"Quitter" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a white man, and he had proved himself not a quitter. The girl had been overwrought by their terrible flight. That she should fancy herself beginning to fall in love with him was quite understandable. The discovery of the fact set his jaded nerves to tingling with a pleasant thrill even as he realized ...
— Bloom of Cactus • Robert Ames Bennet
... the—end. I know that. I tell you I've got past caring a curse about things. When the end comes, what does it matter! Not a thing. It's useless talking, old friend," he said, as Bat attempted to break in, "quite useless. But don't reckon I'm a willing quitter. I'll play the game till it can't be played longer. And when I've got to I'll throw my hands up. Not before. But Idepski can't ...
— The Man in the Twilight • Ridgwell Cullum
... allowed to have—we'd have to go live in some cheap apartment; we couldn't even have a maid for awhile; we couldn't entertain anybody; we couldn't have any outside pleasures; I'd have to work like a dog; you know what the crowd on the hill would say—and then I'm beaten before I start anyway. Quitter! You wouldn't call a man a quitter if he stayed out of a hurdle race because he'd broken a ...
— Rope • Holworthy Hall
... you didn't think I was a quitter!" His voice was grim and crisp. "Well, in the dirty battle for bread and butter there are no decorations for gallantry in action; in that conflict I do not have to live up to the one that Congress gave me. And why shouldn't I quit? I come from a long line of combination fighter-quitters. ...
— The Pride of Palomar • Peter B. Kyne
... that a good camp-mate is about the scarcest article to be found. If we take in a stranger on this trip, which I surmise from the outfits is going to be a long one, the chances are more than even that he will turn out a quitter or ...
— The Boy Chums in the Forest - or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades • Wilmer M. Ely
... par 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 n aprs ...
— Contes et lgendes - 1re Partie • H. A. Guerber
... maybe sized me up all right as bein' a fool, but he missed it on my bein' a quitter. I had no notion of being fired an' blistered an' turned out to grass that early in the game. I wrote her a poem every other day, an' lied between heats, till the po' gal was nearly crazy, an' when I finally got it ...
— The Bishop of Cottontown - A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills • John Trotwood Moore
... to Raphael, and engraved as such (in 1620), by H.H. Quitter, and afterwards by several other artists. Dr. Waagen pronounced it to be Moretto's work, and accordingly the name was changed; as such Braun has photographed it. It is now officially recognised rightly as a Giorgione (vide ...
— Giorgione • Herbert Cook
... enveloppée qu'il n'y avait qu'une sotte qui eut pû s'en fâcher. Il paraissait, ce jour là , destiné á me tenir compagnie pendant le reste de la soirée, car mon mari avait un rendezvous et devait nous quitter bientôt. Notre souper avait pour base une petite volaill truffée. Les truffes étaient délicieuses, et quoique je les aime beaucoup, je me contins, nonobstant; je ne bus aussi qu'un seul verre de Champagne, ayant quelque pressentiment que la soirée ne se ...
— Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction • John Davenport
... Gouvernement fixant un delai de 48 heures pour l'acceptation des demandes y contenues. Giesl a ajoute verbalement que pour le cas ou la note ne serait pas acceptee integralement dans un delai de 48 heures, il avait l'ordre de quitter Belgrade avec le personnel de la Legation. Pachitch et les autres Ministres qui se trouvent en tournee electorale ont ete rappeles et sont attendus a Belgrade demain Vendredi a 10 heures du matin. Patchou qui m'a communique le contenu de ...
— Why We Are At War (2nd Edition, revised) • Members of the Oxford Faculty of Modern History
... La gloire et la guerre, Et qu'il me fallait quitter L'amour de ma mere, Je dirais au grand Cesar: Reprends ton sceptre et ton char, J'aime mieux ma mere, o gue! ...
— Les Miserables - Complete in Five Volumes • Victor Hugo
... to me," protested Hamlin, "as though I was a yellow dog. As though I was a quitter. I'm no quitter! But, if I'm ready to quit, who's got a better right? I'm not an Englishman, but there are several million Englishmen haven't done as much for England in this war as I have. What do you fellows know about it? You write about it, about the 'brave lads ...
— The Deserter • Richard Harding Davis
... warm, all right," replied Kerrigan, suspicious lest his companion in arms might be weakening, "but that'll never make a quitter out of me." ...
— The Titan • Theodore Dreiser
... never a quitter; and deep down in Patsy's heart was the determination to see the end of the road for all three of them—if fate ...
— Seven Miles to Arden • Ruth Sawyer
... struck town. Reckon you thought I was a quitter, but I ain't. You be at the Gaiety to-morrow morning at nine A.M. Maybe I can land you something. Don't say a word to anybody about it, and make yourself look as pretty as you can, and don't be late. Don't tell my folks I'm here. ...
— Calvary Alley • Alice Hegan Rice
... him. The other's face was a mask of pure agony, but he was no quitter. He was going to make ...
— Frigid Fracas • Dallas McCord Reynolds
... to this danger ground with the main idea of meeting his irate father-in-law face to face, be the consequences what they might, because his wife had begged him to; and there was as yet no sign of Jim turning out to be what Giraffe called a "quitter." ...
— The Boy Scouts in the Maine Woods - The New Test for the Silver Fox Patrol • Herbert Carter
... Junior. "The 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 ...
