"Well-off" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... be clever enough, if put to the test. But he's well-off, and takes life easily. You've got a good master, Jerry; ...
— The Queen's Scarlet - The Adventures and Misadventures of Sir Richard Frayne • George Manville Fenn
... Osvif's household. They were talkative like their mother, but ill liked by people; yet were upheld greatly by the sons of Osvif. At Tongue there lived a man named Thorarin, son of Thorir Saeling (the Voluptuous). He was a well-off yeoman, a big man and strong. He had very good land, but less of live stock. Osvif wished to buy some of his land from him, for he had lack of land but a multitude of live stock. So this then came about that Osvif bought of the land of Thorarin all the tract from Gnupaskard ...
— Laxdaela Saga - Translated from the Icelandic • Anonymous
... right. Fellers like you make me tired. Grabbin' every chance to curry favor with rich folks! Wonder you didn't tell her you drove a fish-cart and wanted her trade! As for me, I'm independent. Don't make no difference to me how well-off a person is. They're human, just the same as I am, and I don't toady to 'em. If they want to talk they can send for me. I'll wait ...
— The Rise of Roscoe Paine • Joseph C. Lincoln
... the language of the messieurs falls among the sweepings, if so many comfortably well-off writers fish for small fry, we, the good Provencals, toward the highest summits, raise the language ...
— Frederic Mistral - Poet and Leader in Provence • Charles Alfred Downer
... Mr. Lincoln had about money-making, as well as the significance of the expression "well-off" half a century or so ago, the following conversation, related by Judge Weldon, is ...
— Something of Men I Have Known - With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective • Adlai E. Stevenson |
