"Infame" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... say, then: Wo to Philosophism, that it destroyed Religion, what it called 'extinguishing the abomination (ecraser 'l'infame)'? Wo rather to those that made the Holy an abomination, and extinguishable; wo at all men that live in such a time of world-abomination and world-destruction! Nay, answer the Courtiers, it was Turgot, it was Necker, with their mad innovating; it was the Queen's want of etiquette; ...
— The French Revolution • Thomas Carlyle
... there, and Lord S[tewart], to hide his confusion, and with an ill-disguised anger, turned to Lafayette and said that the Allies would not treat until Napoleon should be delivered to them. "Je m'etonne, my lord, qu'en faisant une proposition si infame et si deshonorante, vous vous plaisez de vous adresser au prisonnier d'Olmuetz," was the dignified answer of that virtuous patriot and ever ardent ...
— After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819 • Major W. E Frye
... etrange erra sur cette forme vile; L'affreux ventre devint un globe lumineux; Et les pattes, changeant en spheres d'or leurs noeuds, S'allongerent dans l'ombre en grands rayons de flamme. Iblis leva les yeux; et tout a coup l'infame, Ebloui, se courba sous l'abime vermeil; Car Dieu, de ...
— La Legende des Siecles • Victor Hugo
... ephemeral. So were the pamphlets, great and small. His political economy was that of an orthodox popularizer, and in no sense epoch. making. His dramas are negligible. His more serious novels, Madelon (1863), L'infame (1867), the three that form the trilogy of the Vieille Roche (1866), and Le roman d'un brave homme (1880)—-a kind of counterblast to the view of the French workman presented in Zola's Assommoir—-contain striking and amusing scenes, no doubt, but ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia |
