Quotes About Sinecure

As for literature It gives no man a sinecure. And no one knows, at sight, a masterpiece. And give up verse, my boy, There's nothing in it.

He wondered what could have possibly happened with his predecessor to make her cross the street in tears. Had it been him they would have been tears of boredom. He remembered what his mother had told him when he was a child: "Waiting is doing what you don't want until you get to do what you want." He would bide his time in the new sinecure, waiting for Francis.

decididos a no aprender más de lo necesario para cazar una sinecura, pobres diablos cuya fermentación de espíritu no era más que un brote de sangre que desaparecería con la juventud. Poco a poco, este desdén se hizo extensivo a sus amigos cabalistas, espíritus huecos hinchados de viento, atiborrados de palabras que no entendían y que regurgitaban en fórmulas.

As for literatureIt gives no man a sinecure.And no one knows, at sight, a masterpiece."And give up verse, my boy,There's nothing in it."

I believe, all the royal emoluments incident to the Cinque Port territories become by assignment his. By some writers this office is called a sinecure.

I want to have things clear,' I said. 'You're offering me a sinecure.' 'I'm not sure what that is,' said Madge, 'but I expect it's that.' 'A sinecure is when you get money for doing nothing,' I said. 'But isn't that exactly what you've always wanted?' said Madge.

In the United States they have the implicit, never mentioned, promise to go work for a bank at a later date with a sinecure offering, say $5 million a year, if they are seen favorably by the industry.