"Metier" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Late Physician and Ten Thousand a Year. He lived upon the reputation which these brought him, though they were published, the first as long ago as 1830 and the other only ten years later. Like many other authors, he fancied himself capable of things far better than belonged to his true metier; and among the books in my father's library is one called The Moral and Intellectual Development of the Present Age—a thin volume, despite its portentous and thundering title—it carries the gloss, in Warren's handwriting, "the fruit of many ...
— Hawthorne and His Circle • Julian Hawthorne
... doing this or that The Lord each man endows. Some men are best for pushing pens, And some for pushing plows; And oh, the many many more That should be tending cows! Chacun son metier: Les vaches bien gardees. ...
— A line-o'-verse or two • Bert Leston Taylor
... upon the stage, Orbassan has but to wave his hand and an attendant advances boldly, stoops, picks up the gage of battle, and resumes his former position. That is thought to be a very simple duty. But to accomplish it without provoking the mirth of the audience is le sublime du metier—le ...
— A Book of the Play - Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character • Dutton Cook |
