paid quotes

The more women are paid, the less eager theyare to marry.

- Susan Faludi
  Backlash (UK edn), ch.2,'Man Shortages and Barren Wombs'.

The man who offers a bribe gives awaya little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has just paid for a woman.

- (Henry) Graham Greene
  The Comedians, pt.1, ch.4.

I paid the prices of life Standing where Rome immortal heard October's strife, A war poet whose right of honour cuts falsehood like a knife. 375

- Ivor Gurney
c.1922  'Poem for End'.

'I mean that you paid us more than if you'd been telling the truth,' he explained blandly,'and enough more to make it all right.'

- (Samuel) Dashiell Hammett
  The Maltese Falcon,'The Black Bird'.

   We all know how the size of sums of money appears to vary in a remarkable wayaccording as they are being paid in or paid out.

- SirJulian Sorell Huxley
  Essays of a Biologist, ch.5.

Patron.Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence, and is paid with flattery.

- Samuel known as Dr Johnson Johnson
  A Dictionary of the English Language.

To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin is wood and catgut, that Hamlet is so much paper and ink. For a shilling the Bruddersford United AFC offered you Conflict and Art.

-J(ohn) B(oynton) Priestley
  The Good Companions, bk.1, ch.1.

I paid for this microphone.

- Ronald Wilson Reagan
  To a New Hampshire moderator who tried to keep President Reagan from speaking on behalf of other candidates. Reported in Congressional Quarterly, 23 May.

Un sourire est souvent l'essentiel. On est paye   par un sourire. On est re  compense   par un sourire.On est anime par un sourire. Et la qualite   d'un sourire peut faire que l'on meure. A smile is often the key thing.One is paid with a smile. One is rewarded with a smile.One is brightened by a smile. And the quality of a smile can make one die.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupe  ry
  Lettre a'   un otage.

Paying for what she doesn't get rankles so dreadfully with Louisa; I can't make her see that it's one of the preliminary steps to getting what you haven't paid for.

- Edith Newbold ne  e Jones Wharton
  The House of Mirth, bk.2, ch.2.