— Michael O'Halloran • Gene Stratton-Porter
... him for a moment in unfeigned amazement. Then slowly he shook his head. "All right, I'm no quitter. But I will say that I'm glad you ain't coming ...
— Calumet "K" • Samuel Merwin and Henry Kitchell Webster
... Ainsi, pret a quitter l'horizon de la vie, Pleurant de mes longs jours l'espoir evanoui, Je me retourne encore et d'un regard d'envie Je contemple ces biens dont ...
— French Lyrics • Arthur Graves Canfield
... incertain de l'opulence; Mon ame l'abeille imitant Aux pays d'esprit elancee Cueille les fleurs de la pensee Et les remet aux sentiment. Mais helas! dans ce vaste champ En vain je cherche la sagesse, Pres de moi certain Dieu fripon Me fait quitter l'ecole de Zenon Pour le charme de la tendresse; "L'homme est cree pour etre bon Et non savant, dit il, qu'il aime, Du bonheur c'est le vrai systeme" Je sens, ma foi, ...
— A Year's Journey through France and Part of Spain, Volume II (of 2) • Philip Thicknesse
... not determine, but I knew this—I could not turn about now and retreat. If I did that I would certainly lose, while if I fought it out there was still hope. No woman—at least no woman like Willifred Hardy—ever loved a coward, or a quitter, and I was determined she should not catalogue me in either class. All this came to me rather in instinct than thought, yet I was ready ...
— Love Under Fire • Randall Parrish
... course in a good many situations, but there's a time to hold on and a time to let go, and the limit, and a little beyond, is none too far to play a really good thing. But in business it's quite as important to know how to be a good quitter as a good fighter. Even when you feel that you've got a good thing, you want to make sure that it's good enough, and that you're good enough, before you ask to have the limit taken off. A lot of men who play a nice game of authors get their feelings hurt ...
— Old Gorgon Graham - More Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son • George Horace Lorimer
... Listen, then: 'Soyez, marquis, le depositaire de mes secrets, le confidant des mysteres de Madame Taliazuchi, l'oreille du trone, et le sanctuaire ou s'annonceront les complots de mes ennemis.' [Footnote: "I will give the conclusion of this letter which the polite marquis did not read aloud: 'Pour quitter le style oriental, je vous avertis que vous aurez l'oreille rebattue de miseres et de petites intrigues de prisonniers obscurs et qui ne vaudront pas genre de Madame Taliazuchi—elles envisagent les petites choses comme tres-importantes; elles sont charmees de figurer en politique, de jouer ...
— Frederick The Great and His Family • L. Muhlbach
... 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 ...
— The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay Volume 3 • Madame D'Arblay
... through with him. He's a quitter. I was in chinnin' with him last night an' he's lost his nerve. Says he's through, an' is goin' to take his time the minute he's fit to back a horse. Still an' all," he added, forehead wrinkling thoughtfully, "he's ...
— Shoe-Bar Stratton • Joseph Bushnell Ames
... tenement will recede from me in the quickest possible time. I am no worshipper of money,' says I, 'but there are some things I can't stand. I can stand the fabulous monster that I've read about that blows hot birds and cold bottles with the same breath. But I can't stand a quitter,' says I. 'They say you've got forty million dollars—well, you'll never have any less. And I was beginning to like ...
— Roads of Destiny • O. Henry
... bien regrette de ne pouvoir, avant de quitter Paris, faire un tour au Parc-des-Princes et presenter nos hommages a Madame Hamerton. Ce sera ...
— Philip Gilbert Hamerton • Philip Gilbert Hamerton et al
... high-spirited lad, would feel the defeat keenly; but he was determined not to take too great chances. When he saw that Colon had reached the limit he meant to slacken the pace, no matter what happened, nor how much the crew shouted at him for a "quitter." ...
— Fred Fenton on the Crew - or, The Young Oarsmen of Riverport School • Allen Chapman
... that will not keep him away. He will fight for what is his all the more because there is danger. What's more, he'll do his fighting on the ground—unless he's a quitter." ...
— A Daughter of the Dons - A Story of New Mexico Today • William MacLeod Raine
... I've never heard you say so much about a girl in my life! If I didn't know better, I'd say you were half-way in love with Polly, yourself. But I know what a quitter you are whenever there is a girl in the party," ...
— Polly and Eleanor • Lillian Elizabeth Roy
... insistait-on; en vain, a chaque minute, un officier accourait-il, la mine inquiete, pour supplier le duc de se hater. "J'aurai bientot fini," repetait-il en continuant d'engloutir des bouchees enormes. Quand l'entete mangeur se fut decide enfin a quitter la table et qu'il eut donne le signal de l'attaque, le grog de l'armee ennemie s'etait rapprochee, l'occasion etait perdue. La bataille le fut aussi pour ...
— French Conversation and Composition • Harry Vincent Wann
... was Cameron lost us the game. You know it, too. I know it's rotten to say this, but I can't help it. Cameron lost the game, and I say he's a rank 'quitter,' as Martin would say." ...
— Corporal Cameron • Ralph Connor
... We'll keep goin' right ahead," he said irritably. "Think I'm a quitter? Think I'm goin' to ...
— A Man Four-Square • William MacLeod Raine |
