“I knew once a very covetous, sordid fellow [perhaps William Lowndes], who used to say, `Take care of the pence, for the pounds will take care of themselves.'”
Lord Chesterfield
“Through life's dark road his sordid way he wends; an incarnation of fat dividends”
Charles Sprague
“The public is only receiving one side of the story as all of the charges in their most sordid representation.”
Merle Smith
“England has the most sordid literary scene I've ever seen. They all meet in the same pub. This guy's writing a foreword for this person. They all have to give radio programs, they have to do all this just in order to scrape by. They're all scratching each other's backs.”
William S. Burroughs
“Howard has to explain his involvement in this sordid affair. John Howard can no longer step back and say he wasn't involved.”
Simon Crean
“But the same servant went out, and found one of his fellowservants, which owed him an hundred pence: and he laid hands on him, and took him by the throat, saying, Pay me that thou owest.”
Bible
“A penny saved is two pence clear, A pin a day's a groat a year”
Benjamin Franklin
