Twenty Shillings

Famous quotes containing the words twenty and/or shillings:

    “All women, from the countess to the cook-maid, are put into high good humor with themselves when a man is taken with them at first sight. And be they ever so plain, they will find twenty good reasons to defend the judgment of such a man.”
    —Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)

    “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 shillings a week to twelve thousand a year. They find their own dreams; but I look after the drainage.”
    —George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)