Pence Quotes
23 quotes by 21 authors
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"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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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"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
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Who does not see that . . . the same authority which can force a citizen to contribute three pence only of his property for…
— James Madison
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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
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Few are aware that they want any thing, except pounds schillings and pence.
— Augustus William Hare
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I have but nine-pence in ready money, but I can draw for a thousand pounds.
— Joseph Addison
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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
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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
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I wish I had only offered you a sovereign instead of ten pounds. Give me back nine pounds, Jane; I’ve a use for it.' 'And…
— Charlotte Bronte
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The man is a humbug — a vulgar, shallow, self-satisfied mind, absolutely inaccessible to the complexities and delicacies of the real world. He has the…
— C.S. Lewis
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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
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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
21 authors contributed a total of 23 Pence Quotes as follows: