"Palter" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... fastidious as to the means by which they reach their end. Though they might have preferred to hew their way to their design with a high hand, and to put down all opposition by bought or bullied majorities, backed by the strong arm of the nation, yet they never refuse to compromise and palter when the path to success lies through stratagems or frauds. The skill in this instance, as in all others, by which they propose to win everything under the show of yielding somewhat, is worthy of Machiavel or of Lucifer, and is far above the capacity of the paltry Northern ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. II, No. 8, June 1858 • Various
... like all theorists," Furley declared moodily, stopping to relight his pipe. "We create and destroy on palter with amazing facility. When it comes to ...
— The Devil's Paw • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... forbid that I should accuse you of intentional wrong; but the besetting sin of a philanthropist, it appears to me, is apt to be a moral obliquity. His sense of honor ceases to be the sense of other honorable men. At some point of his course—I know not exactly when or where—he is tempted to palter with the right, and can scarcely forbear persuading himself that the importance of his public ends renders it allowable to throw aside his private conscience. Oh, my dear friend, beware this error! If you meditate ...
— The Blithedale Romance • Nathaniel Hawthorne
... why ask? Since murder was that man's intention, why should he palter with small details? But mark you one thing: in my fall the world shall see how the ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain |
