Shillings Quotes
22 quotes by 20 authors
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To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin is wood and…
— J. B. Priestley
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I once bought a Manchester United hat, which I think was 12 shillings, and somebody ran up behind me and pulled it off and just…
— Steven Morrissey
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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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Pressure is working down the pit. Pressure is having no work at all. Pressure is trying to escape relegation on 50 shillings a week. Pressure…
— Bill Shankly
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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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It has been said that an engineer is a man who can do for ten shillings what any fool can do for a pound; if…
— Nevil Shute
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Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall…
— Henry Mayhew
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A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can never be spent.
— Benjamin Franklin
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In London, before I set out, I had paid one shilling; another was now demanded, so that upon the whole, from London to Richmond, the…
— Karl Philipp Moritz
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To cash paid for saddlery, a letter case, maps, glasses, etc etc etc. for the use of my Command: 29 pounds 13 shillings and sixpence...…
— George Washington
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In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Remember, that money is of the prolific, generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more, and so on. Five shillings turned…
— Benjamin Franklin
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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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To define it rudely but not ineptly, engineering is the art of doing for 10 shillings what any fool can do for a pound
— Duke of Wellington
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A working woman could save a few shillings a week, and then every five weeks she'd come in and we'd cut her hair. She could…
— Vidal Sassoon
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I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air -- or as free as an income of eleven shillings…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Of the seven days God gave to us in a week, He said to take six, and use them for our business. Yet we think…
— Charles Spurgeon
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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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In the church is a memorial to Mrs. Sarah Hill, who bequeathed 1 pound annually, to be divided at Easter, between two boys and two…
— Jerome K. Jerome
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How 'bout we make it three shillings and we forget the name.
— Johnny Depp
Who Wrote These Shillings Quotes
20 authors contributed a total of 22 Shillings Quotes as follows: