farthing quotes

I should think myself a very bad woman, if I had done what I do for a farthing less.

-Joseph Addison
  The Drummer, act1, sc.1.

Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of themshall not fall ontheground without your Father.But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew10:29^31.

And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing. And he called unto him his disciples, and saith unto them,Verily I say unto you,Thatthispoor widow hath cast more in, thanall they which have cast into the treasury: For all they did cast in oftheirabundance; but sheof her want did cast inall that she had, even all her living.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Mark12:42^4.

Mr Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture truly like me, and not flatter me at all; but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts, and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never paya farthing for it.

- Oliver Cromwell
  Remark to Sir Peter Lely, who was about to paint his portrait. Quoted in H  Walpole Anecdotes of Painting in England, vol.3 (1763).