"Resign" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "We must resign ourselves to the will of Heaven," said the Sultan. "Yet I will not recall the favor I had destined for you. Send me the wife that has coal-black ...
— Frivolous Cupid • Anthony Hope
... who holds an office, is going behind hand in his studies, say to him kindly, "You have not time to get your lessons, and I am afraid it is owing to the time you spend in helping me. Now if you wish to resign your office, so as to have a little more time for your lessons, you can. In fact, I think you ought to do it. You may try it for a day or two, and I will notice how you recite, and then ...
— The Teacher - Or, Moral Influences Employed in the Instruction and - Government of the Young • Jacob Abbott
... your fate, then, in mine, love; Sorrow and sighing resign: Life is too short to repine, love, Link your fair ...
— Victorian Songs - Lyrics of the Affections and Nature • Various
... distaste for the practice of his profession. Werther finds the ambassador intolerable; and a public insult to which, as a commoner, he is subjected at a social gathering of petty nobility, drives him to resign his post. After a few months' residence with a prince, whose company in the end he finds uncongenial, he is irresistibly drawn to the scenes of his former happiness and misery. But in the interval an event happens which ...
— The Youth of Goethe • Peter Hume Brown
... altogether beyond me. Of one thing I am resolved, whether we take Limerick or not—and I own I see but small chance of it—I shall exchange, if possible, into a regiment serving in Flanders. If not, I shall resign my commission. ...
— Orange and Green - A Tale of the Boyne and Limerick • G. A. Henty
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