
Top 15 Bailiff Quotes
#1. I had been working for eight years and all I had to show for it was this horrible debt. At one point we had the bailiff at the door.
Tom Felton
#2. Nearly every aspect of life was subject to some measure of legal restraint. At a local level, you could be fined for letting your ducks wander in the road, for misappropriating town gravel, for having a guest in your house without a permit from the local bailiff.
Bill Bryson
#3. From a poor man, poor in Time, I was suddenly lifted up into a vast revenue; I could see no end of my possessions; I wanted some steward, or judicious bailiff, to manage my estates in Time for me.
Charles Lamb
#4. SANSHO THE BAILIFF (1954) 'Without compassion a man is no longer human.' So states Taira.
Steven Jay Schneider
#6. You have no idea how humiliating it was, as a boy, to suddenly have all your clothes, your toys, snatched by the bailiff. I mean we were a middle-class family, it's not as if it was happening up and down the street. It made me ashamed, I felt dirty.
John Le Carre
#7. Our castle is not imposing, but is well built, and surrounded by a very fine garden. I live in the bailiff's house.
Franz Schubert
#8. If we are industrious, we shall never starve; for, at the workingman's house hunger looks in, but dares not enter. Nor will the bailiff or the constable enter, for industry pays debts, while despair increaseth them.
Benjamin Franklin
#9. Last year I think I made more from my Image books than anywhere else.
Robert Kirkman
#10. Speak to me, fair maid!
Speak and do not go!
What sorrows have your eyes inlaid
With such black woe?
My dam is buried deep
Dark are my father's halls
And carrion fowl and wolves now keep
Their ruined walls
From: The Lay of Andomian and Beruldh
Alison Croggon
#11. In this they have the support of Blake, a man so sensitive to any trace of "Natural Religion" that he is said to have blamed some verses of Wordsworth's for a bowel complaint which almost killed him.
Geoffrey H. Hartman
#12. George's eyes lit up as she considered that there might be a mystery to solve.
Carolyn Keene
#13. When I set my mind on something I am a force to be reckoned with. Today I will be gravity - subtle, but powerful and undeniable.
Ellen Hopkins
#14. I've had guns pointed at me, and I can tell you that it's not the right place to be standing if some is really mad at you!
Stephen Richards
#15. Global warming experts are saying that sea levels could rise 20 feet. Apparently their strategy for surviving this is to stand on top of a pile of government research grant money.
Fred Thompson
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