Pence Quotes

23 quotes by 21 authors

"What is your best, your very best, ale a glass?" "Two pence halfpenny," says the landlord, "is the price of the Genuine Stunning Ale." "Then,"… — Charles Dickens
My opinion is that there would never have been an infidel, if there had never been a priest. The artificial structures they have built on… — Thomas Jefferson
The people of the U.S. owe their Independence & their liberty, to the wisdom of descrying in the minute tax of 3 pence on tea,… — James Madison
My mother, she had a very good attitude toward money. I'm very grateful for the fact that we had to learn to save. I used… — Gemma Arterton
Keep God's covenant in your trials; hold you by His blessed word, and sin not; flee anger, wrath, grudging, envying, fretting; forgive a hundred pence… — Samuel Rutherford
It is not doubted, and you know it, that Ireland and all those islands which have received the faith, belong to the Church of Rome;… — Pope Adrian IV
After the war people said, 'If you can plan for war, why can't you plan for peace?' When I was 17, I had a letter… — Tony Benn
Can't you see it all makes perfect sense, expressed in dollars and cents, pounds shillings and pence, can't you see it all; makes perfect sense — Roger Waters
If the 'Principle of Relativity' in an extreme sense establishes itself, it seems as if even Time would become discontinuous and be supplied in atoms,… — Oliver Lodge
"Write that down," the King said to the jury, and the jury eagerly wrote down all three dates on their slates, and then added them… — Lewis Carroll
Who does not see that . . . the same authority which can force a citizen to contribute three pence only of his property for… — James Madison
I wouldn't wish the eighties on anyone, it was the time when all that was rotten bubbled to the surface. If you were not at… — Derek Jarman
Few are aware that they want any thing, except pounds schillings and pence. — Augustus William Hare
I have but nine-pence in ready money, but I can draw for a thousand pounds. — Joseph Addison
I knew once a very covetous, sordid fellow [perhaps William Lowndes], who used to say, `Take care of the pence, for the pounds will take… — Lord Chesterfield
The man who truly and disinterestedly enjoys any one thing in the world, for its own sake, and without caring two-pence what other people say… — C.S. Lewis
I wish I had only offered you a sovereign instead of ten pounds. Give me back nine pounds, Jane; Iâ€™ve a use for it.' 'And… — Charlotte Bronte
The man is a humbug â€” a vulgar, shallow, self-satisfied mind, absolutely inaccessible to the complexities and delicacies of the real world. He has the… — C.S. Lewis
In the playground, I always made people laugh; I used to charge them three pence for an impression of a teacher. It kept me in… — Sue Townsend
During the war, my mother used to take me to the local repertory theatre on a Monday night, and we used to get two seats… — Geraldine McEwan

Who Wrote These Pence Quotes

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