"I' faith" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "I' faith, 'tis an excellent bonfire!" quoth he; "And the country is greatly obliged to me For ridding it in these times forlorn Of Rats that only ...
— Poems Every Child Should Know - The What-Every-Child-Should-Know-Library • Various
... KATHERINA. I' faith, sir, you shall never need to fear; I wis it is not halfway to her heart; But if it were, doubt not her care should be To comb your noddle with a three-legg'd stool, And paint your face, and ...
— The Taming of the Shrew • William Shakespeare [Craig, Oxford edition]
... sums of gold, altho' she was not his mistress by title. Gained over by the Choiseuls, she made proposals concerning me to the prince of so ridiculous a nature, that he said to her impatiently: "I' faith, my dear, as in the eyes of the world every woman who lives with a man who is not her husband is a ———, so I think a man is wise to choose the loveliest he can find; and in this way the king is at this moment much better off than any of his subjects." Only ...
— "Written by Herself" • Baron Etienne Leon Lamothe-Langon
... "I' faith, Monsieur de Launay, you deceive yourself very much," said the Marechal, to whom the recollection of his ancestors now occurred; "persons of our blood are subjects only at our own pleasure, for God has caused us to be born ...
— Cinq Mars, Complete • Alfred de Vigny
... I' faith, 'Twas a smart cannonading that we heard This evening, as we journey'd hitherward; 'Twas on our left hand. ...
— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. III • Kuno Francke (Editor-in-Chief)
... "I' faith, few knew him much here, save by word, He having elsewhere led his busier life; Though to be sure he left with us his wife." —"Ah, one of the tradesmen's sons, I now recall . . . Witty, I've heard . . . We did not ...
— Moments of Vision • Thomas Hardy
... And happy i' faith might these brothers have been If the river had never been rolling between The abbey so grand and the convent so gray, That stood on the opposite side of ...
— The Gypsies • Charles G. Leland
... rejoined the stranger, with a satisfied air, "I may say that I have business with you, and of vast importance. A long chase you have led me, i' faith; and weeks of travel have you cost me; so you may rest assured that I am happy in finding you ...
— Ella Barnwell - A Historical Romance of Border Life • Emerson Bennett
... woman, whom he used as God alone can tell, whenassoever he had drunken overmuch.' Quoth the friar, 'Thou tellest me thou hast been a merchant. Hast thou never cheated any one, as merchants do whiles!' 'I' faith, yes, sir,' answered Master Ciappelletto; 'but I know not whom, except it were a certain man, who once brought me monies which he owed me for cloth I had sold him and which I threw into a chest, without counting. A good month after, I found that they were four farthings more than they should have ...
— The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio • Giovanni Boccaccio
... go back, i' faith, once more and see, Whether this mock king and the Mother Queen— And who—Here's neither queen nor lord! What, king of crickets, is there none but you? Come off, [this crown: this sceptre, off!][225] This crown, this sceptre are King Richard's right: Bear ...
— A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. VIII (4th edition) • Various
... Pla. I' faith I like the audience that frequenteth there With much applause: a man shall not be chokt With the stench of garlick, nor be pasted firm To the barmy jacket of a beer-brewer. Bra. 'Tis a good gentle audience, and I hope The boys will come one day ...
— The Life of Mansie Wauch - Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself • David Macbeth Moir
... may well ask whether that old dried-up otomy, who ought to grin in a glass case for folks to stare at, be kith and kin of such a bang-up cove as your fancy man, Luke," said Turpin, laughing—"but i' faith he is." ...
— Rookwood • William Harrison Ainsworth
... Far gone, i' faith, thought I. Presently I went to the door, and, shoring up one of the posts with my shoulder, looked out upon the cool, white ...
— Such is Life • Joseph Furphy
... in very gracious fooling last night, when thou spokest of Pigrogromotus, of the Vapians passing the equinoctial of Queubus; 't was very good i' faith."—SIR ANDREW AGUE-CHEEK. ...
— Home as Found • James Fenimore Cooper
... in the street knows he has been with Navarre. For, mark you, all France has been wondering these many months where St. Quentin was coming out. His movements do not go unnoted like a yokel's. But, i' faith, he is not dull; he understands that well enough. Nay, 'tis my belief he came into the city in pure effrontery to show them how much he dared. He is a bold blade, your duke. And, mon dieu! it had ...
— Helmet of Navarre • Bertha Runkle
... that soul of yours, Could you play me false who loved you so? Some slights if a certain heart endures Yet it feels, I would have your fellows know! I' faith, I perceive not why I should care To break a silence that suits them best, But the thing grows somewhat hard to bear When I find a Giotto ...
— Introduction to Robert Browning • Hiram Corson |
