"Devoir" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... was not without some tincture of patriotism; but it was resolvable into two parts: a preference for life among his fellow-countrymen, and a barren point of honour. In England, he could comfort himself by the reflection that "he had been taken while loyally doing his devoir," without any misgiving as to his conduct in the previous years, when he had prepared the disaster of Agincourt by wasteful feud. This unconsciousness of the larger interests is perhaps most happily exampled ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 3 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson
... thy curse, my son, let it light on me: Only fetch thou the kids hither, as I bid thee, Do thou thy true devoir, ...
— A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. II • Robert Dodsley
... service, I fondly concluded that my little devoir was finished for the day, and that I might now retire to collect my agitated nerves in quiet, but at the porch I was requested to visit an old woman who was lying in the poor-house, in the last stage of a dropsy. The only entrance to her chamber, or rather, her loft, was by an upright ladder ...
— Confessions of an Etonian • I. E. M.
... are so much one's own,—the tall trees of Christ's, the groves of Magdalen! The halls deserted, and with open doors, inviting one to slip in unperceived, and pay a devoir to some Founder, or noble or royal Benefactress (that should have been ours) whose portrait seems to smile upon their over-looked beadsman, and to adopt me for their own. Then, to take a peep in by the way at the butteries, and sculleries, redolent of antique hospitality: the ...
— The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, Volume 2 • Charles Lamb
... not be confronted by a thousand, nor indeed could a whole tribe oppose him, and by Allah, I have been deficient in knightly devoir for not doing him honour; however, it was not to be save on such wise." But the youth ceased not faring through days and nights for the whole of four months, unknowing the while when he should reach a place wherein to take ...
— Supplemental Nights, Volume 5 • Richard F. Burton
... unbeliever and heathen hound are a proper description for the best of them, as being traitor alike to their God and to the laws of chivalry; and devoutly do I trust that I shall meet with them in the front rank of our army, beside our standard, or elsewhere, and have an open field to my devoir against them, both as the enemies of our Lady and the holy saints, and as, by their evil customs, more expressly my own. Meanwhile you have time to seat yourself and receive my homage, and I will be bound to you for despatching this foolish ceremony with as little waste and delay of ...
— Waverley Volume XII • Sir Walter Scott
... virtues, unless they have their origin and consecration in private and domestic virtues, are but the virtues of the theatre. He who has not a loving heart for his child, cannot pretend to have any true love for humanity.—Jules Simon's LE DEVOIR.] ...
— Character • Samuel Smiles
... parley" said Minaya, "ponder well. "In that the king desired it, no wondrous thing befell," That wherever we might find him we might seek him in his way, As to our King and Master, our high devoir to pay. Haply we may desire what good to him shall seem. Nigh to the river Tagus that is a noble stream, If so my lord desire it, we ...
— The Lay of the Cid • R. Selden Rose and Leonard Bacon
... a Dieu, mon premier devoir est d'offrir a votre Majeste l'hommage de ma reconnaissance pour la genereuse assistance qu'elle nous a donnee, a moi et a tous les miens et que la Providence vient de couvrir d'un succes complet, puisque j'apprends ...
— The Letters of Queen Victoria, Vol 2 (of 3), 1844-1853 • Queen Victoria
... she to King Arthur, "Now is it my devoir to tell you plainly of my errand; nor might none of the knights here within have drawn forth the quarrel save only he; and you held me in covenant how he that should draw it forth should do that which I shall require of him, ...
— High History of the Holy Graal • Unknown
... conscription to fight European wars a contention hotly denied by the Liberals. The Conservative campaign managers made a working arrangement with the Nationalists as to candidates and helped liberally in circulating Bourassa's newspaper, Le Devoir. On the back "concessions" of Ontario a quieter but no less effective campaign was carried on against the domination of Canadian politics by a French Roman Catholic province and a French Roman Catholic Prime Minister. In vain the Liberals appealed to national unity ...
— The Canadian Dominion - A Chronicle of our Northern Neighbor • Oscar D. Skelton
... J'avois envie de vous charger d'examiner l'affaire, afin de savoir si je ne risquerois rien a plaider; mais je crois devoir vous dispenser de ce travail: je ne suis pas ...
— A Selection from the Comedies of Marivaux • Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux |
