Shillings Quotes

22 Shillings quotes by 20 unique authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can never be spent. — Benjamin Franklin
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
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
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
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
"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
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
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
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
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
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
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
How 'bout we make it three shillings and we forget the name. — Johnny Depp
For I am convinced, that the authors of this law would never obtain an act to raise so trifling a sum as it must do,… — John Dickinson

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