Sixpence Quotes

12 quotes by 12 authors

A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he'll… — Bertolt Brecht
The Penguin books are splendid value for sixpence, so splendid that if other publishers had any sense they would combine against them and suppress them. — George Orwell
Listening to a speech by [Neville] Chamberlain is like paying a visit to Woolworth's, everything in its place and nothing above sixpence. — Aneurin Bevan
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
Look around you. Your world-hosts are all in mutiny, in confusion, destitution; on the eve of fiery wreck and madness! They will not march farther… — Thomas Carlyle
Beef also was difficult to be procured and exceedingly poor; the price nearly sixpence farthing per pound. — William Bligh
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
Reality TV was to me the worst form of entertainment--the modern equivalent of paying sixpence to watch lunatics howling at the wall down at the… — Jasper Fforde
I would not be you for a kingdom.' The remark was too naÃ¯ve to rouse anger; I merely said - 'Very good.' 'And what would… — Charlotte Bronte
I've been thinking about it a great deal, and it seems to me that although one sixpence is as good as another sixpence, not twenty… — George MacDonald
I think with Shakespeare you can be required to do absolutely anything at the turn of a sixpence - suddenly you go into a battle,… — Ian Mckellen
Without the shepherd's dog, the whole of the open mountainous land in Scotland would not be worth a sixpence. — James Hogg

Who Wrote These Sixpence Quotes

12 authors contributed a total of 12 Sixpence Quotes as follows: