"Confidant" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... his head doubtfully. Such men as he seldom have a confidant, but he was used to speak to Dupontel with more freedom ...
— Those Who Smiled - And Eleven Other Stories • Perceval Gibbon
... continued the sword-cutler after a while, "if my countenance had only been more pleasing, I should not have been silent towards you for so many long days, nor would I have been content with, gazing at you from afar. I should have spoken to you, you would have made me the confidant of your troubles, and I would have given you the five hundred maravedis for the cure of your ...
— First Love (Little Blue Book #1195) - And Other Fascinating Stories of Spanish Life • Various
... of doing it, that, as I said, put me in a rage with her, so that I effectually turned her away from me, as I have said above, and she was gone; nor did she so much as tell me whither or which way she was gone. On the other hand, when I came to reflect on it that now I had neither assistant or confidant to speak to, or receive the least information from, my friend the Quaker excepted, it ...
— The Fortunate Mistress (Parts 1 and 2) • Daniel Defoe
... is a born actor. Well, gentlemen, I won't keep you any longer except to offer my sympathy that you have found A. B. so indifferent a confidant. ...
— Men of Affairs • Roland Pertwee
... said the prince, fixing his large, gray eyes with a searching expression upon Pollnitz—"what is said of me? Am I regarded as a rejected lover, or as a faithless one; for doubtless all Berlin knows of my love for this lady, you having been our confidant." ...
— Frederick The Great and His Family • L. Muhlbach
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