"Vaut" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... forme within was rude and strong, Lyke an huge cave hewne out of rocky clifte, From whose rough vaut the ragged breaches hong Embossed with massy gold of glorious guifte, And with rich metall loaded every rifte, That heavy ruine they did seeme to threatt; And over them Arachne high did lifte Her cunning web, and spred her subtile nett, Enwrapped in fowle smoke and clouds ...
— Six Centuries of English Poetry - Tennyson to Chaucer • James Baldwin
... consequence of rational reflection, or something analogous to this (as moving threads), after those good things held out to it, the attainment of which would be a sufficient reward for its ceaseless cares and troubles. The matter being taken thus, everyone would rather have long ago said, "Le jeu ne vaut pas la chandelle," and have gone out. But, on the contrary, everyone guards and defends his life, like a precious pledge entrusted to him under heavy responsibility, under infinite cares and abundant misery, even under which life is tolerable. The wherefore and the why, the reward ...
— Introduction to the Science of Sociology • Robert E. Park
... distinguishing impures from modest women, forbade the former to wear golden girdles, then in fashion. This prohibition was vain, and the virtuous part of the sex consoled themselves by the testimony of their conscience, whence the old proverb: "Bonne renommee vaut mieux ...
— Paris As It Was and As It Is • Francis W. Blagdon
... some bears to shoot in winter, and izard (a species of chamois) and capercailzie to pursue in autumn; but the "sportsmen" are many and the game few, and the way to their haunts lies by bad and unfrequented paths; so that "le jeu ne vaut pas la chandelle." To the botanist and the geologist, however, there is a splendid field, which, varying in richness according to the locality, is more or less rich everywhere; and besides these, the entomologist ...
— Twixt France and Spain • E. Ernest Bilbrough
... The whimsical ordination of Nectarius is attested by Sozomen, (l. vii. c. 8;) but Tillemont observes, (Mem. Eccles. tom. ix. p. 719,) Apres tout, ce narre de Sozomene est si honteux, pour tous ceux qu'il y mele, et surtout pour Theodose, qu'il vaut mieux travailler a le detruire, qu'a le soutenir; an ...
— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 3 • Edward Gibbon
... non pas pour toujours, j'espere; pas meme pour long temps. Cependant, ne vous genez pas, je vous prie, en repondant a une lettre qui ne vaut—qui ne reclame pas meme—aucune reponse: tandis que vous me croyez votre ...
— Letters of Edward FitzGerald to Fanny Kemble (1871-1883) • Edward FitzGerald
... little different. He says the king exclaimed: "Ne vaut-il pas mieux employer son argent a cela ...
— Sir William Herschel: His Life and Works • Edward Singleton Holden
... neglected. When the Duchess of Montespan asked the famous Louison D'Arquien, by way of insult, as she pressed too near her, 'Comment alloit le metier?' 'Depuis que les dames s'en melent,' (replied the courtesan with no improper spirit,) 'il ne vaut ...
— Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale) (2nd ed.) (2 vols.) • Mrs. Hester Lynch Piozzi
... annoyed with Napoleon for having laid it down that apres soixante ans, un homme ne vaut rien. The rash dictum had certainly no application to himself. It is true that, under the strain of the long tropical years, his bodily health declined as he approached the age of sixty. But his mental activity, his marvellous receptivity, were not merely maintained, but seemed steadily to advance. ...
— Some Diversions of a Man of Letters • Edmund William Gosse
... the little inn; but the most severe blow of all was yet in store for him; for his wife died not long after, leaving him with five children. "Ainsi vous voyez, Monsieur, que j'ai connu le malheur. Au reste, Mons. de Muy m'a donne la clef de ce chateau, et cela me vaut quelque chose; car il y a du monde qui viennent quelquefois le voir." Then, relapsing into his habitual strain of complaint, he ended with, "Oh mon pauvre cher maitre! ce beau, ce grand chateau! ah, j'ai tout perdu!" One bright moment, however, as he exultingly remarked, occurred during his compulsory ...
— Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone - Made During the Year 1819 • John Hughes
... brother Charles 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 and ...
— Brittany & Its Byways • Fanny Bury Palliser
... 'tis the road to Avernus, n'est ce pas vrai donc, ma belle? There let them bind us or burn us, mais le jeu vaut la chandelle. Am I your lord or your vassal? Are you my sun or my torch? You, when I look at you, dazzle, yet when ...
— Poems • Adam Lindsay Gordon
... 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 ...
— The Library • Andrew Lang
... bien! votre bonne mine est un Perou. Tournez-vous un peu, que je vous considere encore; allons, monsieur, vous vous moquez; il n'y a point de plus grand seigneur que vous a Paris; voila une taille qui vaut toutes les dignites possibles, et notre affaire est infaillible absolument infaillible." His genius for intrigue is certainly admirable, and, were that a sufficient claim for glory, we would chime in ...
— A Selection from the Comedies of Marivaux • Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux
... l'ordinaire, une croute de spath calcaire, au moyen de la quelle elles sont accrues a la roche mere; ou pour mieux dire la croute spatheuse fait l'intermede entre le silex, et la roche calcaire, par ou se fait le passage de l'une a l'autre. Mais ceci ne vaut que de boules de silex entierement formees. C'est dont on peut meme se convaincre a la vue, par beaucoup de pierres dont le pave de la ville de Cracovie est compose. Mais la, ou le silex n'est pas ...
— Theory of the Earth, Volume 1 (of 4) • James Hutton
... of the Laboratory! The Columbia Professor of Experimental Evolution has at his disposal the most complete instrument of biological research that modern ingenuity has yet produced; and it's not only in theology or politics que Paris vaut bien une messe! There was no trouble about finding a candidate; but the whole thing turned on Lanfear's decision, since it was tacitly understood that, by Weyman's wish, he was to select his successor. And what a cry there was when he selected ...
— Tales Of Men And Ghosts • Edith Wharton
... parler, 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 mme j'ai bien peur que tu ne sois ...
— Le Petit Chose (part 1) - Histoire d'un Enfant • Alphonse Daudet
... may otherwise be supplied, but the loss of time never recovered; nay, farther yet, tho we were sure to obtain all that we had a mind to, tho we were sure of getting never so much by continuing the game, yet when the light of life is so near going out, and ought to be so precious, le jeu ne vaut pas la chandelle, the play is not worth the expense of the candle; after having been long tossed in a tempest, if our masts be standing, and we have still sail and tackling enough to carry us to our port, it is no matter for the want of streamers ...
— The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I • Francis W. Halsey |
