Sixpence Quotes

#1. Whoso has sixpence is sovereign (to the length of sixpence) over all men; commands cooks to feed him, philosophers to teach him, kings to mount guard over him,to the length of sixpence.

Thomas Carlyle

#2. I think with Shakespeare you can be required to do absolutely anything at the turn of a sixpence - suddenly you go into a battle, suddenly you utter something passionate.

Ian McKellen

#3. 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 give him sixpence. But the second time it'll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he'll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.

Bertolt Brecht

#4. It's amazing [ ... ] how perfectly honest people who would starve rather than steal sixpence, will steal books without compunction.

Jill Paton Walsh

#5. Dashed if I didn't receive a letter from him this morning! Yes, and what's more, I had to pay sixpence for it, which I'd as lief not have done. It ain't that I grudge sixpence, but what I mean is, why the deuce should I have to give sixpence for a thing I'd as soon not have?

Georgette Heyer

#6. People seldom read a book which is given to them; and few are given. The way to spread a work is to sell it at a low price. No man will send to buy a thing that costs even sixpence without an intention to read it.

Samuel Johnson

#7. Without the shepherd's dog, the whole of the open mountainous land in Scotland would not be worth a sixpence.

James Hogg

#8. 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 local madhouse.

Jasper Fforde

#9. The transfer of three shillings and sixpence a day to every labourer would not increase the quantity of meat in the country. There is not at present enough for all to have a decent share. What would then be the consequence?

Thomas Malthus

#10. We could have saved sixpence. We could have saved fivepence. But at what cost?

Samuel Beckett

#11. Sing A Song Of Sixpence A Pocketful Of Lies

Kathleen Baldwin

#12. 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

#13. Homeopathy - an invention of the Father of Lies! I have tried it and found it wanting. I would swallow their whole doles' medicine chest for sixpence, and be sure of finding myself neither better nor worse for it.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

#14. Oh, with you, I could conquer the world - oh, with you I could catch hold of the moon like a little silver sixpence.

Katherine Mansfield

#15. She tops up the silver pot with the hot water, steeping every sixpence's worth of tannin out of those tea leaves floating in the water like bloated ants. Do ants bloat? She has to say she has never seen a bloated ant. The injustice of it.

Mark O'Flynn

#16. 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

#17. Beef also was difficult to be procured and exceedingly poor; the price nearly sixpence farthing per pound.

William Bligh

#18. The miserable man makes a peny of a farthing, and the liberall of a farthing sixe pence.
[The miserable man maketh a penny of a farthing, and the liberal of a farthing sixpence.]

George Herbert

#19. Some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast them amid certain surroundings, but they have always a nostalgia for a home they know not.

W. Somerset Maugham

#20. We want something desperately and we try to force the universe to give it up before it is ready. We want everything now. That is the devouring self.

Ruben Papian

#21. I'd had the quintessential liberal arts experience, and I came out of college not having a clue of what to do.

John Wesley

#22. Did you live here?" Leif asked. I nodded. "For two years"."Where did you stay?" "I had a room in Valek's suite." Leif shot me an incredulous look. "Boy, you worked fast.

Maria V. Snyder

#23. Be quietly confident.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#24. To my mind the most interesting thing in art is the
personality of the artist; and if that is singular, I am
willing to excuse a thousand faults.

W. Somerset Maugham

#25. The long-term vision is to replace, repair and regenerate failing tissues and organs with the materials of tissues and organs. It's still 'out there,' but it's possible to put together a grant proposal now that doesn't sound completely crazy.

Richard Wagner

#26. The race isn't over until the race is won!

Tommy Steele