wholesale contractors in the trade were rich. After the lapse of two centuries, it would be difficult to throw any light on ...
— The Man Who Laughs • Victor Hugo
... extent at the hands of private individuals as would be the case at the hands of the State. The guarantee for good government is even less solid where power is entrusted to a corporate body, for, as Turgot once said, "La morale des corps les plus scrupuleux ne vaut jamais celle des particuliers honnetes."[11] In both cases, public opinion is relatively impotent. In the case of direct Government action, on the other hand, the views of those who wish to uphold a high standard of public morality can find expression in Parliament, and the latter can, if it chooses, ...
— Political and Literary essays, 1908-1913 • Evelyn Baring
... lasse qui me porte. Un mot de ma facon vaut un ample discours. J'ai sous Louis le Grand commence d'avoir cours, Mince, long, plat, ...
— Women of Modern France - Woman In All Ages And In All Countries • Hugo P. Thieme
... fellow. Act wisely, upon solid principles, and from true motives, but keep them to yourself, and never talk sententiously. When you are invited to drink, say that you wish you could, but that so little makes you both drunk and sick, 'que le jeu me vaut pas ...
— The PG Edition of Chesterfield's Letters to His Son • The Earl of Chesterfield
... The bookseller's booth is arched over, and is open at front and side. Dorimant and Cleante are looking out; one leans on the books on the window-sill, the other lounges at the door, and they watch the pretty Hippolyte who is chaffering with the lace-seller at the opposite shop. "Ce visage vaut mieux que toutes vos chansons," says Dorimant to the bookseller. So they loitered, and bought books, and flirted in their lace ruffles, and ribbons, and flowing locks, and wide canons, when Moliere was young, and when this ...
— The Library • Andrew Lang
... chimere ardemment poursuivie, quel que soit l'ideal, votre reve vaut mieux, et vous avez surtout le biasement des Dieux, Psyche, qu'Eros lui-meme ...
— In the Courts of Memory 1858-1875. • L. de Hegermann-Lindencrone
... entered the Vier Marchi there was Dormy Jamais on the roof of the Cohue Royale, calmly munching his bread. When he saw Rullecour and the Governor appear, he chuckled to himself, and said, in Jersey patois: "I vaut mux alouonyi l'bras que l'co," which is to say: It is better to stretch the arm than the neck. The Governor would have done more wisely, he thought, to believe the poor beganne, and to have risen ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... fort bien!" said the operator when he had finished. "Voila un sang-froid bien opportun, et qui vaut mille ...
— Villette • Charlotte Bronte |
